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Technology
Technology (from Greek tekhnologia, "systematic treatment of art", also just "tech") encompasses tools and knowledge of making such tools invented and achieved mainly through science and by long systematic effort. This includes everything from stone tools to space rockets and artificial intelligence. On the Internet, as well as on this Wiki, this term is commonly used with an increased focus on computer technology, i.e. hardware and software, for this is the kind of technology that is being discussed and developed the most these days. Let it be said that technology, like fire, should serve us, but can also be dangerous and often gets misused and abused.
The foremost purpose of technology is to make people not have to work -- see also progress. Proponents of dystopian societies, such as capitalists, fear that technology will "take people's work" -- such people are for sure greatly idiotic and often end up abusing technology in the completely opposite manner: for enslaving and oppressing people. Proponents of good technology strive to make technology do work for humans so that people can actually live happy lives and do what they want. With this in mind we have to remember that one of the most important concepts in technology is minimalism, as that is a necessary prerequisite for technological freedom.
Knowledge of older technology gets lost extremely quickly in society -- this is a crucial realization that follows a naive idea of the young man who by his inexperience believes that we somehow pertain knowledge of all technology that's been invented from dawn of man until today. In history our society has always only held knowledge of technology it was CURRENTLY ACTIVELY USING; knowledge of decades old technology no longer in use only stays in hands and heads of extremely few individuals and perhaps in some obscure books that ARE UNREADABLE to most, sometimes to none; yet older technology oftentimes gets forgotten for good. For instance renaissance had to largely reinvent many arts and sciences of making building and statues of antiquity because middle ages have simply forgotten them. A more recent example can be found at NASA and their efforts to recreate THEIR OWN old rocket engines: you would think that since they literally have detailed documentation of those engines, they'd be able to simple make them again, but that's not the case because the small undocumented (yet crucial) know-how of the people who built the engines decades ago was lost with those individuals who died or retired in the meanwhile; NASA had to start a ginormous project to reinvent its own relatively recent technology. The same is happening in the field of programming: modern soydevs just CANNOT create as efficient software as hackers back then as due to normalization of wasting computing resources they threw away the knowledge of optimization technique and wisdom in favor of bullshit such as "soft skills" and memorizing one billion genders and personal pronouns. One might naively think that e.g. since our agriculture is highly efficient and advanced due to all the immense complexity of our current machines, simple farming without machines would be a child's play for us, however the opposite is true: we no longer know how to farm without machines. If a collapse comes, we are quite simply fucked.