Technology, the Glossary
Technology is the application of conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals, especially in a reproducible way.[1]
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321 relations: A Clockwork Orange (novel), AI alignment, AI capability control, AI takeover, Albert Borgmann, Algorithmic bias, Alipay, Alloy, American Journal of Human Genetics, Analog computer, Ancient Greek, Aqueduct (bridge), Arms race, Artificial cardiac pacemaker, Artificial general intelligence, Artificial intelligence, Atmosphere, Atomic Age, Automation, Axie Infinity, Basic research, Beaver dam, Bellows, Berkeley, California, Bioethics, Biological warfare, Biotechnology, Bioterrorism, Blade Runner, Blender.io, Blockchain, Boa Vista, Roraima, Bomb disposal, Brain size, Brass, Brave New World, Bright green environmentalism, British Agricultural Revolution, Bronze, Bronze Age, Cambridge University Press, Capuchin monkey, Car, Carbon dioxide, Causality, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, Charcoal, Charles Darwin, Chemistry, Chimpanzee, ... Expand index (271 more) »
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A Clockwork Orange (novel)
A Clockwork Orange is a dystopian satirical black comedy novella by English writer Anthony Burgess, published in 1962.
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AI alignment
In the field of artificial intelligence (AI), AI alignment research aims to steer AI systems toward a person's or group's intended goals, preferences, and ethical principles.
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AI capability control
In the field of artificial intelligence (AI) design, AI capability control proposals, also referred to as AI confinement, aim to increase our ability to monitor and control the behavior of AI systems, including proposed artificial general intelligences (AGIs), in order to reduce the danger they might pose if misaligned.
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AI takeover
An AI takeover is an imagined scenario in which artificial intelligence (AI) emerges as the dominant form of intelligence on Earth and computer programs or robots effectively take control of the planet away from the human species, which relies on human intelligence.
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Albert Borgmann
Albert Borgmann (Nov. 23, 1937 – May 7, 2023) was a German-born American philosopher, specializing in the philosophy of technology.
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Algorithmic bias
Algorithmic bias describes systematic and repeatable errors in a computer system that create "unfair" outcomes, such as "privileging" one category over another in ways different from the intended function of the algorithm.
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Alipay
Alipay is a third-party mobile and online payment platform, established in Hangzhou, China in February 2004 by Alibaba Group and its founder Jack Ma.
Alloy
An alloy is a mixture of chemical elements of which in most cases at least one is a metallic element, although it is also sometimes used for mixtures of elements; herein only metallic alloys are described.
American Journal of Human Genetics
The American Journal of Human Genetics is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal in the field of human genetics.
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Analog computer
An analog computer or analogue computer is a type of computation machine (computer) that uses the continuous variation aspect of physical phenomena such as electrical, mechanical, or hydraulic quantities (analog signals) to model the problem being solved.
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Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.
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Aqueduct (bridge)
Aqueducts are bridges constructed to convey watercourses across gaps such as valleys or ravines.
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Arms race
An arms race occurs when two or more groups compete in military superiority.
Artificial cardiac pacemaker
An artificial cardiac pacemaker, commonly referred to as simply a pacemaker, is an implanted medical device that generates electrical pulses delivered by electrodes to one or more of the chambers of the heart.
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Artificial general intelligence
Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that matches or surpasses human capabilities across a wide range of cognitive tasks.
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Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI), in its broadest sense, is intelligence exhibited by machines, particularly computer systems.
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Atmosphere
An atmosphere is a layer of gasses that envelop an astronomical object, held in place by the gravity of the object.
Atomic Age
The Atomic Age, also known as the Atomic Era, is the period of history following the detonation of the first nuclear weapon, The Gadget at the Trinity test in New Mexico on 16 July 1945 during World War II.
Automation
Automation describes a wide range of technologies that reduce human intervention in processes, mainly by predetermining decision criteria, subprocess relationships, and related actions, as well as embodying those predeterminations in machines.
Axie Infinity
Axie Infinity is a blockchain game developed by Vietnamese studio Sky Mavis, known for its in-game economy which uses Ethereum-based cryptocurrencies.
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Basic research
Basic research, also called pure research, fundamental research, basic science, or pure science, is a type of scientific research with the aim of improving scientific theories for better understanding and prediction of natural or other phenomena.
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Beaver dam
A beaver dam or beaver impoundment is a dam built by beavers; it creates a pond which protects against predators such as coyotes, wolves and bears, and holds their food during winter.
Bellows
A bellows or pair of bellows is a device constructed to furnish a strong blast of air.
Berkeley, California
Berkeley is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States.
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Bioethics
Bioethics is both a field of study and professional practice, interested in ethical issues related to health (primarily focused on the human, but also increasingly includes animal ethics), including those emerging from advances in biology, medicine, and technologies.
Biological warfare
Biological warfare, also known as germ warfare, is the use of biological toxins or infectious agents such as bacteria, viruses, insects, and fungi with the intent to kill, harm or incapacitate humans, animals or plants as an act of war.
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Biotechnology
Biotechnology is a multidisciplinary field that involves the integration of natural sciences and engineering sciences in order to achieve the application of organisms and parts thereof for products and services.
