기술과 지식, 그리고 기식(技識) = 정보혁명의 국제정치학적 탐구를 위한 개념적 기초

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This paper traces the historical path of the nature of technology, and attempts to provide conceptual foundations for exploring the Information Revolution from the perspective of International Relations. In particular, this paper examines how the modern concept of technology had been formed within historical context, and especially in the age of information technology what kinds of transformation has been happening within the modem concept of technology. In terms of the properties of material products as 'artifacts,' first of all, the meaning of technology in the information age goes beyond the mere creation of tools and machines as hardware, and gets involved in the creation of semi-material products usually in the form of digital code. Second, in terms of human 'activities' for producing artifact, the meaning of technology in the information age includes both 'plan' and 'practice' in technological activities, which had been separated since the modem times, and opens new possibilities to rehabilitate the role of technological practice in relation to technological plan. Finally, in terms of 'knowledge,' which people utilize in creating artifact, the meaning of technology in the information age goes beyond the expansion of empirical and theoretical knowledge themselves, and reaches to the creation of a new category of knowledge that contributes the use or reproduction of those knowledge in more efficient ways. Based on these examination, this paper suggests technoledge, a compounded word of technology and knowledge, as a new term reflecting the conceptual nature of technology in the information age.