Title

Politechnology: Manners Maketh Machine

Abstract

All entities possess etiquette.* From a human perspective, all objects and items with which we interact prove more or less useful with respect to the goal we wish to achieve. us, we find them more or less “polite” and useful to our purpose according to our own lights. e vast majority of the entities that exist in our natural environments came into being with absolutely no reference to human beings at all. us, they are largely neutral in terms of usage. For example, the rocks around us can be used effectively as weapons and much less effectively as modes of transport, but their human utility (and thus their etiquette from our perspective) is completely framed by our own perceptions and intentions. In more formal terms, the affordance between the human and the entity is unalloyed by any conscious shaping other than the intention of the immediate human user themself. If we are able to step away from our own anthropocentric perspective for just one moment, humans also are simply part of the environment, and they most frequently exhibit very poor environmental etiquette with respect to other entities, often destroying the world solely for their own gain. But we must surely absolve humans from singular blame because most living organisms seek to manipulate the environment for their own species-specific advantage also. However, as we can rarely escape our own egocentric assumptions for long, let us persist in our argument from a human perspective.

Publication Date

1-1-2010

Publication Title

Human-Computer Etiquette: Cultural Expectations and the Design Implications They Place on Computers and Technology

Number of Pages

351-362

Document Type

Article; Book Chapter

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1201/b10420-19

Socpus ID

85121557650 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85121557650

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