Technology
this map is about how we can define technology based on different references given in the map
1. what I thought it was
1.1. Artificial Intelligence
1.1.1. Phones
1.1.2. Laptops
1.1.3. Robots
1.2. Appliances
1.2.1. Microwave Oven
1.2.2. Refrigerator
1.3. Motor vehicles
1.3.1. Cars
1.3.2. Bikes
1.3.3. Airplanes
2. what I think it is now
2.1. How my idea changed
2.1.1. Initially I just thought that technology is all about AI and mechanics but after taking this module my idea changed
2.1.1.1. We have to learn and investigate more about technology to better understand what it is.
2.1.1.2. Technology is not only about machines or Artificial intelligence but things like chair, table and pencil, that makes our lives easy are also considered as technology
2.1.1.3. "In short, technology is more than a collection of machines and devices. To go beyond simplistic intuitions about technology requires investigation of the human mind and socio-cultural environment as well as interactions with technological artifacts" (Isman, 2012, 208) (Adil Syed, 2024)
2.1.2. Why we need new techologies
2.1.2.1. to meet our needs and make our daily life easy.
2.1.2.2. to live or survive
2.1.2.3. to adapt
2.1.2.4. for safe and better future
2.1.2.5. to increase knowledge
2.1.2.6. to make everything more accessible to everyone.
2.1.3. technology is difficut to explain as everyone has their own opinion about it.
2.1.3.1. Earlier I thought it was just to make people's life easier but it also results in meeting individual's need.
2.1.3.2. Technology is the creating new things or projects through a process that makes the life of a person easier and helps them to adapt accordingly to the nature.
2.2. Technology is the creating new things or projects through a process that makes the life of a person easier and helps them to adapt accordingly to the nature.
2.2.1. Megantz (2002) states that technology is a wonderful, amazing, always-changing bags of tricks that help the human being to live healthier, happier and more fulfilling lives (although these could take place the other way around)
2.2.1.1. Contractor and Sagafi-Nejad (1981) describe technology simply as “a bundle of information, rights and services”
2.2.1.1.1. If we don't have fire we actually could not live.( Kelly
2.2.1.2. Dyer J. (2009) said that “technology” could be a clock, a shovel, a laptop, a belt, a thermometer, a can of root beer, a canteen, a tank, or a fake duck decoy. These are basically things do not occur “naturally” – which, for theists, are things God himself did not make.
2.2.2. Process
2.2.2.1. Dean and LeMaster (1995), technology is defined as “firm-specific information concerning characteristics and performance properties of production processes and product design”
2.2.2.2. Maskus (2004) defines technology as “the information necessary to achieve a certain production outcome from a particular mean of combining or processing selected inputs”
2.2.3. Product