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history of technology, the development over time of systematic techniques for making and doing things. The term technology, a combination of the Greek technē, "art, craft," with logos, "word, speech," meant in Greece a discourse on the arts, both fine and applied. When it first appeared in English in the 17th century, it was used to mean a discussion of the applied arts only, and gradually these "arts" themselves came to be the object of the designation. By the early 20th century the term embraced a growing range of means, processes, and ideas in addition to tools and machines. By mid-century technology was defined by such phrases as "the means or activity by which man seeks to change or manipulate his environment." Even such broad definitions have been criticized by observers who point out the increasing difficulty of distinguishing between scientific inquiry and technological activity.

A highly compressed account of the history of technology such as this one must adopt a rigorous methodological pattern if it is to do justice to the subject without grossly distorting it one way or another. The plan followed in the present article is primarily chronological, tracing the development of technology through phases that succeed each other in time. Obviously, the division between phases is to a large extent arbitrary. One factor in the weighting has been the enormous acceleration of Western technological development in recent centuries; Eastern technology is considered in this article in the main only as it relates to the development of modern technology.

Within each chronological phase a standard method has been adopted for surveying the technological experience and innovations. This begins with a brief review of the general social conditions of the period under discussion, and then goes on to consider the dominant materials and sources of power of the period, and their application to food production, manufacturing industry, building construction, transport and communications, military technology, and medical technology. In a final section the sociocultural consequences of technological change in the period are examined. This framework is modified according to the particular requirements of every period- discussions of new materials, for instance, occupy a substantial place in the accounts of earlier phases when new metals were being introduced but are comparatively unimportant in descriptions of some of the later phases-but the general pattern is retained throughout. One key factor that does not fit easily into this pattern is that of the development of tools. It has seemed most convenient to relate these to the study of materials, rather than to any particular application, but it has not been possible to be completely consistent in this treatment. Further discussion of specific areas of technological development is provided in a variety of other articles: for example, see electronics; exploration; information processing.

General considerations

Essentially, techniques are methods of creating new tools and products of tools, and the capacity for constructing such artifacts is a determining characteristic of humanlike species. Other species make artifacts: bees build elaborate hives to deposit their honey, birds make nests, and beavers build dams. But these attributes are the result of patterns of instinctive behaviour and cannot be varied to suit rapidly changing circumstances. Human beings, in contrast to other species, do not possess highly developed instinctive reactions but do have the capacity to think systematically and creatively about techniques. Humans can thus innovate and consciously modify the environment in a way no other species has achieved. An ape may on occasion use a stick to beat bananas from a tree, but a person can fashion the stick into a cutting tool and remove a whole bunch of bananas. Somewhere in the transition between the two, the hominid, the first humanlike species, emerges. By virtue of humanity's nature as a toolmaker, humans have therefore been technologists from the beginning, and the history of technology encompasses the whole evolution of humankind.

In using rational faculties to devise techniques and modify the environment, humankind has attacked problems other than those of survival and the production of wealth with which the term technology is usually associated today. The technique of language, for example, involves the manipulation of sounds and symbols in a meaningful way, and similarly the techniques of artistic and ritual creativity represent other aspects of the technological incentive. This article does not deal with these cultural and religious techniques, but it is valuable to establish their relationship at the outset because the history of technology reveals a profound interaction between the incentives and opportunities of technological innovation on the one hand and the sociocultural conditions of the human group within which they occur on the other.

Social involvement in technological advances

An awareness of this interaction is important in surveying the development of technology through successive civilizations. To simplify the relationship as much as possible, there are three points at which there must be some social involvement in technological innovation: social need, social resources, and a sympathetic social ethos. In default of any of these factors it is unlikely that a technological innovation will be widely adopted or be successful.

