Technology is a broad concept. One of the concepts is the development and application of tools, machines, materials and processes that help to solve human problems. As a human activity, technology predates both science and engineering. It embodies the human knowledge of solving real problems in the design of standard tools, machines, materials or the process.
The concept adopted in the international symposium in Paris in 1985 defines technology as “the science of knowing what to do and the creative process where you can use tools and resources to solve problems and improve the human condition”.
In the first concept, technology and science go together. We can say that technology is applied science. However the second concept tells us that technological developments existed long before the scientific Knowledge, this concept clarifies that technology is not necessarily applied science.
Classic societies:
For many centuries the Lower Paleolithic humans were mostly......
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