The concept of technology

Summary

This short critical reflection article is the effect of reasoning done to create a concept about technology. The methodology used in the reflection has consisted of merging various concepts and testing a synthesis.

Etymological and logical bases to generate the concept of technology

a) The term technology etymologically comes from the Greek words:

logos = set of saberrestekne = art, technique, trade

b) The greater terminological emphasis leads to the analysis of the impact or result that the know-how of people has in the lives of other people. Therefore, according to the formal logical use of the language, a complex sentence emerging in this reasoning allows us to conclude as follows:

"People know how to make artifacts or processes in the environment, including plants and animals, to generate well-being and satisfy human needs."

Then this complex sentence can be organized into the following scheme:

SUBJECT: Who?	VERB: Action	OBJECT: What?	Where?
People	they know how to do	artifacts or processes	in the environment, including plants and animals,

	generate	wellness

	satisfy	human needs

Technology concept

"Technology is the result of knowledge that allows the production of artifacts or processes, modifies the environment, including plants and animals, to generate well-being and satisfy human needs." Author: César Eduardo Jiménez Calderón Ph.D.

Intangible and tangible results of technology

a) Technology comprises the key process of transforming or modifying the medium or reality.

b) Know-how comprises two cognitive-procedural processes:

Innovation, as a transforming process of some artifact or another known fractal process. The technical patent constitutes the concrete result. The invention, as a process that is carried out by transforming reality into an artifact or another new process, creation. The scientific patent is the concrete result.

c) The technology has two components:

epistemological, the result of knowledge that allows artifacts or processes to be produced; ontological, the modification of the environment, including plants and animals, to generate well-being and satisfy human needs.