THINK!

WHAT IS TECHNOLOGY?
  Technology is the application of knowledge,
tools and skills to solve problems and extend
human capabilities.
 Human innovation in action.
 Generation of knowledge and processes to
develop systems that solve problems and extend
human capabilities
THE WORD TECHNOLOGY COMES FROM TWO GREEK
WORDS, TRANSLITERATED TECHNE AND LOGOS.

 Techne means art, skill, craft, or the way,

manner, or means by which a thing is
gained. 
 Logos means word, the utterance by which
inward thought is expressed, a saying, or an
expression.
 HOW HAS TECHNOLOGY CHANGED OUR
LIVES?

 How did the following items influence the lives

of the people that first used it?
WHAT IS HISTORY?
 A chronological record of significant events often
including an explanation of their causes
PALEOLITHIC AGE
 • 500,000 BC – 10,000 BC
 • Emergence of a complex set of behaviors and
tool use, believed by many archaeologists to be
connected to the development of modern language
 • Earliest known stone tools
 • Axes, knives, scrapers, cleavers
 • Bone needles

 • Impact of technology
 • Improved health
 • Enhanced security
 • Enabled humans to increase population
MESOLITHIC AGE
 • 10,000 BC – 4000 BC
 • Development of composite tools
 • Leatherwork, basketry, fishing tackle
 • Domestication of animals

 • Impacts of Technology
 • Farming, domestication of animals, beginning of
settled communities
NEOLITHIC AGE
 • 4000 BC – 2300 BC
 • Development of agriculture, year round
settlements
 • Pottery, polished stone tools, spinning and
weaving tools, wooden and stone plows, sickles

 • Impacts of Technology –
 • Dependable year round food, division of labor that
spurs invention and innovation
BRONZE AGE
 • 2300 BC – 700 BC
 • Earliest civilizations - the development of
metallurgy, mainly the combining of copper and
tin to make bronze
 • Bronze jewelry, tools, and weapons

 • Impact of Technology
 • Stone tools were gradually replaced by metal ones.
Enabled humans to alter their environment at a greater
rate
IRON AGE
 • 700 BC – 450 AD
 • The use of iron as the main metal.
 • Iron dagger, iron chisels, small figurines,
ornamental jewelry, swords, axes, spearheads

 • Impact of technology
 • Military dominance for uses of iron weapons and the
use of iron bladed plows enabled humans to cultivate
heavier soils and increase food production
MIDDLE AGES
 • 450 –1400 AD
 • The period of European history between fall of
Rome and the Renaissance

 • Wheeled plow, improved harness for horses,

horseshoes, stirrups, waterwheels, crank,
windmill, cast iron, cannons, mechanical clock,
compass, ocean-going ships.
 • Impact of technology

 • The rise and decline of serfdom and feudalism,

the rise of the money economy and capitalism,
the expansion and contraction of economic
activity, and the beginnings of urbanization and
industrialization.
RENAISSANCE
 • 1400-1750 AD

 • The transitional movement in Europe between

the middle ages and modern times, marked by a
humanistic revival of classical influence
 • Telescope, microscope, thermometer, clocks,
barometer
 • Impact of technology

 • Instrumentation enabled early scientists to

observe and quantify natural phenomena.
INDUSTRIAL AGE
 • 1750-1950 AD
 • The cultural stage characterized by the first use
of complex machinery, factories, urbanization,
and other economic and general social changes
from strictly agricultural societies
 • Steam engine, electricity, automobile, airplane,
radio, television, telephone, and rocket
 • Impact of technology
 • The Industrial Revolution gave rise to urban
centers requiring vast municipal services, created
a specialized and interdependent economic life,
and provided the economic base for the rise of
the professions, population expansion, and
improvement in living standards
INFORMATION AGE
 • 1950 AD–Present
 • Starting in the 1950s and continuing today in
which the gathering, manipulation, classification,
storage, and retrieval of information is central to
the workings of society
 • Transistor, integrated circuit, computer,
communication satellite, digital photography,
artificial heart, nuclear power plant, space shuttle
 • Impact of technology

 • As information becomes more widely available,

increasing numbers of individuals and
organizations will be in a better position to make
decisions that “experts” now make,
decentralizing decision making and empowering
more people
 THE NATURE OF WORK

Examine the following graph. How has the nature

of work changed over time?
 TECHNOLOGY IS NOTHING. WHAT'S IMPORTANT IS THAT YOU
HAVE A FAITH IN PEOPLE, THAT THEY'RE BASICALLY GOOD AND
SMART, AND IF YOU GIVE THEM TOOLS, THEY'LL DO
WONDERFUL THINGS WITH THEM.

STEVE JOBS

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