understanding technology

Technology is the development of a medium or tool that can be used more efficiently in order to process and control a problem. 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.
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 word technology is the "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 arts.The term for the first time the technology used by Philips in 1706 in a book entitled Technology: A Description Of The Arts, Especially The Mechanical.

There are three basic classifications of technological progress that is :

1. neutral technological progress
    Occurs when the level of expenditure (output) is higher achieved with a combination of quantity and income factors (inputs) the same.

2. 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.

3. 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 countries other hand berkembang.Di a policy of 'open doors for a long time' to the current foreign technology, especially in the form of foreign investment, 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.