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| Demographics | Charateristics of population groups such as age, income, education |
| Innovation | Creations that improve ideas, products, or methods of doing things. |
| Invention | A discovery, finding or a product of imagination that never existed before, new |
| Serendipity | Discovering an innovation or invention by chance, making fortunate discoveries by accident |
| Specialization of Function | Technologists seek to specialize or individualize the function of products to improve their total performance. |
| Synergy | Working together, combined action or operation, a functional interrelationship |
| Technology and history | Technology has allowed us to take control over our natural world, technology has made work easier. |
| Technological Literacy | The ability to use, manage, assess, and understand technology. |
| Trends | Patterns of technological activities that show a tendency or take a general direction. |
| Trial and Error | A process of attempting to find a solution to a problem by trying one solution after another until a suitable outcome or product is achieved. |
| The two types of Technological Impacts | Positive (Desireable) and Negative (Undesirable) |
