flexible technology definition

1 Conceptually, the flexibility of technology refers to the extent or ease with which machines, know-how, and raw materials can be used in other products or services. It also applies to technologies that have evolved or adapted rapidly over time.

In other words, a flexible technology is one that can be used in different fields or application areas. For example, a chip can be used in credit cards, passports, televisions, computers, and even in people and animals.

Another example of flexible technology is the Internet, it allows it to be applied in multiple fields and easily adapt to them, in addition to quickly finding new uses.

Flexible technologies do not necessarily have to be technological objects, they can also be technological processes and even technological theory. As long as they are easy to adapt and apply in multiple areas.

For example, computer simulation technology is another flexible technology, which can be applied from simple entertainment (such as 3D movies), to scientific research (simulation of climate, chemical, physical and biological processes), etc.

Flexible technologies have certain advantages such as an improvement in the productivity of a company by using machines, techniques, processes and products or technological objects that have already been tested and are easy to adapt.

Industries that make a lot of use of flexible technologies or that are themselves rapidly adapting technologies are the drug industry, the food industry, the automotive industry, the computer industry, the entertainment industry, etc.

Flexible technology contrasts with fixed technologies. The latter are technologies that can hardly be applied with a different utility for which they were created. It also includes technologies whose advances are not strong over time.

For more information see: fixed technologies

2 Physically, flexible technology refers to any technology that allows it to be bent or bent generally manually.

For example, flexible screens, currently under development, which would allow small devices, such as cell phones, to be able to bend. Wristbands with flexible screens are also being developed.

In general, any technology that can be worn on the body (called wearable technologies, for example wearable computers) and adapt to the body’s forms can be called flexible technology.