technographyn.
/tɛkˈnɒɡrəfi/, U.S. /tɛkˈnɑɡrəfi/ 1. The observation, description, and study of technologies and their application, esp. within a particular social or historical context; an instance of this.
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society > occupation and work > study of work > [noun] > technology or technography
technicology1828
technics1839
technography1840
technology1881
1840 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. London 3 5 The Statistics of Production, it divides into those,—Of ‘technography,’ or the arts of material production as privately pursued... Of industrial co-operation and exchanges... Of public works.
1882 Amer. Naturalist 16 829 Observing and descriptive stage... Technography. Inductive and classifying stage... Technology. Deductive and predictive stage... Technonomy.
1892 Science June 332/2 The atlatl is assuming an enviable importance in comparative technography.
1958 Classical Jrnl. 53 372/2 Aristotle's work [on rhetoric] acquires in its detailed analysis many of the aspects of a technography.
1995 R. K. Vashistha Art & Artists of Rajasthan vii. 99 The necessity of studying the technography of Rajasthani miniature painting in general, and its early sources in particular, has long been felt to ascertain how a variety of colours and pigments were prepared.
2. The use of information technology to focus and facilitate the running of a meeting, by having a person take notes which are immediately displayed for discussion by the participants. Cf. technographer n. 2.A proprietary name in the United States.
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1986 Business Software Rev. Dec. 10/3 The technology is dubbed ‘technography’, and its purpose is to promote more effective collaboration in that age-old forum commonly known as the business meeting.
2000 OfficePro Apr. 10 She used technography recently to hold a brainstorming session between her chapter's board members and herself.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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