Technology
- Service (systems architecture), the provision of a discrete function within a systems environment:
- Service-oriented architecture (SOA)
- Service layer
- Local implementations in software:
- Daemon (computer software), a background computer program in Unix
- Windows service, a background computer process belonging to no user in a Microsoft Windows system
- A program in the Services menu under Mac OS X that processes selected data
- Network service
- Telecommunications service, including:
- Web service, a software system to support interaction over a network
- Internet Relay Chat services (IRC), a set of features implemented in most modern Internet Relay Chat networks
- Value-added service or content service provided by communication service provider (CSP), including:
- Services of an Intelligent Network (IN), for telecommunications
- GSM services
- Web hosting service
- Software as a service (SaaS)
- Services of an Intelligent Network (IN), for telecommunications
- Service mode, a hidden mode on an electronic device that can be entered by a code, giving access to service features or maintenance
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Famous quotes containing the word technology:
“Radio put technology into storytelling and made it sick. TV killed it. Then you were locked into somebody else’s sighting of that story. You no longer had the benefit of making that picture for yourself, using your imagination. Storytelling brings back that humanness that we have lost with TV. You talk to children and they don’t hear you. They are television addicts. Mamas bring them home from the hospital and drag them up in front of the set and the great stare-out begins.”
—Jackie Torrence (b. 1944)
“If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.”
—Freeman Dyson (b. 1923)
“Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power ... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.”
—Octavio Paz (b. 1914)