Psychological Implications of Modern Technologies: “Technofobia” versus “Technophilia”

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to present the psychological consequences, favourable or not, of the modern technologies. Modern technologies, also known as “new technology”, caused the appearance of the psychological ambivalence, because, modern technologies, generate, in the same measure, comfort and disasters. At the psycho-dynamic level, this ambivalence is expressed by technophilia (attraction to technology) and technophobia (rejection of technology). Technophilia and technophobia are the two extremes of the relationship between technology and the human being, but especially, between technology and society