Technological Change

Technological change (TC) is a term that is used to describe the overall process of invention, innovation and diffusion of technology or processes. The term is synonymous with technological development, technological achievement, and technological progress. In essence TC is the invention of a technology (or a process), the continuous process of improving a technology (in which it often becomes cheaper) and its diffusion throughout industry or society. In short, technological change is based on both better and more technology.

History of technology
By technological eras
  • Neolithic Revolution
  • Renaissance technology
  • British Agricultural Revolution
  • Industrial Revolution
  • Second Industrial Revolution
  • Atomic Age
  • Jet Age
  • Space Age
  • Information Age
  • Digital Revolution
  • Social Age
By historical regions
  • Ancient Egypt
  • Ancient India
  • Ancient China
  • Ancient Greece
  • Ancient Rome
  • Byzantine Empire
  • Medieval Europe
  • Medieval Islamic world
By type of technology
  • History of biotechnology
  • History of communication
  • History of computer hardware
  • History of electrical engineering
  • History of materials science
  • History of measurement
  • History of medicine
  • History of nuclear technology
  • History of transport
Technology timelines
  • Timeline of historic inventions
  • Complete list
Outlines
  • Outline of technology
  • Outline of prehistoric technology

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Famous quotes related to technological change:

    “Technological change defines the horizon of our material world as it shapes the limiting conditions of what is possible and what is barely imaginable. It erodes ... assumptions about the nature of our reality, the ‘pattern’ in which we dwell, and lays open new choices.”
    —Shoshana Zuboff (b. 1951)