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Bioterrorism
Bioterrorism is terrorism involving the intentional release or dissemination of biological agents.
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Blade Runner
Blade Runner is a 1982 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott from a screenplay by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples.
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Blender.io
Blender.io is a cryptocurrency mixer that was established in 2017.
Blockchain
A blockchain is a distributed ledger with growing lists of records (blocks) that are securely linked together via cryptographic hashes.
Boa Vista, Roraima
Boa Vista (literally Good View; figuratively "Fairview") is the capital of the Brazilian state of Roraima.
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Bomb disposal
Bomb disposal is an explosives engineering profession using the process by which hazardous explosive devices are disabled or otherwise rendered safe.
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Brain size
The size of the brain is a frequent topic of study within the fields of anatomy, biological anthropology, animal science and evolution.
Brass
Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc, in proportions which can be varied to achieve different colours and mechanical, electrical, acoustic and chemical properties, but copper typically has the larger proportion, generally 66% copper and 34% zinc.
Brave New World
Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932.
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Bright green environmentalism
Bright green environmentalism is an ideology based on the belief that the convergence of technological change and social innovation provides the most successful path to sustainable development.
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British Agricultural Revolution
The British Agricultural Revolution, or Second Agricultural Revolution, was an unprecedented increase in agricultural production in Britain arising from increases in labor and land productivity between the mid-17th and late 19th centuries.
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Bronze
Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals, such as phosphorus, or metalloids, such as arsenic or silicon.
Bronze Age
The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.
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Capuchin monkey
The capuchin monkeys are New World monkeys of the subfamily Cebinae.
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Car
A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels.
Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.
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Causality
Causality is an influence by which one event, process, state, or object (a cause) contributes to the production of another event, process, state, or object (an effect) where the cause is partly responsible for the effect, and the effect is partly dependent on the cause.
Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) is a research centre at the University of Cambridge, intended to study possible extinction-level threats posed by present or future technology.
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Charcoal
Charcoal is a lightweight black carbon residue produced by strongly heating wood (or other animal and plant materials) in minimal oxygen to remove all water and volatile constituents.
Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology.
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Chemistry
Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter.
Chimpanzee
The chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), also simply known as the chimp, is a species of great ape native to the forests and savannahs of tropical Africa.
Climate change
In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.
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Cloaca Maxima
The Cloaca Maxima (Cloāca Maxima) or, less often, Maxima Cloaca, was one of the world's earliest sewage systems.
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Clock
A clock or chronometer is a device that measures and displays time.
Computer
A computer is a machine that can be programmed to automatically carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations (computation).
Computer ethics
Computer ethics is a part of practical philosophy concerned with how computing professionals should make decisions regarding professional and social conduct.
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Computer science
Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation.
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Conceptual model
The term conceptual model refers to any model that is formed after a conceptualization or generalization process.
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Constable & Robinson
Constable & Robinson Ltd. is an imprint of Little, Brown which publishes fiction and non-fiction books and ebooks.
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Control of fire by early humans
The control of fire by early humans was a critical technology enabling the evolution of humans.
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Convexity (finance)
In mathematical finance, convexity refers to non-linearities in a financial model.
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Counterculture of the 1960s
The counterculture of the 1960s was an anti-establishment cultural phenomenon and political movement that developed in the Western world during the mid-20th century.
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Crete
Crete (translit, Modern:, Ancient) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica.
Criticism of technology
Criticism of technology is an analysis of adverse impacts of industrial and digital technologies. Technology and Criticism of technology are technology systems.
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Crow
A crow (pronounced) is a bird of the genus Corvus, or more broadly, a synonym for all of Corvus.
Cryonics
Cryonics (from κρύος kryos meaning 'cold') is the low-temperature freezing (usually at) and storage of human remains, with the speculative hope that resurrection may be possible in the future.
Cryptocurrency tumbler
A cryptocurrency tumbler or cryptocurrency mixing service is a service that mixes potentially identifiable or "tainted" cryptocurrency funds with others, so as to obscure the trail back to the fund's original source.
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CT scan
A computed tomography scan (CT scan; formerly called computed axial tomography scan or CAT scan) is a medical imaging technique used to obtain detailed internal images of the body.
Current Anthropology
Current Anthropology is a peer-reviewed anthropology academic journal published by the University of Chicago Press for the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.
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Cyberethics
Cyberethics is "a branch of ethics concerned with behavior in an online environment".
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Cyberpunk
Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a dystopian futuristic setting said to focus on a combination of "low-life and high tech".
Daron Acemoglu
Kamer Daron Acemoğlu (born September 3, 1967) is a Turkish American economist of Armenian descent who has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1993, where he is currently the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics.
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Decentralization
Decentralization or decentralisation is the process by which the activities of an organization, particularly those regarding planning and decision-making, are distributed or delegated away from a central, authoritative location or group and given to smaller factions within it.
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Defibrillation
Defibrillation is a treatment for life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias, specifically ventricular fibrillation (V-Fib) and non-perfusing ventricular tachycardia (V-Tach).
