Abstract

Technologies exist because man exists. It is not possible to understand them unaffected by the meaning of their existence and how, through the history of cultures, human intelligence has been creating new forms of adaptation that have offered unique solutions to man’s problems. The technologies are not neutral. They reflect the man himself expressed through his talents and from his deepest contradictions and defects. Technology can be built to improve living conditions or to destroy and kill. Therefore, the sense of technological creation and the use of the manifestations of the techne´ is debated between the exercise of virtue, emanating from the permanent values that allow us to know how to be, the classic arete´ of virtuous life, and through the know-how related to techne´ (from Greek tέcnh, art, technique or trade) also understood as a skill to do something. Technology, as an awesome achievement that aims to serve mankind, is a tool that can be employed either virtuously or unethically. These technologies need to be incorporated into the daily life of men embedded within processes of humanization and inclusion, which consist of an ongoing reflection on how the technologies should be used. They should be understood not only as consumer goods, but as both responses to and symptoms of times of change, where the creators of these technologies are responsible for what they create. They are humanized in the sense.