technology

Technology is the set of technical, scientifically arranged, enabling design and create goods and services that facilitate adaptation to the environment and satisfying the essential needs as desires of humanity. It is a word of Greek origin, τεχνολογία formed by Techne (τέχνη, art, technique or craft, which can be translated as skill) and ology (λογία, the study of something). Although there are many very different technologies, it is common to use the term in the singular to refer to one or to all of them. When you write with a capital, technology can refer to both the theoretical discipline that studies the common knowledge to all technologies and technological education, school discipline doomed to familiarization with the most important technologies.
Technological activity affects the social and economic progress, but overwhelmingly commercial nature makes you more focused on the wishes of the most prosperous (consumerism) that the essential needs of the needy, which also tends to make no use sustainable environment. However, technology can also be used to protect the environment and prevent the growing needs cause a depletion or degradation of material and energy resources of the planet or increase social inequalities. As is intensive, direct or indirect, of the environment (biosphere), is the main cause of increasing depletion and degradation of natural resources of the planet.