Definition and usage
Technology comes from the Greek word “technologia,” which means “craft” and “logia,” which means “saying.”[1] In general, technology is how society interacts with its tools and crafts and how much control it has over its environment.
The following is a definition of the term from the Merriam-Webster dictionary:the functional use of information particularly in a specific region” and “a capacity given by the pragmatic utilization of knowledge”.[2]Ursula Franklin, in her 1989 “Genuine Universe of Innovation” address, gave one more meaning of the idea;
It is defined as “practice, the way we do things around here.”[3] The term is frequently used rather than to refer to technology as a whole to a specific area of technology, high technology, or just consumer electronics.In Technics and Time, 1 by Bernard Stiegler, technology is defined in two ways:as “organized inorganic matter” and “the pursuit of life via means other than life.””[4]
