Technorealizm wobec społecznych konsekwencji techniki
Technorealism and the Social Consequences of Technology

Summary/Abstract: In the article, I review and analyze the axiological reflection on the role of technology insocial life, represented by philosophers whom I classify as techno-realists. Techno-realism is theintermediate position in the axiology of technology, between techno-pessimism and techno-optimism. I briefly present the history of this way of philosophizing. I cover the history of thethinking of techno-realists belonging to philosophy of culture and philosophy of technology,including Lewis Mumford, Martin Heidegger, Leszek Kołakowski, Langdon Winner, ShoshanaZuboff and Juval noi Hararri. Next, I discuss new ideas of techno-realists from the group ofphilosophers of engineering (including Carl Mitcham), as well as the views of practitioners/en-gineers. Techno-realism formulates balanced assessments of technological artifacts and thuscan provide people with arguments in their problematic encounters with the latest technologi-cal products, as well as encourage specific actions in social life in the era of the third modernity,especially in the education of children and youth.

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