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Chapter & - A historicall overview - Technology is seen as a key mechanism of social change , moving society forward into new socid , cultural , political and economic milieus . THE STONE AGE 12 . 6 million years ago) - The earliest evidence of technology is traced back to the use of tools during the stone age - about 2 . 6 million years a go ! ⊥ Entails use of primitive tools ⊥ Beginning of hunter-gatherer societies during this perical stone tools started to emerge as the first key technological development ⊥ More advanced stone tools started to emerge · Neolithic period Neolithic revolution aks the agricultural revolution hunter-gatherer societies to horticultural and pastoral societies Ancient technology : the development off the scientific method 1500 BLE - 190 BLE) ⊥ Rapid changes in understanding, about materials such as smelting of iron ⊥ The invention of key tools including the screw and the lever ⊥ Rapid advancements in knowledge and theories including the study of perspective effects 1 The emergence of basic research , as the recognition of the relevance of scientific inquiry The renaissance : the awakening of the mind throw gh technolog throug ⊥ The invention of the printing press (14th - 17th century) ⊥ The commodization of information through mass production and dissemination ⊥ A move from oral culture to print mitute leading to the more rapid spread of ideas Enlightenment and Arench revolution : YCem it knowledge in action (1715 -1789) ⊥ The publication of the Encyclopedie , the first universal and secular dictionary of human knowledge ⊥ knowledge is created / the aim of informing the public ⊥ Greater relevance given to practical skills as equal in importance to the more traditional , academic disciplines ⊥ Technology transfer increases both within and across trades ⊥ Development of more advanced military technologies