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Deforestation
Deforestation or forest clearance is the removal and destruction of a forest or stand of trees from land that is then converted to non-forest use.
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Dialysis (chemistry)
In chemistry, dialysis is the process of separating molecules in solution by the difference in their rates of diffusion through a semipermeable membrane, such as dialysis tubing.
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Directed evolution (transhumanism)
The term directed evolution is used within the transhumanist community to refer to the idea of applying the principles of directed evolution and experimental evolution to the control of human evolution.
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Division of labour
The division of labour is the separation of the tasks in any economic system or organisation so that participants may specialise (specialisation).
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DNA microarray
A DNA microarray (also commonly known as DNA chip or biochip) is a collection of microscopic DNA spots attached to a solid surface.
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Don Ihde
Don Ihde (January 14, 1934 – January 17, 2024) was an American philosopher of science and technology.
Early human migrations
Early human migrations are the earliest migrations and expansions of archaic and modern humans across continents.
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Ecological modernization
Ecological modernization is a school of thought that argues that both the state and the market can work together to protect the environment.
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Ecomodernism
Ecomodernism is an environmental philosophy which argues that technological development can protect nature and improve human wellbeing through eco-economic decoupling, i.e., by separating economic growth from environmental impacts.
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Economic development
In the economics study of the public sector, economic and social development is the process by which the economic well-being and quality of life of a nation, region, local community, or an individual are improved according to targeted goals and objectives.
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Ecovillage
An ecovillage is a traditional or intentional community with the goal of becoming more socially, culturally, economically, and/or ecologically sustainable.
Electric light
An electric light, lamp, or light bulb is an electrical component that produces light.
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Electric motor
An electric motor is an electrical machine that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy.
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Employment-to-population ratio
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development defines the employment rate as the employment-to-population ratio.
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Engineering
Engineering is the practice of using natural science, mathematics, and the engineering design process to solve technical problems, increase efficiency and productivity, and improve systems. Technology and engineering are main topic articles.
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Engineering ethics
Engineering ethics is the field of system of moral principles that apply to the practice of engineering.
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ENIAC
ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer, completed in 1945.
Environmental technology
Environmental technology (envirotech) is the use of engineering and technological approaches to understand and address issues that affect the environment with the aim of fostering environmental improvement.
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Ethics
Ethics is the philosophical study of moral phenomena. Technology and Ethics are main topic articles.
Ethics of artificial intelligence
The ethics of artificial intelligence covers a broad range of topics within the field that are considered to have particular ethical stakes.
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Ethics of nanotechnologies
Ethics of nanotechnology is the study of the ethical issues emerging from advances in nanotechnology and its impacts.
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Ethics of technology
The ethics of technology is a sub-field of ethics addressing the ethical questions specific to the Technology Age, the transitional shift in society wherein personal computers and subsequent devices provide for the quick and easy transfer of information.
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Euphrates
The Euphrates (see below) is the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of Western Asia.
Eurasia
Eurasia is the largest continental area on Earth, comprising all of Europe and Asia.
Everyday life
Everyday life, daily life or routine life comprises the ways in which people typically act, think, and feel on a daily basis.
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Factory system
The factory system is a method of manufacturing whereby workers and manufacturing equipment are centralized in a factory, the work is supervised and structured through a division of labor, and the manufacturing process is mechanized.
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Firefighting
Firefighting is a profession aimed at controlling and extinguishing fire.
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Flooding of the Nile
The flooding of the Nile has been an important natural cycle in Nubia and Egypt since ancient times.
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In metallurgy, a flux is a chemical reducing agent, flowing agent, or purifying agent.
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Forging
Forging is a manufacturing process involving the shaping of metal using localized compressive forces.
Gamma-ray burst
In gamma-ray astronomy, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are immensely energetic explosions that have been observed in distant galaxies, being the brightest and most extreme explosive events in the entire universe, as NASA describes the bursts as the "most powerful class of explosions in the universe".
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Gattaca
Gattaca is a 1997 American dystopian science fiction film written and directed by Andrew Niccol in his feature directorial debut.
Genetic engineering
Genetic engineering, also called genetic modification or genetic manipulation, is the modification and manipulation of an organism's genes using technology.
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Genetically modified organism
A genetically modified organism (GMO) is any organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques.
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Genetics
Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms.
Glastonbury
Glastonbury is a town and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated at a dry point on the low-lying Somerset Levels, south of Bristol.
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Goal
A goal or objective is an idea of the future or desired result that a person or a group of people envision, plan, and commit to achieve.
Good
In most contexts, the concept of good denotes the conduct that should be preferred when posed with a choice between possible actions.
Gortyn
Gortyn, Gortys or Gortyna (Γόρτυν, Γόρτυς, or Γόρτυνα) is a municipality, and an archaeological site, on the Mediterranean island of Crete away from the island's capital, Heraklion.
Greenhouse effect
The greenhouse effect occurs when greenhouse gases in a planet's atmosphere insulate the planet from losing heat to space, raising its surface temperature.
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Greenhouse gas
Greenhouse gases (GHGs) are the gases in the atmosphere that raise the surface temperature of planets such as the Earth.
