What is Technology?
Definition The term "technology" rose to prominence in the 20th century in connection with the Second Industrial Revolution . The term's meanings changed in the early 20th century when American social scientists, beginning with Thorstein Veblen , translated ideas from the German concept of Technik into "technology." In German and other European languages, a distinction exists between technik and technologie that is absent in English, which usually translates both terms as "technology." By the 1930s, "technology" referred not only to the study of the industrial arts but to the industrial arts themselves Science OR Engineering The distinction between science, engineering, and technology is not always clear. Science is systematic knowledge of the physical or material world gained through observation and experimentation. Technologies are not usually exclusively products of science, because they have to satisfy requirements such