What do you think are the characteristics of technology?
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there are a lot of characteristics, qualities and virtues of technology. Some are:\n\nPROOF, INNOVATION,  INVENTION, INDUSTRY, MASS AND HIGH QUALITY PRODUCTION.
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1. technology?\n\n2. Robotics?\n\n3. Replacing human labor?\n\n4. Defined in your textbook?\n\n5. All of the above.\n\n(ans, 5)
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Both. Tools are technology.
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Technology, specialization, language (at least verbal), most often some type of mythological/spritual structure
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The five kinds of technology are:\n\n1.  Instructional technology:  Instructional technology is a systematic way of designing, carrying out, and evaluating the total process of learning and teaching in terms of specific objectives, based on research in human learning and communication, and employing a combination of human and nonhuman resources to bring about more effective instruction.\n\n2.  Assistive technology:  Assistive technology employs the use of various types of services and devices designed to help people with disabilities function within the environment. Assistive technologies include mechanical, electronic, and microprocessor-based equipment, non-mechanical and non-electronic aids, specialized instructional materials, services, and strategies that people with disabilities can use either to (a) assist them in learning, (b) make the environment more accessible, (c) enable them to compete in the workplace, (d) enhance their independence, or (e) otherwise improve their quality of life.\n\n    Assistive technologies may include commercially available or "home made" devices that are specially designed to meet the idiosyncratic needs of a particular individual (Blackhurst & Lahm, 2000). Examples include eyeglasses, communication aids, alternative computer keyboards, adaptive switches, and services such as those that might be provided by speech/language pathologists.\n\n3.  Medical technology:  The field of medicine continues to amaze us with the advances constantly being made in medical technology. In addition to seemingly miraculous surgical procedures that are technology-based, many individuals are dependent upon medical technology to stay alive or otherwise enable people to function outside of hospitals and other medical settings. It is not uncommon to see people in their home and community settings who use medical technology.\n\n    For example, artifical limbs and hip and knee implants can help people function in the environment. Cochlear implants can often improve the hearing of people with auditory nerve damage. Some devices provide respiratory assistance through oxygen supplementation and mechanical ventilation. Others, such as cardiorespiratory monitors and pulse oximeters are used as surveillance devices that alert an attendant to a potential vitality problem. Nutritive assistive devices can assist in tube feeding or elimination through ostomies. Intravenous therapy can be provided through medication infusion and kidney function can be assumed by kidney dialysis machines (Batshaw & Perret, 1992). In addition to keeping people alive, technologies such as these can enable people to fully participate in school, community, and work activities. \n\n4.  Technology productive tools:  As the name implies, technology productivity tools are computer software, hardware, and related systems that enable us to work more effectively and efficiently. For example, computer software such as database programs can be used to store and rapidly retrieve information; word processing programs can be used to easily edit text material; FAX machines can facilitate the transmission of written documents over long distances; expert system computer programs can aid in decision making, such as weather forecasting; and video conferencing facilities can reduce the need for travel.\n5.  Information technology:  Information technologies provide access to knowledge and resources on a wide range of topics. The Internet, and its World Wide Web component, is the most prominent example of information technology. The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is another example. The ERIC system enables people to search and locate much of the world's educational literature on a given topic. More information about the ERIC System is available elsewhere on this Web site.
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Technology.  \n\nTechnology is an advance of any sort, science is a method for making advances.  For example, one could invent the wheel without using the scientific method, and therefore without science.\n\nP.S.  I want to know what your teacher said.\n\nIn response to all the Science before Technologies: If someone accidentally found something without using any sort of scientific methodology, hyphothesis, conclusion, etc, does it not become technology?  Do you think the first caveman to find fire sat and theorized about how to make enough friction to create it and set out to do so?  I highly doubt it.  He probably happened upon a naturally occuring fire and gathered some for himself.  Therefore, with no scientific thought, he had the technology of fire.  Science is simply a method (or technology), based on logic (an intellectual technology), that is (almost) universally accepted as the best way to test observable events in nature.  Science is in and of itself a technology... it is plain to see that technology came first.
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Indoor plumbing, the transistor (without which there would be no digital electronics), plastics.  I would agree with the "wheel" answer, except that it came around long before the engineering profession and was probably invented by some caveman.  You could also include scientific principles that have been discovered and subsequently led to great engineering feats.  For instance, Maxwell's Laws of Electromagnetism (the principle on which all wireless devices work), Bernoulli's Principle (the basis for airplane wing design) and so on.
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POWER, can you feel it, look at the POWWWER (cartoon on atom films - 60 seconds arnold by bent TV) power of course, hard drive and humans, alot of things, but mainly humans because humans make them, power sorta come second, robots dont have to run on VOLTAGE or electricity they can run on other powers like wind, water etc etc\n\nhope that helps, Chris
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Technology has many purposes. The main purposes of technology, in my opinion, are:\n\n1. Technology help get things done much easier and faster - for example, in the old days, a more technologically advanced printer in an office of an organisation print faster than an average printer.\n\n2. Technology will increase your satisfaction or utility - for example, the same printer of more advanced technology will print with much more quality.
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The technologies of today could be considered by many to be "best", and they are changing our world now, and will still change it more in the next 5 - 10 years.  Witness Global Warming and climate change...\n\nAny technology that can slow or reverse this trend gets my vote for "best".
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i found some information about the history of technology since the early terchnology till now....i really hopes this works for you....good luck\n\n\nps: dont forget to choose me as best answer....\n\nhttp://www.answers.com/History%20of%20Technology
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The many levels of technology have done amazing things to businesses the list is pretty long but here are the main ones:\n1. Real time communication of customers/employees/systems and other things allow better control of inventory and orders.\n2. More creative reporting tools to streamline productivity.\n3. Sharing data among different areas. (Example - accounting shares data with human resources).\n4. The ability to sell items over the internet as well as out of an actual store.\n\nThere are other areas as well but this just gives you an idea of how technology (Cell Phones - Computers - Internet - GPS and other systems) has changed to face of businesses.
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I'm curious.... If it's due tomorrow, how long have you had to research it?  In any case, you are in luck!  This is the technological age and you can GOOGLE IT!\n\nBest Wishes,\n\nSue
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There is probably no limit to technology as we discover things and invent things all the time. A limiting factor to technology does exist in the for of political, religious, personal, social, etc beliefs. So even if something can be discovered or invented it may never come to light do to these limitations.
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research, confidence, experience, eduation...check a website\n\nthat goes into the category of research
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- Technology\n- Themes\n- Budget\n- Castings\n- Exposures\n- Reach\n- The time\n----------------------------
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Bluetooth technology\nDigital camera improvements like the mega pixel\nThat laptop tablet where you can rotate the monitor and close it to become a tablet - has a pen too\nprogramming your TV (VCR is ancient)to record using your cell phone\nTracking devices used in cars\nIpods...smaller and smaller\nComputer speeds have jumped through the roof!\nPlasma, LCD TVs  Flat screen TVs\ncordless...anything