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Hacker culture
The hacker culture is a subculture of individuals who enjoy—often in collective effort—the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming the limitations of software systems or electronic hardware (mostly digital electronics), to achieve novel and clever outcomes.
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Hand axe
A hand axe (or handaxe or Acheulean hand axe) is a prehistoric stone tool with two faces that is the longest-used tool in human history.
Health technology
Health technology is defined by the World Health Organization as the "application of organized knowledge and skills in the form of devices, medicines, vaccines, procedures, and systems developed to solve a health problem and improve quality of lives".
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Hearth
A hearth is the place in a home where a fire is or was traditionally kept for home heating and for cooking, usually constituted by at least a horizontal hearthstone and often enclosed to varying degrees by any combination of reredos (a low, partial wall behind a hearth), fireplace, oven, smoke hood, or chimney.
Henryk Skolimowski
Henryk Skolimowski (4 May 1930 in Warsaw – 6 April 2018 in Warsaw) was a Polish philosopher.
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Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse (July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979) was a German–American philosopher, social critic, and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory.
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Hierarchy
A hierarchy (from Greek:, from, 'president of sacred rites') is an arrangement of items (objects, names, values, categories, etc.) that are represented as being "above", "below", or "at the same level as" one another.
History of writing
The history of writing traces the development of writing systems and how their use transformed and was transformed by different societies.
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Hominidae
The Hominidae, whose members are known as the great apes or hominids, are a taxonomic family of primates that includes eight extant species in four genera: Pongo (the Bornean, Sumatran and Tapanuli orangutan); Gorilla (the eastern and western gorilla); Pan (the chimpanzee and the bonobo); and Homo, of which only modern humans (''Homo sapiens'') remain.
Homo
Homo is a genus of great ape that emerged from the genus Australopithecus and encompasses the extant species Homo sapiens (modern humans) and a number of extinct species (collectively called archaic humans) classified as either ancestral or closely related to modern humans.
Horse collar
A horse collar is a part of a horse harness that is used to distribute the load around a horse's neck and shoulders when pulling a wagon or plough.
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Horseshoe
A horseshoe is a product designed to protect a horse hoof from wear.
Human brain
The brain is the central organ of the human nervous system, and with the spinal cord makes up the central nervous system.
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Human extinction
Human extinction is the hypothetical end of the human species, either by population decline due to extraneous natural causes, such as an asteroid impact or large-scale volcanism, or via anthropogenic destruction (self-extinction), for example by sub-replacement fertility.
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Human spaceflight
Human spaceflight (also referred to as manned spaceflight or crewed spaceflight) is spaceflight with a crew or passengers aboard a spacecraft, often with the spacecraft being operated directly by the onboard human crew.
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Hunter-gatherer
A hunter-gatherer or forager is a human living in a community, or according to an ancestrally derived lifestyle, in which most or all food is obtained by foraging, that is, by gathering food from local naturally occurring sources, especially wild edible plants but also insects, fungi, honey, bird eggs, or anything safe to eat, and/or by hunting game (pursuing and/or trapping and killing wild animals, including catching fish).
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Impact event
An impact event is a collision between astronomical objects causing measurable effects.
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Inca Empire
The Inca Empire, officially known as the Realm of the Four Parts (Tawantinsuyu, "four parts together"), was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America.
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Inception
Inception is a 2010 science fiction action film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who also produced it with Emma Thomas, his wife.
Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a period of global transition of the human economy towards more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes that succeeded the Agricultural Revolution.
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Industrial Society and Its Future
Industrial Society and Its Future, also known as the Unabomber Manifesto, is a 1995 anti-technology essay by Ted Kaczynski, the "Unabomber".
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Industry (economics)
In macroeconomics, an industry is a branch of an economy that produces a closely related set of raw materials, goods, or services.
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Information Age
The Information Age (also known as the Third Industrial Revolution, Computer Age, Digital Age, Silicon Age, New Media Age, Internet Age, or the Digital Revolution) is a historical period that began in the mid-20th century.
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Initiative on Global Markets
The Initiative on Global Markets (IGM) is a research center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in the United States.
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Instrumentation
Instrumentation is a collective term for measuring instruments, used for indicating, measuring, and recording physical quantities.
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Intellectual property
Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect.
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Intelligent agent
In intelligence and artificial intelligence, an intelligent agent (IA) is an agent acting in an intelligent manner.
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Interferon
Interferons (IFNs) are a group of signaling proteins made and released by host cells in response to the presence of several viruses.
Internet
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. Technology and internet are main topic articles.
Internet censorship
Internet censorship is the legal control or suppression of what can be accessed, published, or viewed on the Internet.
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Internet privacy
Internet privacy involves the right or mandate of personal privacy concerning the storage, re-purposing, provision to third parties, and display of information pertaining to oneself via the Internet.
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Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.
Iraq
Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia and a core country in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East.
Irrigation
Irrigation (also referred to as watering of plants) is the practice of applying controlled amounts of water to land to help grow crops, landscape plants, and lawns.
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov (– April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University.
