technology quotes

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Albert Einstein 


The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Bill Gates

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Bill Gates 



The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
John F. Kennedy 



 Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.
Jean Arp



One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard 


The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
Oscar Wilde

what is technology and why is it important

what is it exactly?

over the years, technology has changed as a one meaning term to a term with multiple meanings such as:
Objects:
Tools, machines, instruments, weapons, appliances - the physical devices of technical performance
Knowledge:
The know-how behind technological innovation
Activities:
What people do - their skills, methods, procedures, routines
Process:
Begins with a need and ends with a solution
Sociotechnical System:
The manufacture and use of objects involving people and other objects in combination
 
Technology has very interesting characteristics as well:

It is Related to Science.
High technology industries are examples of the relationship of technology and science. Not very much technology can be classified as applied science. Technology is marked by different purposes, different processes and different relationship to established knowledge and a particular relationship to specific contexts of activity.

It Involves Design
At the center of technology lies design. That design is the heart of engineering is stated by the requirement that all degree engineering courses should embody it. The design process in technology is a sequential process which begins with the perception of a need, continues with the formulation of a specification, the generation of ideas and a final solution, and ends with an evaluation of the solution.

It Involves Making
The motivating factor behind all technological activity is the desire to fulfill a need. It's because of this that all designs should be made or realized if the need is to be truly fulfilled, the design is to be legitimately evaluated, and the design activity is to have been purposeful and worthwhile.

It is Multidimensional
technology involves technologists in performing many functions, such as working with others, operating within budgets, persuading decision makers, communicating to clients and working to deadlines.

It Is Concerned With Values
Technology is informed by values as well. Value decisions may be called for not only in relation to the specific design criteria, but also in relation to the right or wrong of a particular solution in ethical terms.

It is Socially Shaped/Shaping
Technological enterprises are determined by social interests. Of the new technologies available at any time, only a few are developed and become widely implemented. In this way technology is shaped by society, by consumer choice. yet it could also be argued that technology shapes society.


why is it important?

Technology brings importance everywhere and anywhere. in schools, technology is used to be able to teach more students and teach much easier via projector and to help give visual notes for future study. technology is also used in many ways for entertainment and fun. The video game console and the television are great examples of entertainment in technology. Another huge and important use of technology is transportation such as airplanes, cars, trucks, trains and much more these are all used in our favor to get to places much faster and efficient. 

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the boiler cylinder and piston

Boiler, cylinder and piston: AD 1704-1712
Two metalworkers, Thomas Newcomen, and John Calley, are making good progress in some potentially very profitable experiments. They know the high cost of the horse-driven pumps that raise water from the copper and tin mines. So they are working on a steam pump. Though unaware of this, they are combining two elements pioneered separately, Papin's piston and Savery's separation of the boiler from the cylinder.
In Newcomen's engine the piston is attached by an iron chain to one end of a beam which seesaws on a central pivot. At the other end of the beam another chain leads down to the water-pumping mechanism. Steam released from the boiler into the cylinder pushes up the piston. When the cylinder is full of steam cold water poured on the outside condenses the steam and creates the vacuum. But in this case, instead of directly sucking up water, the vacuum causes the piston to descend in the cylinder. This activates the pump at the end.
As so often in the advance of science and technology, an accident provides Newcomen with the refinement which brings his pump up to an economic speed. A flaw develops in one of the seams of his cylinder. As a result some cold water, intended only to flow down the outside, gets into the cylinder when it is full of steam. It creates a vacuum so rapid and so powerful that it snaps the chain attaching the piston to the beam. With this event another lasting feature of the steam engine is discovered. In all Newcomen's developed engines, which soon start work in England's mines, the steam is condensed by a jet of cold water injected into the cylinder.
The first of Newcomen's working engines is installed in 1712. It operates successfully for thirty years, as the first of many in the mining districts of Britain. Even with Newcomen's improvements, these machines are suitable only for the slow relentless work of pumping in the mines.

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