This lack of conceptual understanding in most of our adults demonstrates the tremendeous need to promote technological literacy in future adults. To fully understand the nature, scope, and significance of technology, one must view it broadly and comprehensively. Technology results in intended as well as unintended impacts to individuals, societies, and the environment. The products of technology are devices, systems, processes, and environments. Technology has associated modes of creative thought and action which center on design and problem solving.
Technological knowledge grows at an exponential rate.
Technology encompasses many disciplines, known as technologies. Technology is the use of tools and processes to make our lives better by extending our human capabilities. As technologies evolve, they exhibit simple to complex patterns of development which utilize and combine other technologies. To the average person, technology is a black box . Although technology and science are interrelated and, in many respects, depend on one another, technology has its own unique body of knowledge and associated modes of thinking.