The sense of social need must be strongly felt, or people will not be prepared to devote resources to a technological innovation. The thing needed may be a more efficient cutting tool, a more powerful lifting device, a labour-saving machine, or a means of using new fuels or a new source of energy. Or, because military needs have always provided a stimulus to technological innovation, it may take the form of a requirement for better weapons. In modern societies, needs have been generated by advertising. Whatever the source of social need, it is essential that enough people be conscious of it to provide a market for an artifact or commodity that can meet the need.

Social resources are similarly an indispensable prerequisite to a successful innovation. Many inventions have foundered because the social resources vital for their realization-the capital, materials, and skilled personnel-were not available. The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci are full of ideas for helicopters, submarines, and airplanes, but few of these reached even the model stage because resources of one sort or another were lacking. The resource of capital involves the existence of surplus productivity and an organization capable of directing the available wealth into channels in which the inventor can use it. The resource of materials involves the availability of appropriate metallurgical, ceramic, plastic, or textile substances that can perform whatever functions a new invention requires of them. The resource of skilled personnel implies the presence of technicians capable of constructing new artifacts and devising novel processes. A society, in short, has to be well primed with suitable resources in order to sustain technological innovation.

A sympathetic social ethos implies an environment receptive to new ideas, one in which the dominant social groups are prepared to consider innovation seriously. Such receptivity may be limited to specific fields of innovation-for example, improvements in weapons or in navigational techniques-or it may take the form of a more generalized attitude of inquiry, as was the case among the industrial middle classes in Britain during the 18th century, who were willing to cultivate new ideas and inventors, the breeders of such ideas. Whatever the psychological basis of inventive genius, there can be no doubt that the existence of socially important groups willing to encourage inventors and to use their ideas has been a crucial factor in the history of technology.

Social conditions are thus of the utmost importance in the development of new techniques, some of which will be considered below in more detail. It is worthwhile, however, to register another explanatory note. This concerns the rationality of technology. It has already been observed that technology involves the application of reason to techniques, and in the 20th century it came to be regarded as almost axiomatic that technology is a rational activity stemming from the traditions of modern science. Nevertheless, it should be observed that technology, in the sense in which the term is being used here, is much older than science, and also that techniques have tended to ossify over centuries of practice or to become diverted into such para-rational exercises as alchemy. Some techniques became so complex, often depending upon processes of chemical change that were not understood even when they were widely practiced, that technology sometimes became itself a "mystery" or cult into which an apprentice had to be initiated like a priest into holy orders, and in which it was more important to copy an ancient formula than to innovate. The modern philosophy of progress cannot be read back into the history of technology; for most of its long existence technology has been virtually stagnant, mysterious, and even irrational. It is not fanciful to see some lingering fragments of this powerful technological tradition in the modern world, and there is more than an element of irrationality in the contemporary dilemma of a highly technological society contemplating the likelihood that it will use its sophisticated techniques in order to accomplish its own destruction. It is thus necessary to beware of overfacile identification of technology with the "progressive" forces in contemporary civilization.

On the other hand it is impossible to deny that there is a progressive element in technology, as it is clear from the most elementary survey that the acquisition of techniques is a cumulative matter, in which each generation inherits a stock of techniques on which it can build if it chooses and if social conditions permit. Over a long period of time the history of technology inevitably highlights the moments of innovation that show this cumulative quality as some societies advance, stage by stage, from comparatively primitive to more sophisticated techniques. But although this development has occurred and is still going on, it is not intrinsic to the nature of technology that such a process of accumulation should occur, and it has certainly not been an inevitable development. The fact that many societies have remained stagnant for long periods of time, even at quite developed stages of technological evolution, and that some have actually regressed and lost the accumulated techniques passed on to them, demonstrates the ambiguous nature of technology and the critical importance of its relationship with other social factors.

