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All technologies are born out of purpose. For example, search engines were
created to sort through the massive amounts of data online. With each new
upgrade technology compounds existing technologies to create something
better than what was previously useTHE PRESENT: SNAPS, ETC.
Since the days of dial-up, access to the Internet is available almost
everywhere. It is rare these days for consumers to go into a coffee shop,
library or any place of business and not be able to access a Wi-Fi signal. If
there isn’t a Wi-Fi signal in close range, most people still have access to the
Internet via their cellular data connection on their smartphones and personal
hotspots.
History Of technological Evolution
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 labor to
more efficiently achieve his objective. Later animal-
powered tools such as the plow and the horse, increased
the productivity of food production about tenfold over
the technology of the hunter-gatherers. Tools allow one
to do things impossible to accomplish with one's body
alone, such as seeing minute visual detail with a
microscope, manipulating heavy objects with a pulley
and cart, or carrying volumes of water in a bucket.
The second technological stage was the creation of the
machine. A machine (a powered machine to be more
precise) is a tool that substitutes part of or all of the
element of human physical effort, requiring only the
control of its functions. Machines became widespread
with the industrial revolution, though windmills, a type
of machine, are much older.
The Technology In The 20th Century