Development of Technology in Modern Times – Contemporary Technological Progress – In entering the Era of Industrialization, the achievement is determined by the mastery of technology because technology is the engine of growth through the industry. Therefore, the exact momentum if we reflect on issues of technology, the inventory we have, figure out what we want to accomplish and how to obtain the technology that we need it, and observe how a large impact on the transformation of our culture. Some of us think technology is good or something new but, if we read the history, technology has a very long lasting and is a contemporary phenomenon. Every era has its own technology.
Technological developments in evolutionary progress. Since the days of Ancient Rome thinking and results-oriented culture has been visible to the field of technology. Etymologically, the root word is the technology “techne” which means a set of principles or rational methods relating to the making of an object, or a particular skill, or knowledge of the principles or methods, and art. The term itself for the first time the technology used by Philips in 1706 in a book titled
In its simplest form, technological advances resulting from the development of old methods or the invention of new methods in solving the traditional tasks such as grow crops, make clothes, or build a house.
There are three basic classifications of technological progress, namely:
* Advances in technology that are neutral (in English: neutral technological progress)
Occurs when the level of expenditure (output) is higher achieved with a combination of quantity and income factors (input) the same.
* The progress of labor-saving technology (English: labor-saving technological progress)
The technological advances that have occurred since the late nineteenth century was marked by many rapidly growing labor-saving technology in producing everything from nuts to bike up to the bridge.
* Capital-saving technological progress (English: capital-saving technological progress)
The phenomenon is relatively rare. This is mainly due to almost all technological and scientific research in the world conducted in developed countries, which is intended to save labor, not capital.
Experience in various developing countries shows that direct intervention is excessive, especially in the form of government regulation is too strict, in the market for foreign technology actually inhibits the flow of foreign technology to developing countries. On the other hand a policy of ‘open doors for a long time’ against the flow of foreign technology, especially in the form of foreign investment (PMA), it inhibits greater independence in the process of developing technological capabilities of developing countries because of too great reliance on foreign investors, since it is they who make all efforts are difficult and complicated technology.
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