By
\nFamous S. Eseduwo, PhD
\nPolitical Science Department
\nFederal University, Otuoke, Bayelsa State \u2013 Nigeria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Technology is as old as human existence. It is a precursor to man\u2019s activities for survival through the ages. Technology emanated from the era of stones and fruit gathering\/hunting. Three significant stages are discernible in the history of technology. These include the stage of using simple tools (agrarian technology), the stage of mechanized tools (industrial technology), and the stage of automation tools (post-industrial technology). As the role of man changes in every era and stage of technology, so as the chances of a country\u2019s actualization of its vision of industrialization and attendant sustainable development changes based on such country\u2019s efforts at a particular period to develop its frontiers of intellectual property towards meeting the dynamics of technology. As Gendron (1977:32) simply put it that, the technology of an agrarian society is devoted mainly to the production of foodstuffs, while that of industrial societies is devoted mainly to the production of manufactured goods, and that of post-industrial societies is primarily devoted to the production of services as in the areas of education and health, predominantly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[22],"product_cat":[21],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-69","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_brand-digital-books","product_cat-book-store","first","instock","sale","downloadable","virtual","taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madeeasyconsult.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madeeasyconsult.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madeeasyconsult.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madeeasyconsult.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madeeasyconsult.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madeeasyconsult.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madeeasyconsult.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madeeasyconsult.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madeeasyconsult.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}