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Introduction to this site

This site is about the fundamental principles of technology. Technology is now so advanced that students must start learning somewhere beyond and above the fundamental principles. Many people working in advanced technical work lack the knowledge of the basic underlying theories.

With frantic competition in technical advancement mankind runs the risk of losing touch with the essential foundations of technology, and like a building with weak foundations there is a danger that the whole system of knowledge could collapse.

We can now store vast amounts of data in a form which will virtually last forever, and many libraries and archives take great care of that knowledge, but all that knowledge is of use to only one being, that is MAN, and intelligent and sophisticated men at that. We have to doubt whether man, or civilization anyway, will survive as long as the data.

James Lovelock believes that mankind as a species will survive the imminent dramatic changes to our climate, but that civilization will not. The human animal is biologically exactly the same as the man of 100,000 years ago. We evolve only slowly. It is our civilization, not the species which has made great progress, especially in the last 100 years. Professor Lovelock advocates that mankind should collect the fundamental principles of our technology into the form of robust books which would survive if our the technology itself does not.

Contents:

• The principles of technology
• Computer technology
• Sound technology

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The Principles of Technology

• History of technology.
• Scientific units.
• Product design

Computer Technology

• The history of computers.
• Linux.
• Home computers.
• File types.
• Some selected computer software products available on the Internet.

Sound Technology

• File formats used for sound and music.
• Software for sound and music.
• The history of sound recording.

This site is written by S. J. Farthing, Portsmouth, England. All text and original graphics are copyright (c) S. J. Farthing, 2001-2008. All rights reserved.

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