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Yet even for a current English word ‘technology ’ has come to embrace usually conflicting meanings. First, I will offer a abstract of Eric Schatzberg’s essential new opus Technology, which untangles and clarifies the history of ‘technology’ and its cognates as actors’ categories. So ‘technology’ entered the 20 th century because the science of the industrial arts, a time period of art for the German cameralists and a brand-like placeholder time period in the United States. Yet finally the German idea of Technik would have much larger affect. After 1850 German engineers embraced the term Technik in a broad sense, not restricted to a means-to-ends rationality however a coherent and culturally important class overlaying the arts of fabric production. Imagine a solar-powered lantern that you simply may take camping with an umbilical twine to an influence source with connections to myriad types of telephones. The inability to communicate throughout crisis situations is debilitating, and