Tension Analysis of the “Human-technology” Relationship in the Digital World

With the support of various information technologies, the digital world has been able to realize the seamless link between virtual and reality, mapping interaction and deep integration. With the continuous iterative progress of technology, the digital world will continue to improve, which will greatly promote mankind to enter a new era of digital survival. Through the investigation of the relationship between human and technology, we can reveal the impact of the digital world on human society and how to deal with it. Using the “human-technology” relationship framework in the philosophy of technology to analyze the composing technology of the digital world, it is found that in the digital world, there are four groups of tension in the “human-technology” relationship, namely, liberation and control in the background relationship, shielding and masking in the interpretation relationship, empowerment and alienation in the embodiment relations, and subversion and creation in the alterity relations. Under the tension of the “human-technology” relationship, suggestions should be made to regulate the future development of the digital world by eliminating the control of technology over humans, examining the ability of technology to deconstruct, regulating the alienation ability of technology, and creating rules for digital civilization.