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Technology is the application of knowledge to achieve practical goals, resulting in both tangible and intangible products. It has significantly influenced society, from early tools to modern inventions like the Internet, while also raising concerns about its negative impacts such as pollution and unemployment. The term has evolved from its Greek origins to encompass a broader understanding of systematic knowledge application in various fields.

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Technology

Technology is the application of knowledge to achieve practical goals, resulting in both tangible and intangible products. It has significantly influenced society, from early tools to modern inventions like the Internet, while also raising concerns about its negative impacts such as pollution and unemployment. The term has evolved from its Greek origins to encompass a broader understanding of systematic knowledge application in various fields.

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Technology is the application of conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals,

especially in a reproducible way.[1] The word technology can also mean the
products resulting from such efforts,[2][3] including both tangible tools such
as utensils or machines, and intangible ones such as software. Technology plays a
critical role in science, engineering, and everyday life.
Technological advancements have led to significant changes in society. The
earliest known technology is the stone tool, used during prehistory, followed by
the control of fire—which in turn contributed to the growth of the human brain and
the development of language during the Ice Age, according to the cooking
hypothesis. The invention of the wheel in the Bronze Age allowed greater travel and
the creation of more complex machines. More recent technological inventions,
including the printing press, telephone, and the Internet, have lowered barriers to
communication and ushered in the knowledge economy.
While technology contributes to economic development and improves
human prosperity, it can also have negative impacts like pollution and resource
depletion, and can cause social harms like technological unemployment resulting
from automation. As a result, philosophical and political debates about the role
and use of technology, the ethics of technology, and ways to mitigate its downsides
are ongoing.
Etymology
Technology is a term dating back to the early 17th century that meant 'systematic
treatment' (from Greek Τεχνολογία, from
the Greek: τέχνη, romanized: tékhnē, lit. 'craft, art' and -λογία (-logíā), 'study,
knowledge').[4][5] It is predated in use by the Ancient Greek word τέχνη (tékhnē),
used to mean 'knowledge of how to make things', which encompassed activities
like architecture.[6]
Starting in the 19th century, continental Europeans started using the
terms Technik (German) or technique (French) to refer to a 'way of doing', which
included all technical arts, such as dancing, navigation, or printing, whether or not
they required tools or instruments.[7] At the time, Technologie (German and French)
referred either to the academic discipline studying the "methods of arts and
crafts", or to the political discipline "intended to legislate on the functions of the
arts and crafts."[8] The distinction between Technik and Technologie is absent in
English, and so both were translated as technology. The term was previously
uncommon in English and mostly referred to the academic discipline, as in
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[9]
In the 20th century, as a result of scientific progress and the Second Industrial
Revolution, technology stopped being considered a distinct academic discipline
and took on the meaning: the systemic use of knowledge to practical ends.[10]

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