Technology is often perceived as exclusively focused on digital, hightech industries, or even nano-sciences. However, technology has existed since the earliest traces of human life and has continually manifested itself in its most primitive forms.
There was no mention of the term 'technology' before 1952 during the annual speech of the presidents in the United States, a tradition maintained since the 1790s. The term technology then referred to the applied arts, but its definition is evolving and increasingly encompasses the advances and changes that affect the environment around us.
Technology and its changes affect society, culture, and traditions, but above all, a nation’s economic, political, and military trajectories. This is why it is interesting to see that inventions created millions of years ago have a domino effect on technological advances today.
Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil wrote in his 2005 book "The Singularity Is Near":
“The continual acceleration of technology is the implication and inevitable result of what is known as the Law of Accelerated Returns, which describes the accelerating pace and exponential growth of the products of an evolutionary process.”
We would therefore be, according to scientists, in an era where technology and invention would be at the
