Definitions of Technology

 

John Sharkey

ITEC 301.02

 

1. 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 is everywhere and can make life better.

 

2. Technology deals with the human-made world. It is the studies of ways people develop and use technical means - tools and machines, and tells us how to control the natural and human-made world. Technology is the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes: the employment of tools, machines, materials, and processes to do work, transport, manufacture, construct, and communicate. Technology is the way people use things to improve their surroundings - 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.

 

3. Most people would easily consider computers and the internet technology, but what about vitamins? if you think of technology as things people create to use to alter their lifestyle or their surroundings, then vitamins are a technology…technology is concerned mostly with machines, and the infrastructure behind those machines…behind things like radios and telephones and bicycles, there is an entire structure of less visible technologies (in this case radio towers, phone wires and roads)…you find an immense network of technology exists today.

 

4. When I think of technology, I think of words like transportation, computation, innovation, and science. I believe that technology is the advancement of the human race for it’s betterment. Technology makes machines and other things faster, easier, and helpful. Technology is improving, and with this advancement will come a more hi-tech human race.

 

References:

 

1. Bergen County Technical Schools. Definition of Technology. Internet Source:  http://www.bergen.org/technology/defin.html 1999. Copernic 2000 (Search Engine). Internet Explorer 5 (Browser). Compuserve 2000 (ISP).

 

2. LFR Technologies. Technology. Internet Source:  http://www.greensuite.com/technology.htm. Copernic 2000 (Search Engine). Internet Explorer 5 (Browser). Compuserve 2000 (ISP).

 

3. Justin’s Pages. Technology Definition. Internet Source:  http://www.links.net/vita/swat/course/thesis/food/pills/vita.html. Copernic 2000 (Search Engine). Internet Explorer 5 (Browser). Compuserve 2000 (ISP).