Soft technology
Origin: Lat. suavis Gr, sýstēma μέθοδος méthodos 'método'
Soft technology takes human psychology, thinking, cognition, and behavior as its vehicle, and its knowledge system is derived mainly from non-natural (humanities and social) sciences and from non (traditional)-scientific knowledge. Can be classified according to the source of knowledge, operational areas, operational resources, and so on includes: Economic technology, Social technology, Political technology, Cultural technology, Soft life technology, Soft-engineering technology, Intellectual technology, Environmental and ecological soft technology, Institutional design technology, etc.
Spanish: Tecnología suave
Sources and references
- Zhouying JIN, Global Technological Change--From Hard Technology to Soft Technology (UK and USA, 2005 and 2011; China 2010, Korea 2019)view
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