The totality of the means employed to provide objects necessary for human sustenance and comfort. At the beginning of the 21 st century the word technology is most often associated with or assumed to mean that which relates to computers. Global focus on computer technology has brought about the idea that the pure meaning of technology relates to the development and use of computer driven systems. The boundaries and parallel fields of technology are far more reaching. Depending on our focus , artificial intelligence or interplanetary space travel could become synonymous with technology.
Technology continues to be an integral part of human development.
Information processing and communication as we know it today is a culmination of technological events and parallel fields of study. All other fields of technology continue to thrive, they did not disappear with the advent of the information age. By Wendell G. Johnson .