Modes of technological transmission

Another aspect of the cumulative character of technology that will require further investigation is the manner of transmission of technological innovations. This is an elusive problem, and it is necessary to accept the phenomenon of simultaneous or parallel invention in cases in which there is insufficient evidence to show the transmission of ideas in one direction or another. The mechanics of their transmission have been enormously improved in recent centuries by the printing press and other means of communication and also by the increased facility with which travelers visit the sources of innovation and carry ideas back to their own homes. Traditionally, however, the major mode of transmission has been the movement of artifacts and craftsmen. Trade in artifacts has ensured their widespread distribution and encouraged imitation. Even more important, the migration of craftsmen-whether the itinerant metalworkers of early civilizations or the German rocket engineers whose expert knowledge was acquired by both the Soviet Union and the United States after World War II-has promoted the spread of new technologies.

The evidence for such processes of technological transmission is a reminder that the material for the study of the history of technology comes from a variety of sources. Much of it relies, like any historical examination, on documentary matter, although this is sparse for the early civilizations because of the general lack of interest in technology on the part of scribes and chroniclers. For these societies, therefore, and for the many millennia of earlier unrecorded history in which slow but substantial technological advances were made, it is necessary to rely heavily upon archaeological evidence. Even in connection with the recent past, the historical understanding of the processes of rapid industrialization can be made deeper and more vivid by the study of "industrial archaeology." Much valuable material of this nature has been accumulated in museums, and even more remains in the place of its use for the observation of the field worker. The historian of technology must be prepared to use all these sources, and to call upon the skills of the archaeologist, the engineer, the architect, and other specialists as appropriate.

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IT would not be the same without the contributions of these pioneering men.

When people are asked to describe inventors, they often use one word: genius. As a society, we look upon the inventor with awe, and we fawn over his inventions with curiosity and admiration. We wonder, how did he do that? Where did he find his inspiration?

In the course of IT history, certain men have breathed life into groundbreaking technologies that most users now take for granted. In honor of Father's Day, and as a companion piece to our 10 Mothers of Technology, we've compiled a list of 10 men who have helped shape IT with their inventions. And for an updated look at some new fathers of technology and their impact on today's tech landscape, check out, " The New Fathers of Technology: 6 Men Whose Innovations Shape Our World."

Here's a toast to 10 fathers of technology.

Jack Nilles
Telework Titan

His impact on technology:
If your company has work-from-home Fridays, you can thank Jack Nilles. His efforts to define and promote the concept of telework is partially responsible.

People often jest that it "doesn't take a rocket scientist" to figure out solutions to common problems. Telework, it turns out, did. Jack Nilles was working as a rocket scientist in the early 1970s when he was struck by the amount of congestion on the roads. He realized that the daily commute that people made just to get to work was responsible for the stress-inducing traffic everyone had to suffer through.

To Nilles, the answer was obvious: Get people off the road by removing the requirement that they come into the office to work. With that goal in mind, he began working with a team at the University of Southern California to design, define and test a telework initiative at an insurance company using satellite offices, Nilles said in an interview with BizTech magazine.

As he later found out, technology wasn't the biggest obstacle in getting organizations and managers to accept telework - it was an old-fashioned mindset that work could only be done within the confines of an office.

"I learned early on that one of the key features of getting telecommuting going was patience and persistence," Nilles told BizTech magazine. "Now we've got millions of people doing [telework], and they'll even admit to it."

Over the past 40 years, teleworking has grown from a wild and crazy idea to an acceptable way of life, but one sweeping change Nilles sees coming down the road is the revolution of the office space.

"Downtown areas better start thinking about redesigning their skyscrapers for multiuse, because the trend is going to be that people won't want to go some great distance to get to work," he says. "Downtown Los Angeles, we told them, if you don't start redesigning things, you're going to end up with a wasteland, and now there's much more residential development in downtown LA."

Aside from a decreasing need for large amounts of commercial office space, the nature of what people do in the office is changing as well.

"The nature of the office now has changed. The office now, for many, is a place for communicating face to face. You still need some of that," Nilles says. "You don't need as much cubicle space as you need conference space."

