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As a result, philosophical and political debates have arisen over the role and use of technology, the ethics of technology, and the mitigation of technology’s potential downsides. Historical and contemporary movements like neo-Luddism and anarcho-primitivism criticize technology’s pervasiveness, while adherents to transhumanism and techno-progressivism actively support technological change, viewing it as emancipatory. Many negative impacts of technology can be mitigated through technological innovations like renewable energy in transportation and industry, genetically modified crops to address soil depletion, and space exploration to mitigate global catastrophic risks.
- Since the distinction between Technik and Technologie is absent in English, both were translated as technology.
- One type is mechanical technology, which includes wheels, cams, levers, gears, belts, and engines.
- The Upper Paleolithic, beginning approximately 40,000 years ago, saw the introduction of pressure flaking, where a wood, bone, or antler punch could be used to shape a stone very finely.
- This includes computers, washing machines, dryers, MP3 players, car radios, televisions—anything you plug into the wall outlet.
Fuel-cell technologies are being used to generate power for telecom and industrial customers. Cleaner technologies are being developed to cut pollution from coal-burning power plants. The fast pace of technology presents enormous implications for sustainable business development. Satellite technology offers the opportunity, as never before, for continuous television coverage of major international events. Able to create printed and digital visual communication design work that has added value and aesthetics, to overcome identity problems, mass communication, and competition problems by stakeholders. Man’s relationship with technology has been explored in science-fiction literature, for example in Brave New World, A Clockwork Orange, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Isaac Asimov’s essays, and movies like Minority Report, Total Recall, Gattaca, and Inception.
Basic economic relations are changing as new technologies and markets emerge. Dairy producers are experimenting with new technologies to reduce the cholesterol in milk. Improve your vocabulary with English Vocabulary in Use from Cambridge.
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A 2017 survey found no clear consensus among economists on whether AI would increase long-term unemployment. The use of technology is widely prevalent in medicine, science, industry, communication, transportation, and daily life. Technologies include physical objects like utensils or machines and intangible tools such as software. Because current technologies are generally accepted as good, future technological developments are not considered circumspectly, resulting in what seems to be a blind acceptance of technological development. Human ancestors have been using stone and other tools since long before the emergence of Homo sapiens approximately 200,000 years ago.
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Philosophical debates have arisen over the present and future use of technology in society, with disagreements over whether technology improves the human condition or worsens it. Perhaps the type of technology that we’re most familiar with in modern life is electronic technology, usually just called electronics, which is a complex form of technology that uses electric circuits to achieve a goal. If you have a look at a circuit board with dozens of apparently random pathways mixed in with various components, you know how complex electronics can be.