Technology
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Technology deals with the knowledge of human tools and crafts.
Depending on when the word technology is used, technology is:
- The tools and machines that help to solve problems;
- The techniques (knowledge) that includes methods, materials, tools, and ways for solving a problem (such as building technology or medical technology);
- A culture-forming activity (such as manufacturing technology, or space-travel technology).
- Using resources to solve a problem (such as knowledge, skills, processes, techniques, tools and raw materials).
- A term to describe the level of achievement in science, mathematics and engineering of a group or culture.
- In economics, technology is the current state of our knowledge of how to put resources together to produce wanted products (and our knowledge of what can be produced).