The word technology, translated from the Greek, means art, skill, the ability to to do things, and it means action or process, that is, a set of actions aimed at achieving a set goal. The process is realized by means of different means and methods. Previously, the concept of technology referred only to the sphere Material production and denoted a set of means and methods of processing, manufacturing, changing the state, properties, and shape of raw materials or materials. Technology always A procedure which alters the quality or initial condition of the material in order to achieve a final material product.
Since, as already mentioned, the main type of human activity is becoming production of information, the term “information technology” came into being, by which are understood as a process using a combination of means and methods of collecting, transmitting, accumulating, processing, storing and transmission, accumulation, processing, storage, presentation and use of data (primary information) to obtain new quality information about the state of the object, phenomenon or process (information product).