Science, Technology, and

Society
What is Science?
● Comes from the Latin word scientia meaning ‘knowledge’.
● Inventions
● Behavior of the physical and natural world
SIGNIFICANT PEOPLE
What is Technology?
● Application of scientific knowledge
● The use of machines
● Techne meaning ‘art, skill or cunning of hand’
 The Medawar Lecture
(1998):Is Science Dangerous?
Society
Science, Technology, and Society (STS)
● Applies methods drawn from history, philosophy, and
sociology.
● Bridge the gap between humanities (interpretive) and
natural sciences (rational)
What are the challenges brought about by S&T?

● Rise of The Machines

● Medicine and Drugs
● Social Media
 Historical
Antedecents
Antecedent

- Defined as a precursor to the unfolding or

existence of something.
- Factors that paved the way for the presence
of advanced and sophisticated scientific and
technological innovations today.
ANCIENT PERIOD
Ancient Period

● The rise of ancient

civilizations paved the way for
advances in science and
technology.
ANCIENT WHEEL

- Carts and Transportation.

POTTER’S WHEEL

- Heavy flat disk made of

hardened clay which was spun
horizontally on an axis.
PAPER

- Around 3000 BC.

- Made from the Cyperus
Papyrus Plant
SHADOOF

- Also spelled as Shaduf

- Early tool invented during the
Eyptian Period.
ANTIKYTHERA MECHANISM

- Ancient world’s analog

computer orrery.
AEOLIPILE

- Aka Hero’s Engine

- “The Mighty and wonderful
laws of the heavens and the
nature of winds”
MIDDLE AGES
Middle Ages

● Between the collapse of the Roman Empire in

the 5th Century AD and the colonial
expansion of Western Europe in the late 15th
Century AD.
● Scientific and Technological Development.
HEAVY PLOUGH

- Harness clay soil.

GUNPOWDER

- Around 850 AD
- The supposed byproduct of
huoyao (Elixir of life/ Fire
Potion)
PAPER MONEY

- 17th Century AD
- Offshoot of Block Printing.
MECHANICALCLOCK

- Clockwork Technology
- Accurate depiction of time
SPINNING WHEEL

- Used for transforming fiber

into thread or yarn and
eventually woven into cloth
on a loom.
MODERN AGES
Modern Ages

● Significant development of scientific and

technological progress.
● Industrialization
● Age of Globalization and Discovery
COMPOUND MICROSCOPE

- Zacharias Janssen is credited

for the invention of the first
compound microscope in
1950.
- Magnifying Objects
MICROSCOPE

- Magnify Objects (20x)

- Invented by Galileo Galilei
JACQUARD LOOM

- Built by French weaver Joseph

Marie Jacquard
- To create complex textile
designs and made mass
production easier.
ENGINE-POWERED AIRPLANE

- Orville Wright and Wilbur

Wright are credited for
designing and successfully
operating the first engine-
powered aircraft.
TELEVISION

- The Scottish engineer John

Logie Baird is largely credited
for the invention of the
modern television.
INVENTIONS BY FILIPINO
SCIENTISTS
ELECTRONIC JEEPNEY

- Most recognizable national

symbols of the Philippines.
Banana Ketchup

- Invented by Maria Orosa,

Filipino Food technologist.
MEDICAL INCUBATOR

- World-renowned Filipino
pediatrician and national
scientist, Fe del Mundo
Dr. Fe Del Mundo
● First Woman Pediatrician to be admitted in Harvard University.
● Won the 1977 Ramon Magsaysay Award
● Founder of the First Pediatric Hospital in the country.
 Intellectual
Revolutions and
Society
Intellectual Revolution

● Refer to the series of events that led to the

emergence of modern science.
Copernican Revolution
● 16th Century
● Named after the Polish Mathematician and
astronomer, Nicolaus Copernicus.
Darwinian Revolution

● On the Origin of Species, 1859

● Natural selection
● 16th and 17th Century
● Development
Freudian Revolution

● Psychoanalysis
● Sigmund Freud
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Science and Technology and
Nation Building
REPUBLIC ACTS
FILIPINO SCIENTISTS
Filipinnovation
Significance in the present
 INTERMISSION
NUMBERRRRRRRR!
STS and the Human
Condition
Martin Heidegger

● German Philosopher
● NSDAP
● Opposes Positivism and Tech
ESSENCE OF TECHNOLOGY
Technology as Poiesis

● The Question Concerning Technology

● Distinction between Technology and Modern
Technology.
Enframing as Modern Technology’s Way of Revealing

● Enframing
● Calculative thinking
● Meditative thinking
Dangers of Technology
Human Flourishing in
Progress and De-
development
Overconsumption
1st world and Third World issues
The Good Life
ARE WE LIVING THE GOOD LIFE???
Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics

● Abbreviated as NE
● Dedicated to his son, Nichomacus
● Moral life and Human Happiness
Euidaimonia: The Ultimate Good

● Preference and interpretation

Arete and Human Happiness

● “Excellence of any kind”

● “Moral Virtue”
The epiphany of Life
What then is the good life?