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Technology is the developing result of all accumulated knowledge and its application in all techniques, skills, methods, and processes that are used in any and all industrial production or scientific research. Technology is therefore embedded in the operation of all machines, with or without the detailed knowledge of their function, for an intended purpose. Systems apply the intended application of a technologies accumulated knowledge by taking an input, altering this factor in accordance to the system's intended purpose, and then producing an outcome, which is also known as a technology system or technological system.
The earliest and simplest form of technology is the development of knowledge that leads to the application of basic tools towards an intended purpose. The prehistoric invention of shaped stone tools and the discovery of how to control fire, increased the sources of food that were available to human beings through the proper cooking that eliminated almost all disease-causing pathogens in food sources. The later Neolithic Revolution extended the importance of this event and quadrupled the sustenance available from a usable territory through the development of farming technologies. In addition, the invention of the wheel led to the traveling technologies that helped humans not only further increase the yield of food production over a given period, but also travel between and across territories in less time, where information could be more easily exchanged between members of society. Not only did this result in increased food production and increased information exchange over large territories, but also the increased production of raw materials that are used for sharing information. (Full article...)
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- ... that Małgorzata Kalinowska-Iszkowska was awarded a Polish Gold Cross of Merit for her work in information technology?
- ... that a researcher at the Electronic Frontier Foundation described Google's Federated Learning of Cohorts as "a technology that should not exist"?
- ... that Theresa M. Korn turned down a scholarship to the Carnegie Institute of Technology in order to become the institute's first female engineer?
- ... that Mary Earle was born near Ben Nevis, and although she became a professor of food technology in New Zealand, she never forgot her Scottish roots?
- ... that Munster Technological University, scheduled to open in 2021, will be only the second university of its type in Ireland?
- ... that minimalist city-building game Islanders deliberately omits features such as resource accumulation and technology research in order to focus on the core mechanic of building placement?
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