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Technology

Technology is the application of conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals, especially in a reproducible way. The word technology can also mean the products resulting from such efforts, including both tangible products such as tools or machines, and intangible ones such as software.

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Etymology

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Ethics

Futures studies

Emerging technologies

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Technology

Nodes302
Edges301
Triples146
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.006623
Components1

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Technology

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related to Modern · 25
Technology → Analog, Atomic Age, Communication, CT, DNA, ENIAC, In, Industrial Revolution, Information, Information Age, Internet, MRI, New, Organized, PET, Second Industrial Revolution, Sputnik, Starting, The, The Space Age
related to Etymology · 13
Technology → Ancient Greek, At, English, Europeans, French, German, Greek, It, Massachusetts Institute, Starting, Technik, Technologie, The
related to Relation to science and engineering · 12
Technology → Because, Engineering, For, Henryk Skolimowski, It, Many, Polish, Probabilist Nassim Taleb, Scientific, Since, Technological, The
related to Existential risk · 10
Technology → Cambridge Center, Existential, Existential Risk, Future, He, In, Nick Bostrom, Relevant, Stanford Existential Risk Initiative, Study
related to Philosophy · 10
Technology → Albert Borgmann, Don Ihde, Initially, It, Marx, Ortega, Philosophy, Second-wave, The, Third-stage
related to Emerging technologies · 9
Technology → Autonomous, Emerging, Genetic, In, Nanobots, Nanotechnology, Ray Kurzweil, Some, They
related to Other animal species · 8
Technology → Boa Vista, Brazil, For, Homo, The, This, Tool, Western
related to Pre-modern · 8
Technology → Asia, Cambridge, Europe, Innovations, Middle Ages, Oxford, Simple, The Renaissance
related to Environmental · 6
Technology → As, Emerging, Environmental, Measures, Other, This
is a · 4
Technology → application of conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals, branch of philosophy that studies the, interdisciplinary subfield of ethics that analyzes technology's ethical implications and explores ways to mitigate potential negative impacts of new technologies, stone tool

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technological use technologies human scientific used social including also science engineering bce knowledge early around humans could led like ethics

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Technologyis aapplication of conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals0.90text
Technologyis astone tool0.90text
Technologyis abranch of philosophy that studies the0.90text
Technologyis ainterdisciplinary subfield of ethics that analyzes technology's ethical implications and explores ways to mitigate potential negative impacts of new technologies0.90text
tools or machinesinstance ofincluding both tangible products0.80text
and intangible ones such as softwareinstance ofincluding both tangible products0.80text
pollutioninstance ofit can also have negative impacts0.80text
resource depletioninstance ofit can also have negative impacts0.80text
and can cause social harms like technological unemployment resulting from automationinstance ofit can also have negative impacts0.80text
Irelandinstance ofThis use of polished stone axes increased greatly in the Neolithic but was originally used in the preceding Mesolithic in some areas0.80text
irrigationinstance ofand the need for collective action to overcome environmental challenges0.80text
are all thought to have played a role.The invention of writing led to the spread of cultural knowledgeinstance ofand the need for collective action to overcome environmental challenges0.80text

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