The historian of technology should be ready to use all these sources, and to call upon the talents of the archaeologist, the engineer, the architect, and different specialists as acceptable. A extremely compressed account of the historical past of technology corresponding to this one should undertake a rigorous methodological pattern if it is to do justice to the topic with out grossly distorting it a technique or another. The plan followed within the present article is primarily chronological, tracing the development of technology by way of phases that succeed one another in time. Obviously, the division between phases is to a large extent arbitrary. In 2005, futurist Ray Kurzweil claimed the following technological revolution would rest upon advances in genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics, with robotics being the most impactful of the three applied sciences. Genetic engineering will allow far higher management over human organic nature via a process referred to …