Technology has been in the brink of advancement in different aspects. Technology can be considered as all the practical knowledge and skills that have been accumulated over the past by human in the attempt to make life and world a better place while also improving the environments in which human beings and other organisms live. Human beings have frequently attempted to enhance the life and their productivity based on the skills they have acquired over the years to make them more productive and enable them improve them skills that have been constructed over the years among different people.
The technological developments have been largely attributed to the progress and knowledge that have been solely developed by the different intellectuals who have accelerated the technological advancements to ensure tremendous technological advancements that have ensured better advancements in the ways and knowledge that is relevant to be shared across different humanity and in the history of the survival of human beings over the years. Still despite the already realized developments, the rate of advancements in technology is amazing still and the increase in the complexity of the discoveries made in technology remains worthy of notice.
It is also worthy to note that the influx of technological ideas has constantly infested different mediums thereby influencing different people in an individual or group basis. The values of increase in technological advancements and the adoption of these ideas in the individuals’ lives and work constantly influence and change their daily lives. For instance, just as the complexities in communication increases in different regions around the world, the rate at which great ideas are disseminated among and adopted among different people increases. These dissemination of ideas help provide interesting facts that rapidly stimulate the introduction and availability of new ideas among different individuals. These therefore help constantly improve the lives of the people who are affected by the innovations with the aim of doing better than they previously did or originally were in their lives.
It is therefore relevant to find out what exactly is the force behind these rare though great improvements that have been impacting the technological sector. One of the factors that stand out clearly is the rate at which the improvement of new idea from existing ideas often plays a major role. This means that people have the burning desire to continue the available technology to enable people learn new ideas and make them more complex to help improve the existing situation.
Another factor that influences technological expansion is the fact on population dispersion. When people move from one place to another, they learn more of the technological progresses that the carry along with them to another area where they impact the knowledge discovered. Just as it was in the early days, other people even though they tried to restrict their ability of people with knowledge of their language or technology, the movement of people still made it possible for these ideas to be disseminated and impacted in other parts of the world, contrary to their requirement. For instance, in the early years, the United States government tried to restrict the dissemination of the critical defense and weapon technology by introducing a restriction on the individuals with the vital knowledge to communicate or publish anything relating to the work they did or travel to certain area or parts of the world, with the aim of localizing their technology to only benefit themselves and their government, considering the sensitivity of the weapons involved. However, this would not be kept under the waters for long as the information was occasionally leaked thus the improvement of the technological enhancement in these areas.
The history of technology just as it is the discoveries of tools and the techniques used is similar to that of the humanity’s history. With the background knowledge, people have been able to create new things as well as many scientific achievements that have been made possible through the numerous technological achievements that have enabled different people to travel to other places that would otherwise been possible or seen come to pass in a natural way. Likewise, the technological discoveries made in communication have been able to influence different economic growth in various large parts of daily today life of individuals. These technological advancements have influenced the way in which the societal cultural traditions are performed in all aspects of the traditions of the society. Therefore in order to explore the various technological developments in other cultures, the paper will use the case of European and American technological advancement history.
The European technological advancement and history have been useful in the transformation of the nineteenth and twentieth century. The advancements have influenced the technicalities of the European communities, national states and businesses in addition to the social groups and other contesters who have been useful in the transformation of the construction of the high leveled technological advancements that the continent currently realizes. European world has improved the intellectual creation of practices and resources in the relation to the spaces inside and outside the continent. They have mobilized resources aimed at the study of the European history and other interdisciplinary works included as well. The discoveries have thus improved the scholarly research thereby improving the understanding of the continent’s past and present history in order to provide a broader knowledge to a broader audience.
Likewise, the Europe has been associated with the illustration of technology and transfer of opportunities that are useful in the aeronautics industry thereby enhancing the effectiveness of their automobile industry due to the technological advancements involved in the industry. For instance, German’s famous two car models started out as a result of the designing of the aircraft engines. BMW and Porsche engineers were involved in a series of discoveries and technological applications that later realized that their technological knowledge would not only work in the aircraft industry only but also the surface carriers.
