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The 1 Billion Lives Challenge, achieved by the Edison Alliance in 2024, one year ahead of schedule, exemplifies what can be achieved when diverse stakeholders work toward a common goal.
If pollsters were to study what we actually do in our lives, day in and day out, they’d surely conclude that we not only trust and rely upon science, we embrace it. Actions speak louder than words.
The importance of stone tools, circa 2.5 million years ago, is considered fundamental in the human development in the hunting hypothesis. [citation needed]Primatologist, Richard Wrangham, theorizes that the control of fire by early humans and the associated development of cooking was the spark that radically changed human evolution. [2]
Technology's central role in our lives has drawn concerns and backlash. The backlash against technology is not a uniform movement and encompasses many heterogeneous ideologies. [117] The earliest known revolt against technology was Luddism, a pushback against early automation in textile production.
Since technology uses resources, technical history is tightly connected to economic history. From those resources, technology produces other resources, including technological artifacts used in everyday life. Technological change affects, and is affected by, a society's cultural traditions. It is a force for economic growth and a means to ...
Gathering talent and technology Faced with aggressive antitrust actions, Big Tech firms have also adopted creative mechanisms towards industry consolidation. Last year, joint ventures and ...
[6] [page needed] Other Chinese inventions included the horse collar, cast iron, an improved plow and the seed drill. Mining and metal refining technologies played a key role in technological progress. Much of our understanding of fundamental chemistry evolved from ore smelting and refining, with De re metallica being the leading chemistry text ...
An axe made of iron, dating from the Swedish Iron Age, found at Gotland, Sweden: Iron—as a new material—initiated a dramatic revolution in technology, economy, society, warfare and politics. A technological revolution is a period in which one or more technologies is replaced by another new technology in a short amount of time.