Technology

What is Technology?

When you think of the word 'technology', what comes to mind? It might sound like something from a sci-fi show, or something that has to run on electricity. Technology makes us think of the very complex, but energy doesn't have to be complex.

Technology is the use of scientific knowledge for practical purposes or applications, whether in industry or in our everyday lives. So, basically, whenever we use our scientific knowledge to achieve some specific purpose, we're using technology. Well, there is slightly more to it than that. Technology usually involves a specific piece of equipment, but that equipment can be incredibly simple or dazzlingly complex. It can be anything from the discovery of the wheel, all the way up to computers and MP3 players.

-We can define it too like the purposeful application of information in the design, production, and utilization of goods and services, and in the organization of human activities.

·         Technology can be described in the following ways:

• ·         Tangible: blueprints, models, operating manuals, prototypes.
• ·         Intangible: consultancy, problem-solving, and training methods.
• ·         High: entirely or almost entirely automated and intelligent technology that manipulates ever finer matter and ever powerful forces.
• ·         Intermediate: semiautomated partially intelligent technology that manipulates refined matter and medium level forces.
• ·         Low: labor-intensive technology that manipulates only coarse or gross matter and weaker forces.