Definition: technology

Applying a systematic technique, method or approach to solve a problem. Except for mechanical solutions, all of today's technologies use computers in one way or another. Even devices without any chips or electrical motors were most likely designed with computers. See high tech, microcontroller and computer.




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The Bottom Line
Technology giveth and taketh. Households worldwide have a TV with an endless selection of entertainment. The smartphone can deliver in seconds everything the world has to offer to more than half the planet.

Yet technology has added layers of complexity from the underlying code running in billions of computers that people never see to what they do see when navigating a poorly designed app. Most desktop and mobile apps are created in isolation from all the others, and there is hardly any software application that cannot be made easier to use (see first-time user and user interface).

Today, social media enables everyone on earth to be a publisher of news and as a result, objective truth has disappeared. What is true or false depends on the sources we follow for whatever reasons they have gained our trust. On top of that, add in all the security breaches, viruses, ransomware, spammers and scammers, and there is the omnipresent fear that someone is out to get us.

Like most things in life, technology is indeed both good and bad. See Systemantics.