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John Gribbin
John R. Gribbin (born 19 March 1946) is a British science writer, an astrophysicist, and a visiting fellow in astronomy at the University of Sussex.
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John Zerzan
John Edward Zerzan (born August 10, 1943) is an American anarchist and primitivist author.
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German-born philosopher, political theorist, economist, historian, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist.
Kiln
A kiln is a thermally insulated chamber, a type of oven, that produces temperatures sufficient to complete some process, such as hardening, drying, or chemical changes.
Kitchen utensil
A kitchen utensil is a small hand-held tool used for food preparation.
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Knossos
Knossos (pronounced; Knōssós,; Linear B: 𐀒𐀜𐀰 Ko-no-so) is a Bronze Age archaeological site in Crete.
Knowledge economy
The knowledge economy, or knowledge-based economy, is an economic system in which the production of goods and services is based principally on knowledge-intensive activities that contribute to advancement in technical and scientific innovation.
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Language
Language is a structured system of communication that consists of grammar and vocabulary. Technology and Language are main topic articles.
Lead sulfide
Lead sulfide refers to two compounds containing lead and sulfur.
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Lever
A lever is a simple machine consisting of a beam or rigid rod pivoted at a fixed hinge, or fulcrum.
Library
A library is a collection of books, and possibly other materials and media, that is accessible for use by its members and members of allied institutions.
Life extension
Life extension is the concept of extending the human lifespan, either modestly through improvements in medicine or dramatically by increasing the maximum lifespan beyond its generally-settled biological limit of around 125 years.
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Lithic reduction
In archaeology, in particular of the Stone Age, lithic reduction is the process of fashioning stones or rocks from their natural state into tools or weapons by removing some parts.
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Ljubljana Marsh
The Ljubljana Marsh (Ljubljansko barje), located south of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, is the largest marsh in the country.
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Localism (politics)
Localism is a range of political philosophies which prioritize the local.
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Luddite
The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textile workers who opposed the use of certain types of automated machinery due to concerns regarding decreased pay for textile workers and a perceived reduction of output quality, and often destroyed the machines in organised raids.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969.
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Machine
A machine is a physical system that uses power to apply forces and control movement to perform an action.
Machine ethics
Machine ethics (or machine morality, computational morality, or computational ethics) is a part of the ethics of artificial intelligence concerned with adding or ensuring moral behaviors of man-made machines that use artificial intelligence, otherwise known as artificial intelligent agents.
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Magnetic resonance imaging
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a medical imaging technique used in radiology to form pictures of the anatomy and the physiological processes inside the body.
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Mass production
Mass production, also known as flow production, series production, series manufacture, or continuous production, is the production of substantial amounts of standardized products in a constant flow, including and especially on assembly lines.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Maykop culture
The Maykop culture (scientific transliteration: Majkop), c. 3700 BC–3000 BC, is a major Bronze Age archaeological culture in the western Caucasus region.
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Media ethics is the subdivision dealing with the specific ethical principles and standards of media, including broadcast media, film, theatre, the arts, print media and the internet.
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Medication
A medication (also called medicament, medicine, pharmaceutical drug, medicinal drug or simply drug) is a drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease.
Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.
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Mesolithic
The Mesolithic (Greek: μέσος, mesos 'middle' + λίθος, lithos 'stone') or Middle Stone Age is the Old World archaeological period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic.
Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent.
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A metallurgical furnace, often simply referred to as a furnace when the context is known, is an industrial furnace used to heat, melt, or otherwise process metals.
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Metallurgy is a domain of materials science and engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their inter-metallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are known as alloys.
Methane
Methane is a chemical compound with the chemical formula (one carbon atom bonded to four hydrogen atoms).
Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
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Military
A military, also known collectively as an armed forces, are a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare. Technology and military are main topic articles.
Mind uploading
Mind uploading is a speculative process of whole brain emulation in which a brain scan is used to completely emulate the mental state of the individual in a digital computer.
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Minoan civilization
The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age culture which was centered on the island of Crete.
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Minority Report (film)
Minority Report is a 2002 American cyberpunk action film directed by Steven Spielberg, loosely based on Philip K. Dick's 1956 novella "The Minority Report".
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MIT Press
The MIT Press is a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Movable type
Movable type (US English; moveable type in British English) is the system and technology of printing and typography that uses movable components to reproduce the elements of a document (usually individual alphanumeric characters or punctuation marks) usually on the medium of paper.
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Mutual assured destruction
Mutual assured destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy which posits that a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by an attacker on a nuclear-armed defender with second-strike capabilities would result in the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender.
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Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology is the manipulation of matter with at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometers (nm).
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Neil Postman
Neil Postman (March 8, 1931 – October 5, 2003) was an American author, educator, media theorist and cultural critic, who eschewed digital technology, including personal computers, mobile devices, and cruise control in cars, and was critical of uses of technology, such as personal computers in school.
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Neolithic
The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος 'new' and λίθος 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa.
Neolithic Revolution
The Neolithic Revolution, also known as the First Agricultural Revolution, was the wide-scale transition of many human cultures during the Neolithic period in Afro-Eurasia from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement, making an increasingly large population possible.
