Technology is a means to provide overall goods necessary for survival and comfort of human life .The use of technology by humans begins with the conversion of natural resources into simple tools . Prehistoric discoveries about the power of fire has increased the availability of food resources , while the creation of the wheel helped humans in beperjalanan and control their environment . Recent technological developments , including the printing press , the telephone, and the Internet , has narrowed the physical barriers to communication and allowed humans to interact freely on a global scale . However , not all technology is used for peaceful purposes ; development of weapons of destruction that has lasted more intense throughout history , from clubs to nuclear weapons .
Technology has affected society and its surroundings in many ways . In many societies , technology has helped improve economies ( including today's global economy ) and has allowed the increase in leisure . Many technological processes produce unwanted by-products , called polluters , and deplete natural resources , to the detriment and damage the Earth and its environment . A wide range of application of technology has affected the value of a society and new technology often raises new ethical questions . For example , the widespread notion of efficiency in the context of human productivity , a term which in awalnynya only menyangku machining , another example is the challenge of traditional norms .
that this is harmful to the environment and human isolate ; advocate ideologies such as transhumanism and techno - progressivism view continued technological processes as being beneficial to society and the human condition . Of course , at least until recently , it was believed that only the limited technology development for human beings , but recent scientific studies suggest that other primates and certain dolphin communities have developed simple tools and learned to pass their knowledge to their offspring .
Technology are: 1 ) Studies that investigate ways of working in the engineering 2 ) The science used in factories and industries ( Harahap , Poerbahawadja , 1982 : 1357 ) .
Technology is a branch of science which is related to the building industry , machinery and so on ( Salim , 1985 : 2015 ) .
According to the Big Indonesian Dictionary (1990 : 1158 ) is a technology ; 1 ) the scientific method to achieve practical goals of applied science 2 ) Overall means to provide the goods necessary for the survival and comfort of human life .
According to Rogers ( in Seels , Richey , 1994 : 12 ) Technology is an instrumental step plan to reduce doubts about the causal relationship in achieving the expected results .
Technology is the development of science and industry ( Saliman , Sudarsono , 1993 : 216 ) .From Wikipedia , is a technology development and application of tools , machines , materials and processes that help people complete the problem . As a human activity , technology began before science and engineering .
In the Random House Dictionary as quoted by Naisbitt ( 2002 : 46 ) Technology is a thing , an object , material and form that are clearly different from humans .
According to Iskandar Alisjahbana as quoted Yusufhadi Miarso ( 2007 : 131 ) , the technology is a way of doing things to meet human needs with the help of tools and reason , so that seemed to extend , strengthen , or mebuat more powerful members of the body, the senses , and the human brain .
According to the Miarso Ellul (2007 : 131 ) , the overall technology is a method that is rationally leads and has a characteristic efficiency in every field of human activity .
According Miarso ( 2007 : 62 ) is a technology that increases the value -added process , the process uses or produces a product , the products are not separate from other products that already exist , and therefore an integral part of a system .
