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Technology has both positive and negative affects (advantages and disadvantages (potential benefits and harms)) on society and environment including the possible improvement or declination of society and environment. This characteristic is sometimes called the dual nature of technology, a concept that applies not just to individual consumer durables such as a refrigerator or car, but to all levels from individual artifacts to industries and to the level of the global economy. Technology has both positive and negative affects (advantages and disadvantages (potential benefits and harms)) on society and environment including the possible improvement or declination of society and environment. This characteristic is sometimes called the dual nature of technology, a concept that applies not just to individual consumer durables such as a refrigerator or car, but to all levels from individual artifacts to industries and to the level of the global economy.

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