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Neuromancer
Neuromancer is a 1984 science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson.
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Nick Bostrom
Nick Bostrom (Niklas Boström; born 10 March 1973 in Sweden) is a philosopher known for his work on existential risk, the anthropic principle, human enhancement ethics, whole brain emulation, superintelligence risks, and the reversal test.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell.
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Nomad
Nomads are communities without fixed habitation who regularly move to and from areas.
Nuclear fission
Nuclear fission is a reaction in which the nucleus of an atom splits into two or more smaller nuclei.
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Nuclear power
Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions to produce electricity.
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Nuclear warfare
Nuclear warfare, also known as atomic warfare, is a military conflict or prepared political strategy that deploys nuclear weaponry.
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Nuclear weapon
A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion.
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Off-the-grid
Off-the-grid or off-grid is a characteristic of buildings and a lifestyle designed in an independent manner without reliance on one or more public utilities.
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Oil spill
An oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment, especially the marine ecosystem, due to human activity, and is a form of pollution.
Optical amplifier
An optical amplifier is a device that amplifies an optical signal directly, without the need to first convert it to an electrical signal.
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Optical fiber
An optical fiber, or optical fibre, is a flexible glass or plastic fiber that can transmit light from one end to the other.
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Outline of technology
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to technology: Technology – collection of tools, including machinery, modifications, arrangements and procedures used by humans.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Palomar College
Palomar College is a public community college in San Diego County, California.
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Pandemic
A pandemic is an epidemic of an infectious disease that has a sudden increase in cases and spreads across a large region, for instance multiple continents or worldwide, affecting a substantial number of individuals.
PayPal
PayPal Holdings, Inc. is an American multinational financial technology company operating an online payments system in the majority of countries that support online money transfers; it serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods such as checks and money orders.
Penicillin
Penicillins (P, PCN or PEN) are a group of β-lactam antibiotics originally obtained from Penicillium moulds, principally P. chrysogenum and P. rubens.
Persian Gulf
The Persian Gulf (Fars), sometimes called the (Al-Khalīj al-ˁArabī), is a mediterranean sea in West Asia.
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Philosophy of education
The philosophy of education is the branch of applied philosophy that investigates the nature of education as well as its aims and problems.
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Physics
Physics is the natural science of matter, involving the study of matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force.
Pleistocene
The Pleistocene (often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.
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Politics and technology
Politics and technology encompasses concepts, mechanisms, personalities, efforts, and social movements that include, but are not necessarily limited to, the Internet and other information and communication technologies (ICTs).
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Pollution
Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change.
Positron emission tomography
Positron emission tomography (PET) is a functional imaging technique that uses radioactive substances known as radiotracers to visualize and measure changes in metabolic processes, and in other physiological activities including blood flow, regional chemical composition, and absorption.
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Post-scarcity
Post-scarcity is a theoretical economic situation in which most goods can be produced in great abundance with minimal human labor needed, so that they become available to all very cheaply or even freely.
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Potter's wheel
In pottery, a potter's wheel is a machine used in the shaping (known as throwing) of clay into round ceramic ware.
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Prehistory
Prehistory, also called pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the first known use of stone tools by hominins million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems.
Primates (journal)
Primates is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of primatology, and an official journal of the Japan Monkey Center at Kyoto University.
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Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University.
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Printing press
A printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink.
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Productivity-improving technologies
The productivity-improving technologies are the technological innovations that have historically increased productivity.
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Progress
Progress is movement towards a refined, improved, or otherwise desired state.
Prosperity
Prosperity is the flourishing, thriving, good fortune and successful social status.
Pulley
A pulley is a wheel on an axle or shaft enabling a taut cable or belt passing over the wheel to move and change direction, or transfer power between itself and a shaft.
Quantum mechanics
Quantum mechanics is a fundamental theory that describes the behavior of nature at and below the scale of atoms.
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Radio telescope
A radio telescope is a specialized antenna and radio receiver used to detect radio waves from astronomical radio sources in the sky.
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Raw material
A raw material, also known as a feedstock, unprocessed material, or primary commodity, is a basic material that is used to produce goods, finished goods, energy, or intermediate materials that are feedstock for future finished products.
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Ray Kurzweil
Raymond Kurzweil (born February 12, 1948) is an American computer scientist, author, entrepreneur, futurist, and inventor.
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Renaissance
The Renaissance is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries.
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Renaissance technology
Renaissance technology was the set of European artifacts and inventions which spread through the Renaissance period, roughly the 14th century through the 16th century.
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Reproducibility
Reproducibility, closely related to replicability and repeatability, is a major principle underpinning the scientific method.
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Resource
Resource refers to all the materials available in our environment which are technologically accessible, economically feasible and culturally sustainable and help us to satisfy our needs and wants.
Resource depletion
Resource depletion is the consumption of a resource faster than it can be replenished.
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Robot ethics
Robot ethics, sometimes known as "roboethics", concerns ethical problems that occur with robots, such as whether robots pose a threat to humans in the long or short run, whether some uses of robots are problematic (such as in healthcare or as 'killer robots' in war), and how robots should be designed such that they act 'ethically' (this last concern is also called machine ethics).
