Relationship Between Technology And Nature

Technology and Nature as allies: The Apple Watch didn’t fall far from the tree

In this essay I will demonstrate criticality towards binary opposition and explain how Apple Watch’s interactivity illustrates the complexity of relations between human, ‘nature’ and ‘technology’. I will define the qualities associated with words like ‘nature’, and ‘technology’, then give my conclusion as best I could.

The word Nature is in result of the Latin term ‘Natura’ which means, birth. Human perceives nature as something they are born with. Nature is a very broad topic is but understood to be, features and produce found on earth, this includes humans. Nature is the rudimentary characteristics of something, it is not man made, so all materials brought to

Technology further said to be behaviour in the form of systematic ruling (Dusek 2003: 32). In many instances it has been argued that “Mother Technology” is slow destroying Mother Nature. Humans accept deforestation and in turn allow technology as replacement, for E.g. housing developments and infrastructure. Industrialization is one other example of technology taking place of nature. Although industrialization has proven to be a positive aspect of technology, seeing large production of foods, clothing, tools etc. this has resulted in a polluted state, conveying an offensive act against nature. But technology seems to want to be one with nature or at least imitate it. As an example, houses are unnatural artefacts but swallows have been building nests and nets forever, nature produced natural light man built street lights. Technology replicates the nature of Mother Nature, so some might regard technology as artificial nature. As much as they are contradictory technology aims and aspires to be accessible

This Watch has a monitor which measures a person’s heart rate which is unnatural but healthy and informative to ones state of wellbeing, this means that naturalism also has it downfalls. In this day and age technology has been driven to a point of it lacking boundaries with human, but I believe boundaries are based on how one sets them, meaning human choose the way in which they would like to interact with the technological system. Between the Apple Watch and the user the boundaries are determined by the user, so there is no lack thereof. Apple Watch tells the user to exercise more, move more, it gives guides and directions it marks up communication from people within a distance but the question is do you need it to do all that or are you willing to do it on your