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technologyApplication of knowledge to the practical aims of human life or to changing and manipulating the human environment. Technology includes the use of materials, tools, techniques, and sources of power to make life easier or more pleasant and work more productive. Whereas science is concerned with how and why things happen, technology focuses on making things happen. Technology began to influence human endeavour as soon as people began using tools. It accelerated with the Industrial Revolution and the substitution of machines for animal and human labour. Accelerated technological development has also had costs, in terms of air and water pollution and other undesirable environmental effects. Applying a systematic technique, method or approach to solve a problem. Much of today's technology implies the use of computers. See high tech.
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| Referred by health care professionals, technologists make regular visits to homes to install, train users and maintain a wide range of equipment, www. This special credential, unlike other certifications that recognize only a narrow scope of skills, is the mark of excellence for CPA business technologists who are leaders in industry, public practice, government and academia. A growing number of insurance technologists are rising through the ranks, and a key to that success lies bi the partnerships they're building with business. |
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