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The process
of transmitting and receiving ideas, information, and messages.
The rapid transmission of information over long distances and ready
access to information have become conspicuous and important features
of human society, especially in the past 150 years.
With the advent
of today's interactive electronic media such as the Internet and
World Wide Web, technology has created a new medium of communication
which allows us to reach new or concurrent publics, disseminate
information quickly, and makes us re-examine traditional schools
of thought. Communication also shares a common link to both science
and art.
It is very apparent that communication is vital to sciences such
as business and engineering to transfer ideas efficiently. It is
also obvious that communication is important in art to capture and
transfer a message to an audience.
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| General term
for the processes by which human beings fashion tools and machines
to increase their control and understanding of the material environment.
The term is derived from the Greek words tekhne, which refers to an
art or craft, and logia, meaning an area of study; thus, technology
means, literally, the study, or science, of crafting.
Although it
is very obvious that there is crossover in the above definitions,
it is sometimes not as apparent how co-dependent these elements
are on one another.
Technology has long been thought of as the product or artifact used
as a tool for the ideas of science. Art, however, has also benefited
from the products of technology. The tools and materials that have
allowed artists to express themselves throughout history have all
derived as a product of technology. From the earliest example of
the development of paint to the advent of today's electronic media,
artists have and will continue to make use of technology. Technology
might then be considered the shared resource between the scientific
and artistic worlds.
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