Technology

Definition of technology

Definition of time
Technology is the development and refinement of methods for the effective use of various technologies in isolation, in groups or as a whole - whether technical or mechanical, physical or intellectual - to ensure mechanisms of production, consumption, information, communication, recreation, construction and destruction, as well as the activities of artistic and scientific research.

We will distinguish three technologies:

- an instrumental technology that has been developing for 3 million years. It goes from the simplest tools to microprocessors.

- a social technology that manifests itself in the insertion of ideas or objects in the social circuit, in financial, industrial and political terms, through those who represent the different sectors and the various pressure groups.

- an economic technology which concerns the principles and the techniques of profitability of the investments, as well as the theoretical studies and their practical development by technicians at the disposal of the decision-makers.

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