Technology vs Information - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) The organization of knowledge for practical purposes.
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Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something.
The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification.
(legal) A statement of criminal activity brought before a judge or magistrate; in the UK, used to inform a magistrate of an offence and request a warrant; in the US, an accusation brought before a judge without a grand jury indictment.
(obsolete) The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation.
(Christianity) Divine inspiration.
(information theory) Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the .
A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber.
As contrasted with data, knowledge which is gathered as a result of processing data.
(computing) […] the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.
As nouns the difference between technology and information
is that technology is the organization of knowledge for practical purposes while information is things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something.technology
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(wikipedia technology)Chico Harlan
Japan pockets the subsidy …, passage=Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."}}
Usage notes
* Adjectives often applied to "technology": assistive, automotive, biological, chemical, domestic, educational, environmental, geospatial, industrial, instructional, medical, microbial, military, nuclear, visual, advanced, sophisticated, high, modern, outdated, obsolete, simple, complex, medieval, ancient, safe, secure, effective, efficient, mechanical, electrical, electronic, emerging, alternative, appropriate, clean, disruptive.Derived terms
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(en-noun)- I need some more information about this issue.
- For your information , I did this because I wanted to.
- And as you can see in this slide, we then take the raw data and convert it into information .