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Robotics
Robotics is the interdisciplinary study and practice of the design, construction, operation, and use of robots.
Roman aqueduct
The Romans constructed aqueducts throughout their Republic and later Empire, to bring water from outside sources into cities and towns.
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Sailing ship
A sailing ship is a sea-going vessel that uses sails mounted on masts to harness the power of wind and propel the vessel.
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Science
Science is a strict systematic discipline that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the world. Technology and Science are main topic articles.
Science (journal)
Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.
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Scientific American
Scientific American, informally abbreviated SciAm or sometimes SA, is an American popular science magazine.
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Screw
A screw is an externally helical threaded fastener capable of being tightened or released by a twisting force (torque) to the head.
Search and rescue
Search and rescue (SAR) is the search for and provision of aid to people who are in distress or imminent danger.
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The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is a collective term for scientific searches for intelligent extraterrestrial life, for example, monitoring electromagnetic radiation for signs of transmissions from civilizations on other planets.
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Second Industrial Revolution
The Second Industrial Revolution, also known as the Technological Revolution, was a phase of rapid scientific discovery, standardisation, mass production and industrialisation from the late 19th century into the early 20th century.
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Sedentism
In cultural anthropology, sedentism (sometimes called sedentariness; compare sedentarism) is the practice of living in one place for a long time.
Sediment
Sediment is a naturally occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of wind, water, or ice or by the force of gravity acting on the particles.
Serendipity
Serendipity is an unplanned fortunate discovery.
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Sewage treatment
Sewage treatment (or domestic wastewater treatment, municipal wastewater treatment) is a type of wastewater treatment which aims to remove contaminants from sewage to produce an effluent that is suitable to discharge to the surrounding environment or an intended reuse application, thereby preventing water pollution from raw sewage discharges.
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Sewerage
Sewerage (or sewage system) is the infrastructure that conveys sewage or surface runoff (stormwater, meltwater, rainwater) using sewers.
Simple machine
A simple machine is a mechanical device that changes the direction or magnitude of a force.
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Simulation
A simulation is an imitative representation of a process or system that could exist in the real world.
Singularitarianism
Singularitarianism is a movement defined by the belief that a technological singularity—the creation of superintelligence—will likely happen in the medium future, and that deliberate action ought to be taken to ensure that the singularity benefits humans.
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Smelting
Smelting is a process of applying heat and a chemical reducing agent to an ore to extract a desired base metal product.
Social construction of technology (SCOT) is a theory within the field of science and technology studies.
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In sociology, socialization (Modern English; or socialisation - see spelling differences) is the process of internalizing the norms and ideologies of society.
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Society
A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Technology and society are main topic articles.
Sociotechnical system
Sociotechnical systems (STS) in organizational development is an approach to complex organizational work design that recognizes the interaction between people and technology in workplaces.
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Software
Software consists of computer programs that instruct the execution of a computer.
Software engineering
Software engineering is an engineering approach to software development.
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Solar power
Solar power, also known as solar electricity, is the conversion of energy from sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV) or indirectly using concentrated solar power.
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Space Age
The Space Age is a period encompassing the activities related to the space race, space exploration, space technology, and the cultural developments influenced by these events, beginning with the launch of Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957, and continuing to the present.
Sputnik 1
Sputnik 1 (Спутник-1, Satellite 1) was the first artificial Earth satellite.
Statistical inference
Statistical inference is the process of using data analysis to infer properties of an underlying distribution of probability.
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Steam engine
A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.
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Stone tools have been used throughout human history but are most closely associated with prehistoric cultures and in particular those of the Stone Age.
Sumer
Sumer is the earliest known civilization, located in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia (now south-central Iraq), emerging during the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages between the sixth and fifth millennium BC.
Superintelligence
A superintelligence is a hypothetical agent that possesses intelligence far surpassing that of the brightest and most gifted human minds.
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Survey (human research)
In research of human subjects, a survey is a list of questions aimed for extracting specific data from a particular group of people.
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Sustainability
Sustainability is a social goal for people to co-exist on Earth over a long time.
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Sustainable energy
Energy is sustainable if it "meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." Definitions of sustainable energy usually look at its effects on the environment, the economy and society.
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Tap water
Tap water (also known as running water, piped water or municipal water) is water supplied through a tap, a water dispenser valve.
Techno-progressivism
Techno-progressivism, or tech-progressivism, is a stance of active support for the convergence of technological change and social change.
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Technogaianism
Technogaianism (a portmanteau word combining "techno-" for technology and "gaian" for Gaia philosophy) is a bright green environmentalist stance of active support for the research, development and use of emerging and future technologies to help restore Earth's environment.
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Technological determinism
Technological determinism is a reductionist theory in assuming that a society's technology progresses by following its own internal logic of efficiency, while determining the development of the social structure and cultural values. Technology and Technological determinism are technology systems.
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Technological singularity
The technological singularity—or simply the singularity—is a hypothetical future point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable consequences for human civilization.
