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What is Technology? Technology today is the practical application of science. Technologies are typically tools that are used to how we interact with the world. Technology is all around us from the large to the very small more...

Technology comes from the Greek word: tekhnologia, meaning -systematic treatment of an art or craft source: dictionary.com So for example the systematic treatment of transport technology over the years leads to the motor car.

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Why is Technology important and valuable?   Technology helps us with just about everything you we do from a day to day. Technology can help us in a variety of ways, for example technology is able to: find things (maps, navigation) store things (books, discs, energy) control things (electricity, cooking) get places (transport)

Having an an awareness of how technologies are important in our daily life may allow us to be more informed. Being more informed will allow us to make better decisions as whether we should take on new technologies.

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News about Technology. Technology is such a wide area that you probably need to look at a particular type of technology. Although there are often cutting edge technologies that get a high profile.

Some useful sources of technology news ABC News Yahoo! News BBC News

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How does Technology work?   Technology works by applying scientific rules and principles. For example a physics principle that has been discovered can be applied to help us store things, navigate or move things. For example how a CD player works relies on controlling the way light is reflected to produce sound.

Technology can also be thought as improvement of what we have already developed. Fine tuning if you like. As the orginal greek origin of the word suggests... The systematic treatment of an art.

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What is History of Technology?   Technology has been around for as long as humans have developed the ability to carve stones to make tools.

You could think of nature itself as being the greatest technologist. It takes millions of years for it to come up with some rather clever ways to control, manipulate and store

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The Future of Technology? The outlook for Technology is positive and neagtive. On the one side we can see it as a way of solving problems and on the other side it can be seen as causing more problems.

The future of technology is about finding a balance between the risks and benefits.

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