What’s the Relation of Man to its Technical Systems?

Meanwhile I compiled a more detailed argumentation (May 2020)

• Die Menschen und ihre technischen Systeme. LIFIS Online, 19.05.2020.
• Men and their technical systems. Trimmed English version, containing part of the argumentation, prepared for the TFC 2020.
• Человек и его технические системы.
  Differently trimmed Russian version, containing another part of the argumentation, prepared for the TDS 2020.
  • German retranslation
• Technical systems and their purposes.
  Another differently trimmed English version, prepared for the DAT 2020.
  • German retranslation

There is a second text on a similar topic

• TRIZ und Transformationen sozio-technischer und sozio-ökologischer Systeme. LIFIS Online, 29.06.2020.
  • English Translation, submitted to the TRIZ Review

Moreover there are other argumentations available, e.g.,

• A. Lyubomirsky, S. Litvin et al.: Trends of Engineering Evolution (2018)
  • https://www.triz-consulting.de/shop/triz-fachliteratur-buecher/trends-of-engineering-system-evolution
• M.S. Rubin: О связи комплекса законов развития систем с ЗРТС - On the connection between the Laws of Systems’ Evolution and the Laws of Evolution of Technical Systems (2019)
  • Russian Version supplied privately by the author
  • German Translation
• N. Shpakovsky: Tree of Evolution (2016)
  • https://www.amazon.com/Tree-Technology-Evolution-Nikolay-Shpakovsky/dp/1539892182
• N. Shpakovsky: Человек и Техническая Система - Man and Technical System (2003)
  • Russian Version in two parts
  • German Translation

Background

In the TRIZ Cup 2019/20, in one of the nominations the TRIZ laws of development of technical systems are referenced. Around this topic started a discussion about how these laws or trends are to be understood at all. In the discussion, the German-speaking debate on an adequate understanding of the notion “technology” and the Russian-speaking debate on these TRIZ development laws meet.

The discussion started with the qeuestion What is a technical system? in a facebook thread, documented elsewhere in my blog.

More material (in German)

• A reader with material compiled from a seminar in the winter term at Leipzig University.
• 16. Interdisciplinary Seminar on February 7, 2020 at Leipzig University.
• Comments to these texts (to be added)

Hans-Gert Gräbe, June 20, 2020 - last update