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."
The meaning of this term changed in the early twentieth century, and American social scientists began with Thor-stein Veblen to turn the idea of the German Technique concept into "technology."