User warning: The following module is missing from the file system: file_entity. The notion of appropriate technology was developed in the 20th century by thinkers such as E. F. Schumacher and Jacques Ellul to describe situations where it was not desirable to use very new technologies or those that required access to some centralized infrastructure or parts or skills imported from elsewhere.
From traveling to communication everywhere technology is playing an important role and making human life trouble-free. People are becoming successful because of these modern technologies and it makes our work faster and easier. As a cultural activity, technology predates both science and engineering , each of which formalize some aspects of technological endeavor.
More recently, the scholars have borrowed from European philosophers, technique, to expand the meaning of technology to various forms of instrumental reason, as in Foucault’s work on techniques de soi, which translates as the technologies …
