Technology,Technique and Culture

The word ‘Technology’ that comes from the Greek ‘tekhne’ initially was used in the 17th and 18th century referring the study of arts. The meaning of one word is highly depending the social context point of view, for example, ‘technocrat’ was oscillated between its negative and positive senses. The gradually transition of culture makes the ‘technology’ shift to its modern usage by which its meaning has been described to the system of mechanical and industrial arts since 1860 when the second industrial revolution was happening. Somewhat, people found out our body is the technology and how we use it by our techniques.

Technique is the definition of the use of skill to accomplish something. Continue to the concept of our body, the idea that whether we writing, eating, walking or sleeping which is the method to use our body. We are naturally good at this technique, but we have to learn the technique from practice of using men-made technologies in modern context. Technique refers to the way of effective and traditional manipulating the technologies.

Culture is dynamic because of including massive factors from the space. Culture, generally, contains every single human activity in the world. It is meant for culture is opened for every different class, for example, the working class considers culture directs to high-art culture like Ballet and Opera. However, they are unconsciously partial of the culture as a consequence of the changes. In the case of containing everything, subculture is another imperative aspect to move forward the culture. Punk, homosexual, rave, hacker or any other is not opposite of the mainstream culture; these kind of subcultures appears necessarily born from the main culture. They rely on each other for being alive.

 

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