Since technology can be so easy or so advanced, there are heaps of types of technology. One kind is mechanical technology, which includes wheels, cams, levers, gears, belts, and engines. Things that turn, or enable movement in one path to cause a different type of movement, are mechanical.

Some critics see these ideologies as examples of scientism and techno-utopianism and fear the notion of human enhancement and technological singularity which they support. Optimistic assumptions are made by proponents of ideologies similar to transhumanism and singularitarianism, which view technological improvement as generally having helpful effects for the society and the human condition. In physics, the discovery of nuclear fission has led to each nuclear weapons and nuclear power. Computers were invented and later miniaturized utilizing transistors and integrated circuits. Information technology, particularly the optical fiber and optical amplifiers that led to the delivery of the Internet, which ushered in the Information …