Until the mid-twentieth century, modern human greatly overlooked to technology’s damage as a poison because of focusing on its benefits as a remedy and an antidote to diseases. Interestingly, the 21st century technology and the achievements of humanity are accompanied by various problems called “side effects” in that text. The first criticisms of the destructive effects of technology were made by the existential philosopher Martin Heidegger. In Heidegger criticism, technology was held responsible for alienating human from authentic essence, for objectification and instrumentalization, and for the global problems experienced in 20th century. After Heidegger, analysis of technology and the dose of criticism have increased every day to mechanization, technologicalization, virtualization, simulation, globalization, dystopia and over the categories. Today, this analysis and criticism continues in a multi-dimensional manner. One of the effective critical analyses was presented in “poison” categories by John Naisbitt. Naisbitt suggested that it caused some kind of toxicity in areas of high technology. He identified six basic symptoms of technologically poisoned areas: Speed passion in everything from religion to feeding, worship of technology, blurring the distinction between real and fake, normalizing violence, loving technology like toys, living life both distant and frantic... In this article, the technologically intoxication thesis was analysed with an analytical method based on literature review. As a result, technology is a popular pharmakon that is devastated to old problems, but it is not possible to remove any side effects such as emergency and effective drugs. Technologically intoxication is the most obvious side effect associated with the diffusion of digital and techno-culture. Therefore, in this informatics revolution, which is directed to “from human to user, from tool to device”, both of approaches “technology as a pure benefit” or “technology as a detrimental addition” are reductive approaches and are insufficient to explain the phenomenon of technologically intoxication. Instead, the advantages of a holistic approach that is based on the power of explanation of “technology design as ontological entities interacting with human beings” and that deals with technology with side effects should be emphasized.

Technologically Intoxication, Side effects of Technology, Philosophy of Technology, Human-Technology Interaction