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Technological unemployment
Technological unemployment is the loss of jobs caused by technological change.
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Technology education
Technology education, tech ed, or career and technical education is the study of technology, in which students "learn about the processes and knowledge related to technology".
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Technopaganism
Technopaganism is the merging of neopaganism and magical ritual with digital technologies.
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Technosignature
Technosignature or technomarker is any measurable property or effect that provides scientific evidence of past or present technology.
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Ted Kaczynski
Theodore John Kaczynski (May 22, 1942 – June 10, 2023), also known as the Unabomber, was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist.
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Telegraphy
Telegraphy is the long-distance transmission of messages where the sender uses symbolic codes, known to the recipient, rather than a physical exchange of an object bearing the message.
The Matrix
The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction action film written and directed by the Wachowskis.
The New York Review of Books
The New York Review of Books (or NYREV or NYRB) is a semi-monthly magazine with articles on literature, culture, economics, science and current affairs.
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The Quarterly Journal of Economics
The Quarterly Journal of Economics is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Oxford University Press for the Harvard University Department of Economics.
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The Technological Society
The Technological Society is a book on the subject of technique by French philosopher, theologian and sociologist Jacques Ellul.
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Thomson Corporation
The Thomson Corporation was one of the world's largest information companies.
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Tigris
The Tigris (see below) is the eastern of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates.
Tin
Tin is a chemical element; it has symbol Sn and atomic number 50.
A tool is an object that can extend an individual's ability to modify features of the surrounding environment or help them accomplish a particular task.
Total Recall (1990 film)
Total Recall is a 1990 American science-fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven, with a screenplay by Ronald Shusett, Dan O'Bannon, and Gary Goldman.
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Totalitarianism
Totalitarianism is a political system and a form of government that prohibits opposition political parties, disregards and outlaws the political claims of individual and group opposition to the state, and controls the public sphere and the private sphere of society.
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Tradesperson
A tradesperson or tradesman/woman is a skilled worker that specialises in a particular trade.
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Transhumanism
Transhumanism is a philosophical and intellectual movement that advocates the enhancement of the human condition by developing and making widely available new and future technologies that can greatly enhance longevity, cognition, and well-being.
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Transistor
A transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electrical signals and power.
Travois
A travois (Canadian French, from French travail; also travoise or travoy) is an A-frame structure that was used to drag loads over land, most notably by the Plains Indians of North America.
Trial and error
Trial and error is a fundamental method of problem-solving characterized by repeated, varied attempts which are continued until success, or until the practicer stops trying.
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Universal basic income
Universal basic income (UBI) is a social welfare proposal in which all citizens of a given population regularly receive a minimum income in the form of an unconditional transfer payment, i.e., without a means test or need to work.
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University of California Press
The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.
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University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England.
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University of Chicago Press
The University of Chicago Press is the university press of the University of Chicago, a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.
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University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England.
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University of South Carolina Press
The University of South Carolina Press is an academic publisher associated with the University of South Carolina.
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Ur
Ur was an important Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia, located at the site of modern Tell el-Muqayyar (mound of bitumen) in Dhi Qar Governorate, southern Iraq.
Uruk
Uruk, known today as Warka, was an ancient city in the Near East, located east of the current bed of the Euphrates River, on an ancient, now-dried channel of the river.
Utopia
A utopia typically describes an imaginary community or society that possesses highly desirable or near-perfect qualities for its members.
Vacuum tube
A vacuum tube, electron tube, valve (British usage), or tube (North America) is a device that controls electric current flow in a high vacuum between electrodes to which an electric potential difference has been applied.
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Viking Press
Viking Press (formally Viking Penguin, also listed as Viking Books) is an American publishing company owned by Penguin Random House.
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Water wheel
A water wheel is a machine for converting the energy of flowing or falling water into useful forms of power, often in a watermill.
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WeChat Pay
WeChat Pay, officially referred to as Weixin Pay in China, is a mobile payment and digital wallet service by WeChat based in China that allows users to make mobile payments and online transactions.
Western chimpanzee
The western chimpanzee or West African chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) is a Critically Endangered subspecies of the common chimpanzee.
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What Technology Wants
What Technology Wants is a 2010 nonfiction book by Kevin Kelly focused on technology as an extension of life.
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Wheel
A wheel is a rotating component (typically circular in shape) that is intended to turn on an axle bearing.
Wheelbarrow
A wheelbarrow is a small hand-propelled load-bearing vehicle, usually with just one wheel, designed to be pushed and guided by a single person using two handles at the rear.
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William Gibson
William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk.
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Wind power
Wind power is the use of wind energy to generate useful work.
Windmill
A windmill is a structure that converts wind power into rotational energy using vanes called sails or blades, by tradition specifically to mill grain (gristmills), but in some parts of the English-speaking world, the term has also been extended to encompass windpumps, wind turbines, and other applications.
World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international non-governmental organization, think tank, and lobbying organisation based in Cologny, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.
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3D printing
3D printing or additive manufacturing is the construction of a three-dimensional object from a CAD model or a digital 3D model.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology
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