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Technology is development and use of tools and machines to extend our capabilities to solve real-world problems. It is very much concerned with what can or should be designed, made, or developed from natural world materials and substances to satisfy human needs and wants. It deals with how humans change objects and events while the science tries to explain object and events. Technology is evolutionary and is often the result of a series of refinements to an idea or basic invention. The acquisition of techniques is a cumulative matter, in which each generation inherits a stock of techniques on which it can build if it chooses and social conditions permit. Many different cultures have had significant impacts upon technological advances. Early in the history of technology, the development of tools and materials was based on technological know-how. However, current technological development is based on scientific knowledge and engineering design.
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Karagözoğlu, B. (2017). Description and Historical Perspectives of Technology. In: Science and Technology from Global and Historical Perspectives. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52890-8_5
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