Mit Technology Review
To help us, we might bear in mind the necessity that historians carefully distinguish between the concepts used by historical actors and the analytical concepts deployed by historians. Schatzberg has given us a detailed and fair account of the concepts akin to ‘technology’ as they have been used by historical actors in Europe and America over two millennia. Inevitably the label to cover these usages is broad and spans the spectrum of both instrumentalist and cultural approaches. But that does not mean that ‘technology’ as an analytical category needs to be the same. A well-chosen definition might not only help as a historian’s analytical category but also serve for sociologists and philosophers. These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'technology.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. A stone pottery wheel found in the city-state of Ur d...