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 Webster defines technology as the use of science in industry, engineering, etc., to invent useful things or to solve problems. Pursell spoke about the pros and cons of new technology through an example of self driving cars. Self driving cars would be a new piece of technology aimed to lower crash rates and slow automobile injuries and deaths. The flip side to introducing this new technology would see collision shops see exponentially less clientele, leading to the extinction of the business, and leaving more than thousands of people without a job. I found it pretty interesting to look at technology from a negative light from those who used to work on assembly lines, but have now been replaced by machines, or any industry that has continually updated their technology, making it difficult for people to continue their blue collar or outdated jobs. It seems to be the blue collar jobs that are being increasingly squeezed out of existence, in my opinion, and it would be interesting to see if others agree. --- //[[kmcgowan@umw.edu|McGowan Khayla J.]] 2017/01/18 15:27//
+Technology, at first, sounds like mechanical and electrical devices such as phones and computers. However, technology can be broadly defined as any tool, whether created or improvised from something that naturally occurs. Computers are obviously technology, but so are things like desks, chairs, and books. Even rocks and sticks that have been picked up off the ground can be technology, as they can be used to start a fire or build a shelter. Simple objects such as shirts, tissues, and windows are all technology, and have all evolved over the course of human history. Technology is anything that can be used as a tool, or used to develop technology further. -Nick Skibinski
 ==== What is culture? ====
 Culture refers to the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving. -- Daryl M.
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 The idea of culture is a broad term with multiple lenses which can be applied when studying a particular piece of technology. Pursell focuses is on the culture of the society that develops around technology, “with a sensitivity to cultural dimensions in the stories they tall.” Pursell, p. 5. (Laura Downs)
+Culture as I feel it described by Purell is an centralized ideology revolving around technology. The differences in culture between various culture groups is due to the different needs each group has. For example, native people who dwell in mountains have different cultural needs than say native people who live on plains land. This divivdes the cultures unless there is a technological tie that binds them in some way. -Thomas Lanier