WHAT ARE THE BRANCHES OF TECHNOLOGY? - TECHNOLOGY - 2025

Technology is the set of skills, techniques, methods, and processes by which products are manufactured, services are provided, or objectives are met. It can refer to the deep knowledge of techniques that allow developing a certain activity or the incorporation of this knowledge in machines.

Technology began with the use of natural resources to create tools that would facilitate the lifestyle on Earth. The torch, for example, is an expression of technology because it allowed its early users to bring heat and light to places where they couldn't before, so they could make a profit.

Technology is simply everything that stimulates or favors the development and progression of the human race. Innovation is a key feature in technology because evolution takes place when new things are discovered.

The importance of technology then lies precisely in the evolution of the human race. Each parameter, each discipline and each subject involved in the role of technology represents a change towards progress and the future. Technology also influences the values ​​of a society.

Main branches of technology

Technology has many aspects, its main objectives favor the creation of general branches and its specific objectives stimulate the expansion of new categories and specialties that encompass technology as a whole.

According to the epistemologist Mario Bunge, the branches of technology are divided into groups: material, social, conceptual and general.

- Materials

It covers the areas of physical, chemical, biological and biochemical technology.

Physical

• Civil engineering: it is in charge of solving problems, inventing and maintaining structural works, infrastructure and architectures. Its main focus is on the creation of construction tools and methods for the facilitation and improvement of houses and buildings.
• Electrical engineering: in charge of problem solving, invention and maintenance of electrical works. Mainly, it is about stimulating technological growth regarding power plants and all the available resources that improve energy savings and consumption.
• Electronic engineering: it is responsible for ensuring the evolution of electronic resources that improve telecommunications, sending and receiving data and other similar aspects, in order to develop new technologies.

Chemistry

• Inorganic: it is the science that studies chemical elements that do not have carbon and hydrogen atoms. By means of organic chemistry, tools can be created based on graphite or diamond, such as the pencil or the scalpel; both very useful tools. In addition, it is possible to create glass, windows, televisions, screens, ceramics, household utensils, industrial utensils and even the fiber optic cable that today is used to establish the fastest Internet connections.
• Organic: studies those elements created by carbon bonds that can be useful in technological applications that promote the social sphere and evolution. For example, organic chemistry focuses on the creation of alcohols, which are indispensable disinfectants in the health sector.

Biological

• Pharmacology: it is the science that studies the interaction of drugs with human beings. In this way, it helps prevent and fight diseases within the nuclei of society.
• Bromatology: it is the science that studies food, its manufacture, distribution, consumption and conservation. Food science is responsible for qualitatively analyzing food and offering courses of action to improve nutrition, avoid poisoning, and determine quality control.

Biochemistry

• Agronomy: assesses the processes of growing and harvesting fruits and vegetables, improves processing and converts agricultural products into food.
• Medicine: it is the science of establishing a diagnosis, trying to cure someone who is sick and avoiding death, promoting integral health. Many technologies have been developed in this field, from the microscope to life-saving surgical methods.
• Bioengineering: it is the branch that seeks to design and create useful tools to combat human health problems.

- Social

It covers the areas of psychology, psychosociology, sociology, economics and the arts of war.

Psychology

• Psychiatry: is the science that studies mental disorders, how to prevent them, how to deal with them and offers rehabilitation to people with autonomy and adaptation problems.
• Pedagogy: it is the science that acts on learning, especially in children, to form adults with education and training, not academic, but of values ​​and moral principles that allow the development of humanity.

Psychosociology

• Industrial psychology: it is the science that stimulates the use and creation of tools to help the worker to be more efficient.
• Commercial psychology: it refers to the study of the market and the factors implicit in it. Helps develop skills as a buyer and seller.

Sociology

• Sociology: it is the science that studies the behavior of a society. Sociology is the analysis of cultural trends that promote the establishment of behaviors within a specific environment.
• Political science: it is a social science in charge of the study of politics and its interaction with society.

Economy

Administration Sciences: Administration Sciences promote business management, marketing, accounting, marketing and entrepreneurship, giving the human being a development at a financial level.

War arts

Military sciences: it is the science that teaches to avoid conflicts with diplomacy or to face an armed conflict with strategies that allow obtaining victory.

- Conceptual

Computing

Informatics is the automation of the processes of sending and receiving information. It is derived from the words information and automatic that refer to the set of information technologies through which a device can store information and share it without the intervention or with the intervention of a human being.

- General

Systems theory

Systems theory is a study methodology by which anomalies, sets and generalities are observed differently from traditional science.

The purpose of systems theory is to create tools that empower other divisions of scholarship in investigative processes.

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