{"646686":{"#nid":"646686","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"\u2018Technology\u2019 Is the Most Useless Word in the English Language","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEric Schatzberg, professor and chair in the School of History and Sociology, was mentioned in the article \u0026quot;\u0026lsquo;Technology\u0026rsquo; Is the Most Useless Word in the English Language,\u0026quot; published April 9, 2021 in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EBloomberg\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe article, which discusses the meaning \u0026ndash; or lack thereof \u0026ndash; in the use of the word \u0026quot;technology\u0026quot; in commercial applications today. Schatzberg\u0026#39;s contributions to studying the term and its history are used as supporting material.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe meaning wasn\u0026rsquo;t always so expansive. Until the 1930s, in line with its ancient Greek etymology, it applied primarily to the study of the technical arts, according to the historian Eric Schatzberg. Hence the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was founded in 1861 to study and teach applied science and engineering rather than to study and teach \u0026ldquo;technology.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-04-09\/-technology-is-a-useless-word-as-many-tech-companies-differ\u0022\u003EFull article.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35266","created_gmt":"2021-04-20 18:52:32","changed_gmt":"2021-04-20 18:52:32","author":"ifrazer3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"biodiversity meltdown","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-04-09\/-technology-is-a-useless-word-as-many-tech-companies-differ","dateline":{"date":"2021-04-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-04-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"594788":{"id":"594788","type":"image","title":"Eric Schatzberg","body":null,"created":"1503421542","gmt_created":"2017-08-22 17:05:42","changed":"1503421542","gmt_changed":"2017-08-22 17:05:42","alt":"Eric Schatzberg","file":{"fid":"226682","name":"Schatzberg cropped.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Schatzberg%20cropped.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Schatzberg%20cropped.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":904766,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Schatzberg%20cropped.jpg?itok=KtlIMNzE"}}},"media_ids":["594788"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1288","name":"School of History and Sociology"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1616","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"168508","name":"School of History and Sociology"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}