经济学家舒马赫批判经济至上、效率至上的当代科技体系，提出了人文化的“适用技术”。学者们对适用技术的思想源起、内涵、特征、发展状况等方面展开了广泛的研究与讨论。适用技术经历了兴盛-衰落-再提倡的过程，具有人文、生态、经济、科技等方面的现实价值。

Schumacher criticized economic supremacy science and technology. He proposed humanistic Appropriate Technology. Scholars had debated Appropriate Technology’s ideological origin、connotation、Characteristic、development. Appropriate Technology had possessed waxed-waned-waxed, which had realistic value of humanity、ecology、economy and society.

国家社会科学基金“批判实在论哲学研究”(16FZX023)的阶段性研究成果。