FlipBook - Effects of Technological Change on the United States
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What is Technology?<br />
Technology is<br />
• <strong>the</strong> branch <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> knowledge that deals<br />
with <strong>the</strong> creati<strong>on</strong> and use <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
technical means and <strong>the</strong>ir<br />
interrelati<strong>on</strong> with life, society, and<br />
<strong>the</strong> envir<strong>on</strong>ment.<br />
• <strong>the</strong> applicati<strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> this knowledge<br />
for practical ends.<br />
• a scientific or industrial process,<br />
inventi<strong>on</strong>, method or <strong>the</strong> like.<br />
• <strong>the</strong> sum <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <strong>the</strong> ways in which a<br />
social group provides <strong>the</strong>mselves<br />
with <strong>the</strong> material objects <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <strong>the</strong>ir<br />
civilizati<strong>on</strong>.