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Technology: The Essence of the Future

RING RING! The alarm clock goes off. It may be in a shape of a clock, phone, or the trusty PDA. Next, walking outside, many vehicles whiz by on the paved streets, smoothed by other construction vehicles and tools. Driving in the cities, buildings tower above anything possible, all the metal parking meters standing around, signs cut out by lasers, radio towers and satellite dishes sending messages around the world, telephone lines with their ribbons of wires lined up like trees. Entering the work place or a place of education, libraries are brimming with computers, connected to the all-knowing World Wide Web. Many applications and programs are at a click of a finger with a mouse or a tablet pen helping create documents, artwork, presentations, and infinite forms of media. A buzz shake a pocket or a purse sitting on the ground. There is a caller from across the country waiting to hear your voice travel across the signals in real-time. When heading to a doctor’s office, checking on health takes a few minutes, using digital thermometers, x-ray and even brain scanning MRI’s. Heading home, a television waits to show its vast varieties of entertainment from cartoons to live sports. Throughout the home under its concrete skin, exist the wiring of electricity, pipes to bring fresh, drinkable water and clearing of the dirty used water to be refreshed. Vents carry cooling or warming air into the environment. Now just time to set the alarm clock again to make sure the next day is started at the right time. Even just the simple trip around town can show you all that technology is involved it. Even in the living spaces of society, technology brims near in every square foot that you walk in. With the simple fact of technology does not just apply to the new age devices but to the mechanics of plumbing and other tools. To daily chores and leisure time from medical help and quick information transfer, life would be slow without it. Yet when the current generation just associate the idea of technology with anything that has to plug into an outlet or need batteries, the truth behind its history fades away. This whole subject began with the cavemen from 10 million years ago (1). Even with the early civilizations across the world had their special tributes to add to pot of helpful inventions. In Babylonia, the first calculator type item called an abacus was created in 2400 B.C. (2). It was created with tablets of stone with beans or stones act as the sliding devices. The odd quality about the abacus was the time of its existence, there wasn’t a counting system established! China flooded the world of technology, almost inventing one thing after the next. The craze started with the creation of the modern day version of paper in 100 A.D. using rags (3). Bullets and fireworks burst along in between the 8th and 10th century squeezing in making a working clock in 792 A.D. (2). Once at the turn of the 15th century, Europe, mainly Western Europe, dominated the future of technology with developments in various fields, such as math, science, industry, and home life. Starting with the printing press in 1450, invented by Johann Gutenberg (2). With the craving of information spreading as fast as possible. Then the great artist Leonardo Da Vinci. He secret written out prototypes for many current items such as the tank, machine gun, glider, helicopter, automobile, and the parachute (4). None of his notes were seen by anyone until his death, which sparked that people around thought he was crazy for having such outlandish ideas! Galileo was also an multiple-inventor bring the telescope, pendulum, and a basic thermometer (2). Engines make their debut with a steam engine made in 1712 by Thomas Newcomen (1). It wasn’t ready for working vehicles yet, only good for stationary objects. Christian Huygens considers the idea for a internal combustion engine but makes no effort to create any prototypes (1). With an incredible start to invention in the 18th century, the 19th and 20th centuries were no different yet living and breathing in the 21st century, technology run feral across the globe. With the 1970’s bringing the start of computers, cell phones, and video games with the great companies of Atari and Nintendo (even though it really started in 1889.), Apple and Microsoft (5). Now with the rapid advancement of these same tools, we don’t even have to think for ourselves most of the time. But even that does not end the new technology yet to come! All of the focus revolves around computers, nanotechnology, materials science, renewable energy, the entertainment industry, space travel, and medicine (6). Soon everything will be programmed for us, we’ll be able to live until a hundred and fifty, yet people fear it will just make us mindless puppets. With the uses of the entertainment industry projecting images of glamorous speed of flying vehicles and assistant robot companions, some mimicking the appearance and mind of humans. Yet they could rebel and destroy us all, leaving the future of Earth to what we have created. However the future reveals its twisted paths, the benefits will just encourage more advancements in technology.

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=Technology: The Essence of the Future=

Technology is all those crazy computers and iPad and them Blackberries that the young generation is using all the time! No, technology is just the digital stuff that helps us with simple tasks and communication. Wait, isn’t technology just dealing with computers and the internet and space machines? Well technology is all that and even more. By definition from my personal computer’s dictionary, technology is: the study, development, and application of devices, machines, and techniques for manufacturing and productive processes; a method or methodology that applies technical knowledge or tools; machines, equipment, and systems considered as a unit and; the sum of a society's or culture's practical knowledge, especially with reference to its material culture. Even so as this idea of technology is so versatile, it is also a controlling factor in what we do in life. RING RING! The alarm clock goes off. It may be in a shape of a clock, phone, or the trusty PDA. Next, walking outside, many vehicles whiz by on the paved streets, smoothed by other construction vehicles and tools. Driving in the cities, buildings tower above anything possible, all the metal parking meters standing around, signs cut out by lasers, radio towers and satellite dishes sending messages around the world, telephone lines with their ribbons of wires lined up like trees. Entering the work place or a place of education, libraries are brimming with computers, connected to the all-knowing World Wide Web. Many applications and programs are at a click of a finger with a mouse or a tablet pen helping create documents, artwork, presentations, and infinite forms of media. A buzz shake a pocket or a purse sitting on the ground. There is a caller from across the country waiting to hear your voice travel across the signals in real-time. When heading to a doctor’s office, checking on health takes a few minutes, using digital thermometers, x-ray and even brain scanning MRI’s. Heading home, a television waits to show its vast varieties of entertainment from cartoons to live sports. Throughout the home under its concrete skin, exist the wiring of electricity, pipes to bring fresh, drinkable water and clearing of the dirty used water to be refreshed. Vents carry cooling or warming air into the environment. Now just time to set the alarm clock again to make sure the next day is started at the right time. Even just the simple trip around town can show you all that technology is involved it. Even in the living spaces of society, technology brims near in every square foot that you walk in. With the simple fact of technology does not just apply to the new age devices but to the mechanics of plumbing and other tools. To daily chores and leisure time from medical help and quick information transfer, life would be slow without it.

__Technology: The Essence of The Future__
Technology creates one of the major tools and constitutes to the level of societies. With its importance, technology carries many characteristics such as helping with tasks that humans are not able to do on their own, using tools, devices, and machinery to help in successfulness and productivity, and applying the knowledge of using tools.

1) Technology helps with our everyday tasks such as transportation, communication, etc. 2) Uses in production for supplies and wants with factories. 3) Applying knowledge to tools by refining or creating new tools. 4) A measure of society, often referee to the level of civilization, successfulness, and intelligence.

Conclusion
(Which I suck at writing!) Technology is used throughout our everyday lives. You can not hide from any of the daily devices and machines such as vehicles, computers, and cell phones. Just simply removing all these tools would leave society lost and in the dark, having to go back to an medevil time.