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The FOCS 1 is a continuous cold caesium fountain atomic clock in Switzerland. Credit: METAS.


"It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. Technologies significantly affect human as well as other animal species' ability to control and adapt to their natural environments."[1]


"In 1937, the American sociologist Read Bain wrote that "technology includes all tools, machines, utensils, weapons, instruments, housing, clothing, communicating and transporting devices and the skills by which we produce and use them."[2] Bain's definition remains common among scholars today, especially social scientists."[1]

"[E]qually prominent is the definition of technology as applied science, especially among scientists and engineers, although most social scientists who study technology reject this definition.[3]"[1]

"The Merriam-Webster dictionary offers a definition of the term: "the practical application of knowledge especially in a particular area" and "a capability given by the practical application of knowledge".[4]"[1]

"Ursula Franklin, in her 1989 "Real World of Technology" lecture, gave another definition of the concept; it is "practice, the way we do things around here".[5]"[1]

"Bernard Stiegler, in Technics and Time, 1, defines technology in two ways: as "the pursuit of life by means other than life", and as "organized inorganic matter."[6] ... Stiegler has more recently stated that biotechnology can no longer be defined as "organized inorganic matter," given that it is, rather, "the reorganization of the organic."[7]"[1]


Theoretical technology[edit]

Def. the "organization of knowledge for practical purposes"[9] is called technology.

Usage notes

  • "Adjectives often applied to "technology": assistive, automotive, biological, chemical, domestic, educational, environmental, geospatial, industrial, instructional, medical, microbial, military, nuclear, visual, advanced, sophisticated, high, modern, outdated, obsolete, simple, complex, medieval, ancient, safe, secure, effective, efficient, mechanical, electrical, electronic, emerging, alternative, appropriate, clean, disruptive."[9]


Main source: Clocks


The FOCS 1 continuous cold cesium fountain atomic clock at the top of the page started operating in 2004 at an uncertainty of one second in 30 million years. The clock is in Switzerland.


Main source: Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory.

A laboratory is a construct you create so as to produce reproducible measurements.

Def. "a room, building or institution equipped for scientific research, experimentation or analysis"[12] is called a laboratory.


Main source: Measurements
A typical tape measure with both metric and US units is shown to measure two US pennies. Credit: Stilfehler.

Def. any act of quantifying relative to a standard is called a measurement.

In the image on the right are three diverse technologies:

  1. a typical tape measure with both metric and US units is shown to measure
  2. two stamped US pennies, on a
  3. parquet flooring.


Technology has opened up doors that lead to skill development where these possibilities were never even considered decades earlier. Credit: Thoichang.

One such talented musician from Manipur who has used YouTube to share music to the world is June Neelu. The usage of free and open software itself translates into a counter hegemonic development against the dominant paradigm of the recording industry.


Main source: Plasmas

The image in the center shows a blue glow in the surrounding air from emitted cyclotron particulate radiation.




Main source: Hypotheses
  1. Technology is an opportunity to use materials or thinking and conceiving in the abstract to alter the course of events so that life forms having such facility can survive.

See also[edit]


  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 "Technology, In: Wikipedia". San Francisco, California: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. October 9, 2013. Retrieved 2013-10-10. 
  4. "Definition of technology". Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 2007-02-16. 
  9. 9.0 9.1 "technology, In: Wiktionary". San Francisco, California: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 24 April 2016. Retrieved 2016-05-25. 
  12. "laboratory, In: Wiktionary". San Francisco, California: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. September 21, 2013. Retrieved 2013-09-30. 
  13. "Plasma cleaning, In: Wikipedia". San Francisco, California: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. April 13, 2013. Retrieved 2013-05-28. 

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