It is in Europe that the technology used to take the first human being into space was developed. The technology developed airplane and since then, the knowledge and experiences used in the airline industry has improved in addition to the awareness created through the interaction with these technological ideas. This has therefore proved the benefit of technology that involves cross application of the knowledge required in different fields to enhance different performances in various sectors of the economy.
European world has made great steps in the technological advancements in the recent past as well to act as the pioneer to many other countries around the world. The majority of the countries in the continent have put aside adequate funding resources to encourage the space and other technological advancements. This is seen through various support offered for the airline industries and aeronautical companies to enhance technological applications and other developments that would result of a number of discoveries. The continent has also enhanced discoveries in the satellites for communications especially in Germany where 40 percent of the household now brags of receiving television programs through the satellite capabilities with 75 percent of the continent being communication satellite enabled. This therefore shows the European emphasis of technological advancement on the automobile and aeronautics industry.
Currently, Europe is partnering with the Galileo to champion the way as it improves its satellite navigation system. The project is estimated to help develop a multiple projects that will be useful in the facilitation of the daily lives of the citizens especially in the guidance of tourist to the destination attraction centers or just finding restaurants in the cities or using the satellite images to help navigate and respond to emergencies that may come their way. This coupled with the technological transfer and space information availed will help improve the chances of receiving different funding from various organizations and governments to improve the technological progress. Due to the established facts on the possible projects, they will work as evidences to enable member states of the European Union to agree and approve the budgeting issues on how much they can spend on the available programs geared towards improving technology.
European country like Russia has shown a tremendous improvement in the communication technological advancement. Russia for instance has developed its satellite reception to be the only country in the world with Satellite navigation system in addition to the United States. Thus, the European countries must enhance cooperation with Russia to help them improve the satellite navigation among other states. With the partnership with Galileo, Europe will definitely reduce the gap in technological advancement between Europe and United States.
The United States on the other hand has seen a lot of technological changes over the past years. In the world of navigation, the country has been able to introduce sophisticated equipment to enable navigation system by introducing the Global Positioning System that is useful in the planning and location of places and direction thereby enhancing the civilian mobility within the country. This is a technological discovery that has since then seen a lot of benefits to the citizens of the country thereby enhancing efficient movement from one place to another considering the complexities of the infrastructural design in the country.
In addition, the technological advancement in America is dated back to the industrial revolution that took place in the late eighteenth century that was able to set the Americans in the lane of embracing technological achievements. For instance, the engineering segment of the economy redefined the meaning of technological capabilities of the continent, especially in the United States. Likewise, the political freedom seemed to have encroached the country with an improved scientific knowledge that have helped in most cases improve the technological advancements and engineering capabilities of the country using sophisticated equipment.
The result of technological achievements were the reduced labor, improved leisure activities, improved health thereby bringing forth the abundance into the country’s borders. Technology was also fueled by the rising idea of democratic capitalism that enabled the country to move forward as a block thereby helping pull together where individuals were stuck or encountered obstacles of any nature. They always turned to technology to help amend their problems hence their technological advancements are evident in the entire souvenir that looked American in whatever part of the world where American products have been sold.
During the colonial process, the American technological improvement veered off due to the adequate supply of natural resources and graced by the fertile traditional crafts. During this evolutional era, the military needs and requirements had been built to a strong to ensure a strong and independent nation that has been able to sustain the various settlements in the larger North American continent and its landmasses that was commissioned by the endless growth after the nineteenth century. This development was inspired by the technological sprout that was realized in the 1900. This also enabled complex urbanization and industrial sprout that resulted into a logical outcome that has since them improved the lives of the average Americans due to the technological enthusiasm realized.
Therefore in conclusion, history and historical giants have proved that there are numerous literatures surrounding the development of technology in major parts of the world. These works shown include and not limited to the inventions on machines, engineering involving technological advances made by various scholars from these countries to ensure efficient and adequate running of the economic wellbeing of the country. Scholars are still involved in more discoveries in various fields as well with the aim of improving technological developments using the available resources to help proper mobilization of the available resources as well. The studies and researcher conducted comprehensively cover the social conditions of the countries and the world in addition to the motives of the discovery geared towards the values they individual countries stand for in the path to socio-economic and political reawakening. Therefore paying attention to the technological design has been an issue of growth as different members of the countries arise to the development of technology in major places of the European and American continents.
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