Words of wisdom:
"It has always been the case from the very beginning that more people have location independent jobs than managers who will let them do it. So we're always well below the point where everyone who can do [telework] does." - Jack Nilles said in an interview with BizTech magazine

Photo: Lawson family

His impact on technology:
Gerald Lawson created the first cartridge-based video game system, the Fairchild Channel F. That invention pushed the video game industry forward into a flexible, diverse future - a world in which games were no longer married to their hardware (think Pong). Once players could switch games on a whim, game developers and software companies flourished.

The Atari 2600, the original Nintendo Entertainment System, the Sega Master System and many other classic video game systems owe their fortunes in part to Lawson's vision.

And yet, Lawson is not a well-known name in video game history - or tech history, for that matter. This, despite the fact that he was one of the few black members of the historic Homebrew Computer Club, which counted Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak as members.

Pong creator and Atari legend Allan Alcorn, who attended Lawson's funeral service, spoke highly of his gifts, praising him as a "pioneer" and a true original.

Marc Lawson is following in his father's footsteps as a senior product developer with NBA Digital. However, Marc is more of a software person, while his father was fond of hardware. Over time, Marc has grown to appreciate where his father was coming from.

"He came from an era of punch cards and assembly language programming, whereas I come from a world of C and Java and Objective-C, which is using libraries that actually talk to the hardware," Marc told BizTech magazine.

"He would comment that 'you guys don't really know what it is you're developing on.' It's black box to us. So being programmers, we'll write code without even understanding the architecture of the underlying hardware and what we can really do with it, because programming is abstracted. As I got a little older, I started to get a little bit more into the hardware side of things."

One interesting fact about Gerald Lawson: He actually wasn't a huge gamer himself, his son said. He was more interested in the technology behind video games than in playing them.

Tim Berners-Lee
Web Master

His impact on technology:
So profound is the global impact of Tim Berners-Lee's invention that it's hard to remember a time when common users worldwide could not communicate with one another instantly by computer. And yet, it was only 20 years ago that Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web.

When most people think of the Internet, they're really thinking of the World Wide Web (WWW), the information superhighway that we navigate through a browser. Berners-Lee also invented the first web browser (called the WorldWideWeb at first but later changed to Nexus to avoid confusion); the hypertext markup language (HTML); and the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP). These three components have made up what we consider the web for the past 20 years.

It all started in the European Particle Physics Laboratory at CERN with a memo that Berners-Lee sent suggesting a global hypertext system. His idea initially fell on deaf ears, but ultimately he got the go-ahead to experiment with a few NeXT computers, which he then used to bring his global hypertext idea to life. By 1991, Berners-Lee made the WWW available on the Internet.

Ken Thompson
OS Virtuoso

His impact on technology:
While DOS reigned supreme for much of the 1990s as the king of operating systems, as a 16-bit single-user OS it pales in comparison to UNIX, a multiuser 32/64-bit system developed by Ken Thompson more than 20 years earlier.

Thompson was part of a team of developers and researchers working at AT&T's Bell Labs in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Early versions of UNIX were written largely by Thompson, but the breakthrough version of UNIX was rewritten with Dennis Ritchie in the C language in 1972.

Since then, UNIX and popular UNIX-like operating systems, such as Linux, Android and Mac OS, have built on Thompson and Ritchie's legacy.

Where is he now?
Thompson continued at Bell Labs until 2000 and now works at Google as a distinguished engineer. He recently helped build Go, a new object-oriented programming language that he believes simplifies the unnecessary complexities of C++.

Thompson and his UNIX co-creator Ritchie have received several awards over the years for their UNIX invention, including the National Medal of Technology in 1999 and the Japan Prize last year.

If you're looking for big names like Steve Wozniak and Bill Gates on this list, don't fret. They weren't forgotten. They'll be included in our next list, Great Founders in Biz Tech, so stay tuned.

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IT would not be the same without the contributions of these pioneering men. When people are asked to describe inventors, they often use one word: genius. As a society, we look upon the inventor with awe, and we fawn over his inventions with curiosity and admiration. We wonder, how did he do that?

