Technophobics vrs technophiles

Technophilia and technophobia are the two extremes of the relationship between technology and society. The latter regards technology as destructive because it leads to a process of dehumanization and believes social reliance on technology is harmful. The former is a positive relationship, seeing it as a means to improve personal life and combat social problems.
What factors influence these decisions? The main reasons are related to the teacher's personal belief in technology's benefits, or lack thereof, rather than to a resistance to technology. This finding suggests that teachers are not really ‘technophobic’ and that institutions are perhaps overly ‘technophilic’ in their rush to obtain the latest innovations without considering the needs of teachers and students.
This talk will discuss differing and new relationships between artists/performers and their working methods and the tools they use. A focus will be placed on two extremes of the relationship between technology and society: technophobia and technophilia. Traditional creators are increasingly widening their practices and taking on new roles as artist-engineer, artist-technician, or artist-scientist, and some have begun to work with artificial intelligence. Is there still a distinction between artists and the tools they use? How are these new relationships and the approaches of both technophile and technophobe affecting traditional media, new forms, and contemporary audiences?