The internet and technological advance in data cabling has brought us a new way to amuse ourselves via online gaming. Its estimated 217 million people worldwide play online games, a type of gaming that allows you to play with others all over the world via the wonders of an internet connection and a good Ethernet cable to provide a fast online gaming experience. These include games where players live existentially through avatars to represent themselves such as The Sims. Alternatively there are games such as Warcraft which are strategic and require some devotion.
Ignorance can be bliss!
May 10, 2011 By
So, here’s the thing … you may not have single “physics” bone in your body nor wish to know HOW your products work, but without the electronic components manufactured world wide, society itself would definitely collapse!
The average man-on-the-street has very little idea about electronic components. When they hear about circuit boards, carbon film resistors, [Read more...]
What is Technology?
March 2, 2011 By
Technology is a catch-all term that refers both to artifacts made by humans, eg machines, and the strategies used to make those artifacts. More broadly, technology can often be used to refer to a strategy of doing something or a method of organisation: as an example, democracy might be thought to be a social technology. Technology comes from the Greek technologia, which is a mixture of techne, meaning craft, and logia, meaning pronouncing. So technology could be considered the articulation of a craft. The word is also used to explain the level to which a society can manipulate its environment. When the word technology is utilized today, it is most frequently used to refer to high technology PCs, cell phones, rockets instead of technology generally.
But when anthropologists use the word technology, they’re going all of the way back to the controlled use of fire (from about half a million 1,000,000 years back), the discovery of the wheel (c. Four thousand BCE), and beyond. [Read more...]