Technology is the technical means people use to improve their surroundings. It is also a knowledge of using tools and machines to do tasks efficiently.
Technology – some definitions from the net
We use technology to control the world in which we live. Technology is people using knowledge, tools, and systems to make their lives easier and better.
People use technology to imrove their ability to do work. Through technology, people communicate better. Technology allows them to make more and better products. Our buildings are better through the use of technology. We travel in more comfort and speed as a result of technology. Yes, technology is everywhere and can make life better.
tech·nol·o·gy
1. a. The application of science, especially to industrial or commercial objectives. b. The scientific method and material used to achieve a commercial or industrial objective.
2. Electronic or digital products and systems considered as a group: a store specializing in office technology.
3. Anthropology. The body of knowledge available to a society that is of use in fashioning implements, practicing manual arts and skills, and extracting or collecting materials.
[Greek tekhnologi_, systematic treatment of an art or craft : tekhn_, skill + -logi_, -logy.]
technology
(Science: study) Industrial science; the science of systematic knowledge of the industrial arts, especially of the more important manufactures, as spinning, weaving, metallurgy, etc.
Technology is not an independent science, having a set of doctrines of its own, but consists of applications of the principles established in the various physical sciences (chemistry, mechanics, mineralogy, etc) to manufacturing processes.
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Technology (Gr. __________ < _____ "craftsmanship" + _____ "word, reckoning" + the suffix __) has more than one definition. One is the development and application of tools, machines, materials and processes that help to solve human problems. As a human activity, technology predates both science and engineering. It embodies the human knowledge of solving real problems in the design of standard tools, machines, materials or the process. Thus standardisation of design is an essential feature of technology.
Science, Engineering and Technology:
Science is the study of natural facts. Engineering is the application of the knowledge learned scientifically to develop products. Technology is use of the engineered product.
Example: Flow of electrons produces current, this is a fact or concept in science. When current is passed through a semiconductor device such as silicon or germanium, the mechanism is known as electronics. The production of an electronic device using the concept of electronics is known as electronics engineering. Computers are developed using electronics engineering. Using the computer to store digital information, processing it and sending it from one place to another through telecommunication equipments in a secure manner is information technology.
The term technology thus often characterises inventions and gadgets using recently-discovered scientific principles and processes. However, even very old inventions such as the wheel exemplify technology.
Another definition — used by economics — sees technology as the current state of our knowledge of how to combine resources to produce desired products (and our knowledge of what can be produced). Thus, we can see technological change when our technical knowledge increases.
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Very often, new is assumed to mean "better" in technology and engineering circles. The notion of appropriate technology developed in the twentieth century to describe situations where it was not desirable to use very new technologies or those that required access to some centralized infrastructure or parts or skills imported from elsewhere. The eco-village movement evolved in part due to this concern. Intermediate technology, more of an economics concern, refers to compromises between central and expensive technologies of developed nations and those which developing nations find most effective to deploy given an excess of labour, and scarcity of cash. In general, an "appropriate" technology will also be "intermediate".
Exactly contrary assumptions are made by those who promote transhumanism, posthumanism, technological singularity, which collectively were described as "Cosmist" views by Hugo de Garis. In these ideologies, technological development is morally good. These ideologies are seen as symptoms of scientism and mathematical fetishism by those who use those terms. Some consider them also to be symptoms of belief in capitalism.
In economics, definitions or assumptions of progress or growth are often related to one or more of the above assumptions. Challenging prevailing assumptions about technology and its usefulness has led to ideas like uneconomic growth or measuring well-being. These, and economics itself, can often be described as technologies, specifically, as persuasion technology — a concern covered in its own separate article.
A technique is a way of efficiently accomplishing a task in a manner that is not immediately obvious or straightforward. Hence
1. Technology, the study of or a collection of techniques
2. anything that can be done employing tools or algorithms
3. In art technique includes tools, processes, structures, forms, and details, as well as the manner in which those are used and put together, one example being collage
1. in music, technique refers to the manner of playing an instrument, as well as the tools and manner of composition and precomposition, see also: Extended technique
In addition, The Technique is the school newspaper of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Technique is also the name of the MIT yearbook.
