The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to technology:
Technology – collection of tools, including machinery, modifications, arrangements and procedures used by humans. Engineering is the discipline that seeks to study and design new technology. Technologies significantly affect human as well as other animal species' ability to control and adapt to their natural environments.
Components of technology
Man-made
Branches of technology
Aerospace – flight or transport above the surface of the Earth. Space exploration – the physical investigation of the space more than 100 km above the Earth by either crewed or uncrewed spacecraft. General aviation Aeronautics Astronautics Aerospace engineering Applied physics – physics which is intended for a particular technological or practical use. It is usually considered as a bridge or a connection between "pure" physics and engineering. Agriculture – cultivation of plants, animals, and other living organisms. Fishing – activity of trying to catch fish. Fish are normally caught in the wild. Techniques for catching fish include hand gathering, spearing, netting, angling and trapping. Fisheries – a fishery is an entity engaged in raising or harvesting fish which is determined by some authority to be a fishery. According to the FAO, a fishery is typically defined in terms of the "people involved, species or type of fish, area of water or seabed, method of fishing, class of boats, purpose of the activities or a combination of the foregoing features". Fishing industry – industry or activity concerned with taking, culturing, processing, preserving, storing, transporting, marketing or selling fish or fish products. It is defined by the FAO as including recreational, subsistence and commercial fishing, and the harvesting, processing, and marketing sectors. Forestry – art and science of tree resources, including plantations and natural stands. The main goal of forestry is to create and implement systems that allow forests to continue a sustainable provision of environmental supplies and services. Organic gardening and farming Sustainable agriculture Communication Books Telecommunication – the transfer of information at a distance, including signaling, telegraphy, telephony, telemetry, radio, television, and data communications. Radio – Aural or encoded telecommunications. Internet – the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP). Technology of television Television broadcasting – Visual and aural telecommunications. Computing – any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computers. Computing includes designing and building hardware and software systems; processing, structuring, and managing various kinds of information; doing scientific research on and with computers; making computer systems behave intelligently; creating and using communications and entertainment media; and more. Computer engineering – discipline that integrates several fields of electrical engineering and computer science required to develop computer systems, from designing individual microprocessors, personal computers, and supercomputers, to circuit design. Computers – general purpose devices that can be programmed to carry out a finite set of arithmetic or logical operations. Since a sequence of operations can be readily changed, computers can solve more than one kind of problem. Computer science – the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems. Artificial intelligence – intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. Natural language processing Object recognition – in computer vision, this is the task of finding a given object in an image or video sequence. Cryptography – the technology to secure communications in the presence of third parties. Human-computer interaction Information technology – the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications. Software engineering – the systematic approach to the development, operation, maintenance, and retirement of computer software. Programming – the process of designing, writing, testing, debugging, and maintaining the source code of computer programs. Software development – development of a software product, which entails computer programming (process of writing and maintaining the source code), but also encompasses a planned and structured process from the conception of the desired software to its final manifestation.