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We create technology to fill a void, need, or want. That's the essential part of it. We needed a way to communicate faster and better between vast distances than sending mail, which could take months to get from one point to another. So, humans invented the telephone to talk to one another.

But the telephone wasn't really great for sharing large amounts of information between people. For that we used to have (and still have) books. But man, books took a long time to ship from one place to another. Could we improve on this with technology? Yep, we invented the computer, and then the internet, to write and send vast amounts of information in almost an instant without the need for traditional mail.

Not all technology has to do with communication, of course. Microorganisms, little bugs you can't see that may potentially kill you, have killed hundreds of millions of people in the recent past. So, some big brains decided to come up with new technologies that helped us develop drugs that kill the microorganisms, such as vaccines that protect us against them, and so on.

Some technologies are less about need and more about want. Those super-expensive massage chairs? They help us feel better. The TV? It keeps us informed about world events but also gives us a good laugh when watching a comedy. Those super-processed cookies? We created technology to make those so we could more easily satisfy our sweet tooth.

Humans invented the wheel to move things like goods around without having to carry them. We invented the horse or oxen-pulled plow to help us grow more food. We created cars to help us get from one point to another faster. The list goes on forever. But you just need to remember one thing: We create technology to fill a need, void, or a want.

Oxen pulling a plow

Why is Technology Revised?

So why bother revising old technology? Why not keep the wheel made of stone? Why not use the horse-pulled plow? Why not use my grandma's rotary phone in every household?

We revise technology because we find more efficient, faster, and more convenient ways of doing the same thing. A stone wheel is cumbersome, heavy, and dangerous if it falls on you. A rubber wheel is far lighter and can be moved around far more easily. A plow pulled by a horse is nowhere near as effective or quick as a modern plow pulled by a tractor. That means we can plant more stuff to feed more mouths! And my grandma's rotary phone, as I can attest, takes forever to dial a number compared with modern touch-tone phones and cellphones.

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In August 2019, President Donald Trump announced the reestablishment of the United States Space Command as an official part of the U.S. Department of Defense, leading up to what he described as a "Space Force" division of the U.S. military. Many see this as the beginning of the militarization of space, with new weapons and new technologies designed to protect and attack satellites in orbit.

Those with an interest in history would not be surprised by this. In 2007, the Chinese had shot down one of their own satellites, which could be interpreted as a demonstration of their military's technological capabilities. Back in 1985, Ronald Reagan had previously set up a U.S. Space Command, which was later merged into the U.S. Strategic Command following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

The promise or threat of using space technology as a method of gaining the upper hand in military operations is only the latest in a series of innovations that goes back at least 400,000 years, when the first stone-tipped spear was thrown.

Technology Improvements vs. Technological Breakthroughs

While military leaders may long for a great technological breakthrough that would turn a war in their favor or eliminate the threat of war, such breakthroughs are actually quite rare. In most cases, it's incremental changes to existing technologies that give one side an edge over the other. The Roman empire, perhaps the greatest military power in history, knew this very well.

While they are well-known today for siege weapons, triremes, roads and the weapons used by their legions, the Romans didn't actually do as much inventing as they did borrow and improve upon the ideas of others. If one of their many enemies had a superior technology, the Romans had no qualms about stealing it, as was the case in their adoption and adaptation of the Carthage triremes in the First Punic War. The Romans also saw the benefits of roads used by the Persians and Egyptians for moving armies quickly from one place to another and improved upon the technology, constructing 29 major highways all radiating from the capital, with the empire interconnected by a total of 372 roads.

The same can be seen in modern times. The tank was originally developed in World War I but had almost no effect on the outcome of the war, and it took another 20 years for the tank to become a major force in the battlefield in World War II. Iron ships first appeared during the American Civil War and would change naval warfare forever, but when the Monitor and Merrimack met, the battle ended in a draw and had no effect on that war. The same can be said of the fighter jet and the modern rocket, both developed by the Germans before they lost World War II.

