Question

what is the more acceptable definition of technology? Is it instrumental or anthropological? Explain your side with an essay of not less than 400 words.

Answer 1

Technology can be defined to be as the sum of techniques, skills or method that is used in the production of goods or services to complete an objective.

In simple words we cna say that the technology is the development of the basic tools. The development of technology also refers to the advancement of those basic tools only. Technology plays a very crucial role in building economies of the world. In the present world we can see that all those economies which are growing at a faster pace are having big technological advancement in the country.

It has been also noted that technology has changed its meaning over the last 200 years. Before the 20th century it was used to refer to the description of the useful arts. But after 20th century the term greatly resemled with the revolution in industries.

# According to me Technology is anthropology. Explanation for my view is as follows:-

For convinience i am just terming Technology as Advancement. Now most of the time it is not the technology which matters rather the thing that matters is that how people react to it and what new social norms they form.

Whenever a technology is to be get advancement then people forecasts different views about that. For example iphone was thought to get flop because people thought that the users will detest the touch screen interface. But what actually happened was iphones became so popular. So these people who forecasted this fall were wrong about how their own society and culture would respond to this new stimulus. They were anthropologically wrong.

It is very hard to get a perfect idea how people react to the technological advancement because we live in a constantly shifting and evoloving encironment.

This does'nt apply to just the developing phase of the technology. The irruption phase has it's own anthrapology. But irruption effects the smaller sector of the economy because their mostly participants are technologists themselves hence it is easier for them to explore how the project works with the change in the society.

The met- anthropoligical theory simply says that what the high technology do today will be less technical tomorrow.

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