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Information and communications technology ( ICT) is an extensional term for information technology (IT) that stresses the role of unified communications [1] and the integration of telecommunications ( telephone lines and wireless signals) and computers, as well as necessary enterprise software, middleware, storage and audiovisual, that enable ...
Technology is the application of conceptual knowledge for achieving practical goals, especially in a reproducible way. [1] The word technology can also mean the products resulting from such efforts, [2] [3] including both tangible tools such as utensils or machines, and intangible ones such as software.
Appropriate technology is a movement (and its manifestations) encompassing technological choice and application that is small-scale, affordable by locals, decentralized, labor-intensive, energy-efficient, environmentally sustainable, and locally autonomous. [1] [2] It was originally articulated as intermediate technology by the economist Ernst ...
The main library is the Tokyo Institute of Technology Library in Ookayama. It is the home of Japan's largest science and technology library. The library was founded in 1882, [15] and it lost nearly 28,000 books during the Great KantÅ earthquake in 1923. Moved to Ookayama in 1936, it has been the national science and technology library of Japan.
Visitors. 14,893 (2020) [1] Owner. Government of Brunei. Website. www.museums.gov.bn. The Malay Technology Museum ( Malay: Muzium Teknologi Melayu) is a museum in Kota Batu, a historical area in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei. It was opened in 1988 and contains exhibits on the traditional technologies used by the indigenous people of Brunei. [2]
Technological evolution is a theory of radical transformation of society through technological development. This theory originated with Czech philosopher Radovan Richta. [5] Mankind In Transition; A View of the Distant Past, the Present and the Far Future, Masefield Books, 1993. [6] Technology (which Richta defines as "a material entity created ...
Non-profit technology. Nonprofit technology is the deliberative use of technology by nonprofit organizations to maximize potential in numerous areas, primarily in supporting the organization mission and meeting reporting requirements to funders and regulators. Types of technology do not differ between nonprofit and for profit organizations.
The Burj Khalifa (known as the Burj Dubai prior to its inauguration) is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.It is the world's tallest structure.With a total height of 829.8 m (2,722 ft, or just over half a mile) and a roof height (excluding antenna, but including a 242.6 m spire) of 828 m (2,717 ft), the Burj Khalifa has been the tallest structure and building in the world since its ...