about technology

Technology
Some of us think technology is good or something new. In fact, if we read the history, technology has a very long-lived and is a contemporary phenomenon. Every era has its own technology. 

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In entering the Era of Industrialization, the achievement is determined by the mastery of technology because technology is the engine of growth through the industry. Therefore, it is appropriate if we reflect on issues of technology, the inventory we have, figure out what we want to accomplish and how to obtain the technology that we need it, and observe how much impact on the transformation of our culture.

History of Technology

Technological developments in evolutionary progress. Since the days of Ancient Rome thinking and results-oriented culture has been visible to the field of technology. 

Etymologically, the root word is the technology "techne" which means the set of rational principles or methods relating to the creation of an object, or a particular skill, or knowledge of the principles or methods, and art. The term itself for the first time the technology used by Philips in 1706 in a book entitled Technology: A Description Of The Arts, Especially The Mechanical. 

Understanding Technology 
Technology is the development of a medium/tool that can be used more efficiently in order to process and controlling a problem. 

Progress Technology 
In its simplest form, technological advances resulting from the development of old methods or the invention of new methods in solving the traditional tasks such as planting, making clothes, or build a house. 

There are three basic classifications of technological progress, namely:

• Neutral technological progress occurs when the level of expenditure (output) achieved higher with the combination of quantity and income factors (input) the same.
• The progress of labor-saving technology technological advances that have occurred since the late nineteenth century was marked by many rapidly growing labor-saving technology in producing everything from nuts to bike up to the bridge.
• Capital-saving technological progress is a relatively rare phenomenon. This is mainly because almost all studies of technology and science in the world conducted in developed countries, which is intended to save labor, not capital.

Experience in various developing countries demonstrate that direct interference is excessive, especially in the form of government regulation is too strict, in the market for foreign technology, which inhibits the flow of foreign technology into developing countries. As the history of the kingdom of Meiji Japan by changing its laws on the outside culture. 

On the other hand a policy of 'open doors for a long time' against the flow of foreign technology, especially in the form of foreign investment (PMA), which inhibits greater independence in the process of developing technological capabilities of developing countries because of too great reliance on the part of foreign investors, since it is they who make all efforts are difficult and complicated technology.

Source: http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teknologi, with a little change.