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Technology can enhance memory if it is used consistently with principles that help us remember. Thoughtfully taking pictures or videos at opportune moments can orient us to what is interesting and ...
Technology is the application of conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals, especially in a reproducible way. [1] The word technology can also mean the products resulting from such efforts, [2] [3] including both tangible tools such as utensils or machines, and intangible ones such as software.
The importance of stone tools, circa 2.5 million years ago, is considered fundamental in the human development in the hunting hypothesis. [citation needed]Primatologist, Richard Wrangham, theorizes that the control of fire by early humans and the associated development of cooking was the spark that radically changed human evolution. [2]
Technology inflows from abroad have played an important role in the development of the United States, especially in the late nineteenth century. A favorable US security environment that allowed relatively low defense spending. High trade barriers encouraged the development of domestic manufacturing industries and the inflow of foreign technologies.
Right now, 2.6 billion people around the world are not online. That creates real world problems that harm public health, social equality and economic development, writes Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg.
The worldwide technology meltdown caused by a flawed update installed earlier this month on computers running Technology's grip on modern life is pushing us down a dimly lit path of digital land mines
Hughes's thesis is a synthesis of two separate models for how technology and society interact. One, technological determinism, claims that society itself is modified by the introduction of a new technology in an irreversible and irreparable way—for example, the introduction of the automobile has influenced the manner in which American cities are designed, a change that can clearly be seen ...
Technology has the potential to be part of the solution—or to exacerbate existing issues. The ripple effects of the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson have been significant.