Technology Words

The ethics of technology is an interdisciplinary subfield of ethics that analyzes technology’s ethical implications and explores ways to mitigate the potential negative impacts of new technologies. In physics, the discovery of nuclear fission in the Atomic Age led to both nuclear weapons and nuclear power. Analog computers have been invented and asserted dominance in processing complex data. Information technology, notably Technology news optical fiber and optical amplifiers, allowed for simple and quick long-distance communication, which ushered within the Information Age and the delivery of the Internet. The Space Age started with the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957, and later the launch of crewed missions to the moon in the Nineteen Sixties. Organized efforts to search for extraterrestrial intelligence have used radio telescopes to detect signs of technology use, or technosignatures, given off by alien civilizations.