The Impact of Technology on Warfare

None of this is to say that superior technology isn't an important or even vital element for victory. However, it's almost always the incremental improvements that contribute to victory, combined with superior strategies, tactics and, of course, a country's economic production capabilities.

A classic example of this is the development of aircraft technology in the Pacific Theater of World War II. At the outset of the war in 1941, the Japanese Zero was vastly superior to the American's Hawker Hurricane or Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk. It could fly faster and higher and was more maneuverable than what the Americans had at the beginning of the war. However, as the war progressed, the Japanese could not keep up with the pace of innovation and amount of production by the United States, due in no small measure to the U.S.'s superior economic output.

Perhaps the greatest and most horrific technological breakthrough in military history was the invention of the atomic bomb. Most people believe that the atomic bomb forced the surrender of Japan, bringing an end to World War II. However, many historians recognize that this was not in fact what ended the war, and it was in all likelihood the massive invasion of the Soviet Red Army that led to Japan's surrender, which began the same day that Nagasaki was bombed.

Positive Effects of Military Technology on Society

Military technology advances frequently pave the way for advances that benefit society during periods of peace. Perhaps one of the most iconic examples can be found in the U.S. and Soviet space programs of the 1950s and 1960s. The same V2 rockets that Nazi Germany had used to terrorize London during World War II became the basis of both the U.S. and Soviet space programs.

Neil Armstrong would not have been the first man to land on the moon if it had not been for the V2 rocket technology. In fact, the chief architect of NASA's Apollo Saturn V rocket was Wernher von Braun, inventor of the V2.

Ambulances were originally developed by the Spanish in 1487 as a way to get wounded soldiers away from the battleground quickly. Of course, they were not motorized back then.

The internet is a direct descendant of the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, which connected military and educational institutions.

The GPS was originally developed by the U.S. Department of Defense.

Duct tape was invented during World War II as a water-resistant way to seal ammunition cases.

Weather radar evolved from radio detection and ranging technology developed during World War II.

Microwave ovens also evolved from RADAR developments in World War II.

Digital cameras came from technology used to capture high-resolution images from spy satellites.

Computers as we know them today would not be possible if it weren't for Colossus, the first electronic computer, which was used to break Nazi encrypted messages.

Jet engines were patented in 1930 but were not seriously developed until World War II. The first jet fighter was the German Messerschmitt Me 262, which came out in 1944.

Synthetic rubber was developed during World War II due to a shortage of natural rubber.

Though it wasn't released until 1958, super glue was invented as part of the war effort during World War II.

Known today for combating severe allergic reactions, the EpiPen was developed as a way to treat soldiers in case of chemical warfare.

History of Military Technology Timeline

From prehistory to modern times, the timeline of military technological developments is an upward curve. Developments were very slow for the first several thousand years, accelerating quickly into the 20th century.

400,000 B.C.: The earliest evidence of humans using spears dates back to the Paleolithic Age, discovered near the town of Schöningen, Germany in 1994.

40,000 to 25,000 B.C.: The atlatl was the predecessor to the bow and arrow, which flung flexible darts at a distance of about 44 yards.

23,000 B.C.: The oldest boomerang was discovered in a cave in Poland and was made from mammoth tusk. Boomerangs were used throughout Europe and Africa.

20,000 B.C.: The earliest use of bows and arrows date to this time based on discoveries of arrowheads.

5300 B.C.: The first horses were domesticated on the steppes of Kazakhstan.

5000 B.C.: Bronze weapons appear, beginning with daggers and then swords.

1200 B.C.: The dawn of the Iron Age soon makes bronze weapons obsolete.

500 B.C.: Two artillery weapons appear. The trebuchet is developed in China, while the Greeks develop the ballista.

1000: The Chinese invent gunpowder and, under the Song Dynasty, use it in warfare.

