複数の技術の相互的構成としての技術革新

置き換えを棲み分けの失敗と理解する

抄録

This article rethink the technological innovation especially the Replacement, from viewpoint of the Situated Approach and the Actor-network theory (ANT). Based on the understanding that so called 'technology' and 'social' are the example of hybrid actor network, the appearance of new technology is one of reassembling the hybrid actor-network. As a result, so called 'social' change is observed when technological change was observed because the 'social' is hybrid actor-network, too. Understanding innovation like this way, we will be able to get out of the popularly notions such as 'technology push or demand pull' or 'interaction of technology and social'. There is only reassembling process of hybrid actor-network and the novelty of 'technology' is constituted by mutual shaping of 'technology's. Based on this view, the Replacement of technology is considered as failure of the Differentiation, i.e., the Replacement is one of the Differentiation.