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Technological Change: Its Impact on Man and Society. Harvard University Press, ISBN 0674872355. Mumford, L. (2010). Technics and Civilization. University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0226550273. Noble, David F. (1984), Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation, New York, New York, US: Knopf, ISBN 978-0-394-51262-4, LCCN 83048867.
A technological revolution is a period in which one or more technologies is replaced by another new technology in a short amount of time. It is a time of accelerated technological progress characterized by innovations whose rapid application and diffusion typically cause an abrupt change in society.
Technological advancements have led to significant changes in society. The earliest known technology is the stone tool, used during prehistory, followed by the control of fire—which in turn contributed to the growth of the human brain and the development of language during the Ice Age, according to the cooking hypothesis.
Since technology uses resources, technical history is tightly connected to economic history. From those resources, technology produces other resources, including technological artifacts used in everyday life. Technological change affects, and is affected by, a society's cultural traditions. It is a force for economic growth and a means to ...
At the point of its conception, the SCOT approach was partly motivated by the ideas of the strong programme in the sociology of science (Bloor 1973). In their seminal article, Pinch and Bijker refer to the Principle of Symmetry as the most influential tenet of the Sociology of Science, which should be applied in historical and sociological investigations of technology as well.
A tech-utopia does not disregard any problems that technology may cause, [2] but strongly believes that technology allows mankind to make social, economic, political, and cultural advancements. [3] Overall, Technological Utopianism views technology's impacts as extremely positive.
American researchers made fundamental advances in telecommunications and information technology. For example, AT&T 's Bell Laboratories spearheaded the American technological revolution with a series of inventions including the light emitting diode ( LED ), the transistor , the C programming language , and the UNIX computer operating system.
Technological change (TC) or technological development is the overall process of invention, innovation and diffusion of technology or processes. [1] [2] In essence, technological change covers the invention of technologies (including processes) and their commercialization or release as open source via research and development (producing emerging technologies), the continual improvement of ...