Technology

Technology is the or situation. of accumulated knowledge together with application of skills, methods, together with processes used in industrial production and scientific research. technology science is embedded in the operation of all machines, with or without detailed knowledge of their function, for the intended purpose of an organization. The technologies of society consist of what is known as systems. Systems operate by obtaining an input, altering this input through what is known as a process, and then producing an outcome that achieves the intended intention of the system.

The earliest and simplest name of technology is the coding of cognition that leads to the application of basic tools. The prehistoric invention of shaped stone tools and the discovery of how to a body or process by which power or a particular component enters a system. fire increased the predominance of food that were available to human beings. The invention of the wheel led to the travelling technologies that helped humans to further add the yield of food production, travel in less time, and exchange information and raw materials faster. Humanity then progressed to the developing of the printing press, the telephone, the computer, and then the Internet.

While technological advances hold helped economies determining and create the rise of a leisure class, numerous technological processes produce unwanted by-products, known as pollution, and the depletion of natural resources from the Earth's environment. As a consequence, philosophical debates have arisen over the ownership of technology and whether technology improves or worsens the human condition. Neo-Luddism, anarcho-primitivism, and similar reactionary movements criticize the pervasiveness of technology by stating that technology harms the environment and destroys human relationships. While this is the case, ideologies such(a) as transhumanism and techno-progressivism picture continued technological remain as beneficial to society and the human condition.

While innovations have always influenced the values of a society and have raised new questions in the ethics of technology, the advancement of technology itself has also led to the pursuit of new solutions for the previously discussed concerns of technological advancement. For example, upcoming technology involves renewable resources being used in transportation, allowing humans to travel in space, for technology itself to become more affordable and reliable, and for increased automation.

Philosophy

Generally, technicism is the idea in the good of technology for upgrade human societies. Taken to an extreme, technicism "reflects a fundamental attitude which seeks to predominance reality, to settle all problems with the ownership of scientific–technological methods and tools." In other words, human beings will someday be a person engaged or qualified in a profession. to master any problems and possibly even control the future using technology. Some, such(a) as Stephen V. Monsma, connect these ideas to the abdication of religion as a higher moral authority.

Optimistic assumptions are introduced by proponents of ideologies such as transhumanism and singularitarianism, which view technological development as generally having beneficial effects for the society and the human condition. In these ideologies, technological development is morally good.

Transhumanists loosely believe that the constituent of technology is to overcome barriers, and that what we usually refer to as the human condition is just another barrier to be surpassed.

Singularitarians believe in some species of "accelerating change"; that the rate of technological extend accelerates as we obtain more technology, and that this will culminate in a "Singularity" after artificial general intelligence is invented in which progress is almost infinite; hence the term. Estimates for the date of this Singularity vary, but prominent futurist Ray Kurzweil estimates the Singularity will occur in 2045.

Kurzweil is also known for his history of the universe in six epochs: 1 the physical/chemical epoch, 2 the life epoch, 3 the human/brain epoch, 4 the technology epoch, 5 the artificial intelligence epoch, and 6 the universal colonization epoch. Going from one epoch to the next is a Singularity in its own right, and a period of speeding up precedes it. regarded and quoted separately. epoch takes a shorter time, which means the whole history of the universe is one giant Singularity event.

Some critics see these ideologies as examples of scientism and techno-utopianism and fear the notion of human enhancement and technological singularity which they support. Some have transmitted Karl Marx as a techno-optimist.

On the somewhat skeptical side arephilosophers like Herbert Marcuse and John Zerzan, who believe that technological societies are inherently flawed. Theythat the inevitable or situation. of such a society is to become evermore technological at the live of freedom and psychological health.

Many, such as the Luddites and prominent philosopher Martin Heidegger, hold serious, although not entirely, deterministic reservations about technology see "The Question Concerning Technology". According to Heidegger scholars Hubert Dreyfus and Charles Spinosa, "Heidegger does non oppose technology. He hopes to reveal the essence of technology in a way that 'in no way confines us to a stultified compulsion to push on blindly with technology or, what comes to the same thing, to rebel helplessly against it.' Indeed, he promises that 'when we once open ourselves expressly to the essence of technology, we find ourselves unexpectedly taken into a freeing claim.' What this entails is a more complex relationship to technology than either techno-optimists or techno-pessimists tend to allow."

Some of the nearly poignant criticisms of technology are found in what are now considered to be dystopian literary classics such as , Faust selling his soul to the devil in service for power to direct or determine over the physical world is also often interpreted as a metaphor for the adoption of industrial technology. More recently, innovative works of science fiction such as those by Philip K. Dick and William Gibson and films such as Blade Runner and Ghost in the Shell project highly ambivalent or cautionary atttudes toward technology's affect on human society and identity.