Technology Development - Tech Bolgs

Internet The  Internet  ( portmanteau  of  interconnected network ) is the global system of interconnected  computer networks  that use the  Internet protocol suite  (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide. It is a  network of networks  that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked  hypertext  documents and  applications  of the  World Wide Web  (WWW),  electronic mail ,  telephony , and  file sharing . The origins of the Internet date back to research commissioned by the  federal government of the United States  in the 1960s to build robust, fault-tolerant communication with computer networks. The primary precursor network, the  ARPA...

Theory of technological evolution Mankind In Transition ; A View of the Distant Past, the Present and the Far Future , Masefield Books, 1993.  Technology  (which Richta defines as "a material entity created by the application of mental and physical effort to nature in order to achieve some value") evolves in three stages: tools, machine,  automation . This evolution, he says, follows two trends: Development The pre-technological period, in which all other animal species remain today - aside from some avian and primate species - was a non-rational period of the early  prehistoric man . The emergence of technology, made possible by the development of the rational faculty, paved the way for the first stage: the tool. A tool provides a mechanical advantage in accomplishing a physical task, such as an arrow, plow, or hammer that augments physical labour to more efficiently achieve his objective. Later animal-powered tools such as the plow and the hors...