Technology And Technology: Technological Advancements In Technology

Advancement in Technology

1.1 Introduction

Humanity or Mankind has evolved from the essence that separates humans from beasts: the ability to use the mind for reason. Reason is the ability to analyse, create, deduce, and formulate. It is reason that enables human beings to strive to invent; it is through invention that mankind has developed society and created a better world. We could say that technology is the sum total of instrumentally useful culturally-transmissible information. Technology, a word with Greek origins, is defined as, “the practical application of knowledge especially in a particular area”

Technology is a word used to collectively describe or portray the advancements, abilities, creations, undertakings, views, and knowledge

Thus the speed of improvement is huge and unpredictable.

Technological advancements have shown a substantial growth concerned with each and every field whether it be the communication systems, astronomy, semiconductor devices, automobiles, and electronic devices of daily usage, bio-electronic devices, building and architectural design techniques or the computers.

Systems which is further extended to mobile communications and the GPS, the semiconductor devices that drastically reduced the bulk of the aborigine (primitive) Vacuum tubes and could fit 100 's of gigabytes into one 's pocket, the fast and "intelligent" supercomputers.

The advancements are also accompanied by the reduction in the time, effort and cost for production of any material ranging from the microchips to the state of art automobiles or from the sophisticated devices to the megastructures coupled with ease in design and development.

Needless to add that these advancements also invigorate economic development as the effective use of technology reduces the material production cost and the overhead charges which generate savings in the economy and thus lead to national

The idea was to create a network that was independent and did not require the services of a central computer to control the operations of that network. In addition to this, the network had to be able to still operate, even if parts of it were destroyed. Originally the application of this network would be to transfer information quickly and securely to all parts of the network in the event of nuclear war erupting. It wasn 't too long before other uses for this network became apparent, and in the early 1970 's, email took its first trembling steps. Before long, companies too began to utilise the technology and within years were building their own internal networks. With such information available online it wasn 't long before the emergence of the World Wide Web occurred. Two factors played a key role in this development. Hypertext and Graphic Interfaces were soon in circulation and as such, information was becoming more and more accessible and was beginning to resemble what we today known as the World Wide