2012 Volume 33 Pages 55-62
In this paper we discuss about several features of technology system based on the Niklas Luhmann’s theory of the social system. We define here technology system as a set of communications mediated by possible/impossible binary code. The technology system proposed here is not only targeting science based technologies but including more general technologies. We have as many technology systems as various views of the world. In this point of view a mechanical apparatus which is often misunderstood as technology itself is interpreted as a part of communications that constitute a technology system. Of course a mechanical apparatus, which shows concretely what is made possible, is very powerful technological communication. However, there is no difference between mechanical apparatus and other kind of technological communications. In this new point of view engineers are not the element of a technology system but belong to the environment for the system.
We define memories in technology system and records in technology system. The memory in technology system means that similar technological communications are repeated. There exists a selection pressure that is going to make technological system lose the memories. We discuss also innovation processes from this point of view. An innovation is a change of memory, or creation of new memory. The record in technology system means the communication that is fixed to a certain media. It is extremely
