技术向善视域下老年数字困境的伦理症候与治理进路

Ethical Symptoms and Governance Approaches of the Elderly Digital Dilemma from the Perspective of Technology for Good

摘要: 随着当下数字技术的全面渗透，人口老龄化与数字化转型的交汇引发了深刻的社会伦理危机，深度数字鸿沟显著抑制老年消费。老年人的老化负向认知和消极老化态度起到了中介作用，且这一抑制作用在高龄、农村与经济欠发达地区的老年群体中更为明显，老年群体在享受技术红利的同时，面临着从“数字鸿沟”向“技术异化”演进的深层困境。这种困境的本质是资本逻辑对技术逻辑的僭越、工具理性对价值理性的挤压，导致技术从服务人的工具异化为统治人的力量。本文基于“技术向善”的价值导向，挖掘老年数字困境的异化表现，并从价值重塑、制度治理、技术治理和主体赋能四个方面提出治理进路，旨在构建全龄友好的数字包容社会，真正实现数字时代“人的自由全面发展”。

Abstract: With the comprehensive penetration of digital technologies, the convergence of population aging and digital transformation has triggered a profound social ethical crisis. The deep digital divide significantly suppresses elderly consumption, with negative aging cognition and pessimistic attitudes toward aging serving as mediating factors. Moreover, this suppression effect is more pronounced among the elderly in advanced age, rural areas, and less economically developed regions. While benefiting from technological dividends, the elderly are confronted with a deepening predicament evolving from the “digital divide” to “technological alienation”. The essence of this predicament lies in the usurpation of technological logic by capital logic and the suppression of value rationality by instrumental rationality, which turns technology from a tool serving humanity into a force dominating it. Grounded in the value orientation of “technology for good”, this paper uncovers the manifestations of alienation in the elderly digital dilemma and proposes governance approaches from four dimensions: value reshaping, institutional governance, technological governance, and subject empowerment. The aim is to build an age-friendly, digitally inclusive society and ultimately realize the “free and comprehensive development of human beings” in the digital era.