1260: Egyptian soldiers use hand cannons at the Battle of Ain Jalut.

1415: At the Battle of Agincourt, the outnumbered English defeat the French using longbows.

1368-1644: China's Ming Dynasty begins developing new gunpowder firearms, including matchlocks, muskets and naval mines.

1750: Rockets begin to appear on battlefields.

1775: American David Bushnell invents the first submarine to be used against British naval vessels.

1803: British troops begin using Shrapnel shells, invented by Henry Shrapnel.

1836: Samuel Colt patents his revolver.

1851: Appearance of the first machine gun, the multibarreled mitrailleuse, followed soon by the Gatling gun.

1862: The first iron-clad warship, the USS monitor, appears in the U.S. Civil War.

1914: The British introduce the first tanks to the battlefields of World War I.

1945: The first atomic bomb is tested in New Mexico in July. In August, bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

1952: The first hydrogen bomb is detonated in the Marshall Islands. Instead of fission, the hydrogen bomb uses fusion, making it much more powerful.

1960: The laser is invented, which would later be used for missile targeting systems.

Advancements in Technology Compared to Strategies

Advancements in military technology have a major impact on military strategies. There could have been no blitzkrieg ("lightning war") at the dawn of World War II, for example, without the advancements the German Wehrmacht had made in its Panzer tanks, combined with its decision to place those tanks in separate units rather than keeping them behind to support the infantry, as had been the norm until 1939.

The development of rifled barrels and soft-lead minie balls during the American Civil War had horrendous consequences for troops on both sides of the battlefield. Not accustomed to these advanced weapons, military commanders continuously failed to adapt their strategies. The Battle of Gettysburg alone resulted in 28,063 Confederate casualties from an original force of 75,000 men and 23,049 Union casualties from an original force of 82,289 men. It was not until the war was nearly over that they adopted appropriate defensive strategies, including advanced fortifications and the use of trenches.

By 1914, weapons had continued to outpace strategies, particularly with improvements in machine guns and artillery and, to a slightly lesser degree, chemical warfare. At the outset of World War I, most had anticipated a fast conclusion after only a few months. Instead, the result was once again horrifically massive losses of life on both sides and a near stalemate in Western Europe's thousands of miles of trenches that lasted for nearly four years.

Military Technology as a Peacekeeper

So bloody had been World War I that it was believed for many years that nobody would want to fight another war again. The League of Nations was established to resolve conflicts peacefully and to make war obsolete. While this hope, like the League of Nations, lasted less than 20 years, World War II may have been the war to end all world wars due to the development of atomic weapons.

When both sides of a conflict have the ability to annihilate every human on the planet, the prospect of another world war would be, quite literally, insane. It should be no surprise that the United States and its nemesis the Soviet Union engaged in a Cold War instead, with hot wars limited to specific regions of the globe. For the most part, the Cold War was limited to technological bragging rights, as illustrated by the space race of the 1950s and 1960s.

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Modern Technology is something which needs our eyes on. The latest technology changed a lot from what we saw in the last decade or the past century. New machines and gadgets are invented to make the jobs easier like never before. From the little tailor machine to the fastest car in the world, all got automated reducing the manual actions required to the least. Modern technology schools made it easier for the students to extract the possibilities of the latest tech inventions. Their impact is enormous in crafting a perfect generation who are expertized in the current technology stuff.

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What is Modern Technology?

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If you are seeking for the advantages and disadvantages of the modern technology, here are few of them which are more oriented to the modern technology than the overall tech. For a better-described view, you can visit the above-provided link.

Advantages of Modern Technology

As we already discussed in the above sections, technology is something which we can't avoid in our life. Here we listed why we can't live without technology. You can name them the advantages of modern technology or the pros of modern technology.

