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Technology ("Science of Craft"

A steam turbine with its case opened is shown, which produces most of the electricity used today. Electrification is considered one of the most important engineering achievements of the 20th century. Technology can be defined as the collection of skills and processes used to develop goods and services, and can involve both detailed knowledge or be embedded in machines. The development of basic tools was one of the earliest forms of technology, while more modern developments like the printing press, telephone, and internet have reduced physical barriers to communication. While technology has increased productivity and economic growth, it also creates pollution and environmental issues, while raising ethical concerns about its influence on values and human impacts. There is ongoing debate about whether technology improves or worsens the human condition.

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Technology ("Science of Craft"

A steam turbine with its case opened is shown, which produces most of the electricity used today. Electrification is considered one of the most important engineering achievements of the 20th century. Technology can be defined as the collection of skills and processes used to develop goods and services, and can involve both detailed knowledge or be embedded in machines. The development of basic tools was one of the earliest forms of technology, while more modern developments like the printing press, telephone, and internet have reduced physical barriers to communication. While technology has increased productivity and economic growth, it also creates pollution and environmental issues, while raising ethical concerns about its influence on values and human impacts. There is ongoing debate about whether technology improves or worsens the human condition.

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A steam turbine with the case opened.

Such turbines
produce most of the electricity used today. Electricity
consumption and living standards are highly
correlated.[1] Electrification is believed to be the most
important engineering achievement of the 20th century.
Technology ("science of craft",
from Greek τέχνη, techne, "art, skill, cunning of
hand"; and -λογία, -logia[2]) is the collection
of techniques, skills, methods,
and processes used in the production
of goods or services or in the accomplishment of
objectives, such as scientific investigation.
Technology can be the knowledge of techniques,
processes, and the like, or it can be embedded
in machines to allow for operation without detailed
knowledge of their workings.
The simplest form of technology is the
development and use of basic tools.
The prehistoric discovery of how to control
fire and the later Neolithic Revolution increased
the available sources of food, and the invention of
the wheel helped humans to travel in and control
their environment. Developments in historic times,
including the printing press, the telephone, and
the Internet, have lessened physical barriers
to communication and allowed humans to interact
freely on a global scale.
Technology has many effects. It has helped
develop more advanced economies (including
today's global economy) and has allowed the rise
of a leisure class. Many technological processes
produce unwanted by-products known
as pollution and deplete natural resources to the
detriment of Earth's environment. Innovations
have always influenced the values of a society
and raised new questions of the ethics of
technology. Examples include the rise of the
notion of efficiency in terms of human productivity,
and the challenges of bioethics.
Philosophical debates have arisen over the use of
technology, with disagreements over whether
technology improves the human condition or
worsens it. Neo-Luddism, anarcho-primitivism,
and similar reactionary movements criticize the
pervasiveness of technology, arguing that it
harms the environment and alienates people;
proponents of ideologies such
as transhumanism and techno-progressivism view
continued technological progress as beneficial to
society and the human condition.

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