Artos istilah punika mauwah ring pangawitin abad ka-20 rikala sujana sosial Amerika, kakawitin antuk Thorstein Veblen, nerjemahang unteng-unteng pikayunan saking konsep Jerman Technik ring tengahing "teknologi."
Terms the value has changed in the early 20th century when American social scientists, beginning with Thorstein Veblen, translated ideas from the German concept of technique into "technology."