Innovation and Creativity took into the next level

Much convenient to learn and grab information

Communications features improved

Increased the efficiency of people to complete particular tasks

Huge impact in the education industry

Connected people together through social networking

Transportation facilities boosted the productivity

The lifestyle became easier

Improved diagnosis and curing equipment enhanced the health industry

Entertainment gadgets improved to the extreme

Improved the problem-solving ease

Helped small businesses to grow faster

Numerous equipment got lesser prices with new technologies

Disadvantages of Modern Technology

However, the modern technology got some disadvantages too. Like anything in the world which has got a good side and a bad, the modern technology also has the same. Have a look at the below-listed cons of modern technology to get a complete idea.

Job insecurity due to the excessive use of robots and machines

Increased competition in the field

Affected the social life by keeping people attached to the tech gadgets

Creation of harmful weapons and machinery

Increased pollution of air, water, and soil

Cyber crimes increased, and almost anything is destructible by brilliant hackers

Examples of Modern Technologies

Here is a small list of modern technology inventions that turned our lives easier and enhanced the entertainment industry. This one is a small list just to give an idea to you. If you need a bigger one, have a look at our article on examples of technology.

VR Headsets

In this modernized tech world, the place of VR headsets is no more hidden. The virtual world is directly taken in front of your eyes by just wearing a box-shaped headset. As you can see in the above image, the VR headsets are very convenient and easily available in the stores. Here is a funny video prank on a man who wore the VR headset and a rollercoaster is taken in front of his eyes. Watching it will give you an exact idea about the power of VR headsets in tricking your eyes and mind.

Smartwatches

Smartwatches are just a variation of regular watches but coming with a whole bunch of features as your smartphone. You can make calls, text your friends, browse the internet, and even take photos sometimes. In the contemporary tech world, the smartwatches does stand a chance in increasing the productivity of the users. Instead of taking out the smartphone each time to answer a call, or text a friend, it is way much easier to use your own watch. The Apple Watch Series 2 and Samsung Gear S3 are some best examples of smartwatches.

Robots

Robotics improved a lot in the last few years. Numerous new inventions arrived on the market in various forms and for various uses. The robots also widened the possibility of modern technology in education. They are being used to assist the teachers, help students, clean blackboards, clean the classrooms, etc. in hi-tech countries like Japan. They also invented robots which answer to humans utilizing artificial intelligence. Look at the following video to get a better idea about how far we reached in the robotics.

Bitcoin

While the modern technology gadgets are discussed above, it is the time for something different. Bitcoin might be the best choice when it comes to the digital tech world. It is a virtual money created by a person who is still not recognized completely. To understand the importance of Bitcoin you have to hear the present-day rate of it. 1 Bitcoin = 896.15 US Dollars as per 01/25/2017. Once it reached even around 1100+. But one of the major disadvantages of the Bitcoin is the randomly changing value. The below-given video will provide more information.

What to Expect in Future?

The technology is being modernized each and every day. So, there is no doubt that it will keep improving day-by-day limitlessly. As new tech machines and gadgets are invented to boost the current productivity of the tech inventions, the procedures will get accelerated to a great extent. In other words, technology can be utilized to create new technologies effectively and efficiently. The upcoming years will be of traveling to the outer planets and creating a better world with the help of robots.

All other contemporary tech stuff will keep improving, and the level of improvements is beyond predictions. And yes, the smartphones, tablets, laptops will all improve a lot in the coming years, and we may soon be able to enjoy the on-air control of devices as we saw in numerous Hollywood movies. The only thing scientists and thinker should be taken care is to protect the dangerous inventions from reaching the wrong hands. The nuclear fission was put forward by Albert Einstein with a good thought, but being used for destroying humanity. So, let's hope for the good.

Now you know the modern technology advantages and disadvantages as well as other things described above. You can use this information for your modern technology essay or any articles related to it. The only thing we have to conclude is that we can't live without the technology especially the "modern technology."

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Modern Technology is something which needs our eyes on. The latest technology changed a lot from what we saw in the last decade or the past century. New machines and gadgets are invented to make the jobs easier like never before.