Innovations continued through the Middle Ages with the introduction of silk production , the horse collar, and horseshoes. Simple machines were combined into more complicated tools, such as the wheelbarrow, windmills, and clocks. A system of universities developed and spread scientific ideas and practices, including Oxford and Cambridge. Four Georgia communities receive support for projects that leverage applied research, technology, and data to ad…
- Examples include the rise of the notion of efficiency in terms of human productivity, a term originally applied only to machines, and the challenge of traditional norms.
- Europe is home to 43 percent of the world’s top 100 universities for life sciences, according to The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2021; the United States has 34 percent.
- Basic economic relations are changing as new technologies and markets emerge.
- Technology’s central role in our lives has drawn concerns and backlash.
- Moreover, these technologies have become so complex that entire fields have developed to support them, including engineering, medicine, and computer science; and other fields have become more complex, such as construction, transportation, and architecture.
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And, in Faust by Goethe, Faust’s selling his soul to the devil in return for power over the physical world, is also often interpreted as a metaphor for the adoption of industrial technology. According to archaeologists, the wheel was invented around 4000 B.C.E. The wheel was likely independently invented in Mesopotamia (in present-day Iraq) as well. There is also evidence from the same period of time that wheels were used for the production of pottery.