What is Technology?

1. What is Technology?

2. What is Technology Definition: The use of accumulated knowledge to process resources to satisfy human needs and wants.

3. Technology The study of man made goods. Deals with what can be. Examples: Biotechnology Communication Technology Energy & Power Technology Production Technology Transportation Technology Science The study of natural things living or dead. Deals with what is or what was. Examples Biology Zoology Physic Chemistry Anthropology Technology vs Science

4. Needs are basic necessaries for human survival. 4 Basic: Wants are extras outside the basic human needs. Examples: Cars Nike Sneakers Bottled water Electronics Electricity Houses Fast foods • Water • Food • Cloths • Shelter Needs vs Wants

5. Resources • Definition: All things that are needed to produce goods, provide a service or solve a problem. • There are seven basic resources: • People - Manpower • Material – metal, wood, plastic, sand, clay, etc… • Capital – Money, land, bonds, precious metals and jewels • Information – Deeds, contracts, knowledge, research • Tools – computer, hammers, shovels, saws, trucks, • Time • Energy – solar, nuclear, hydro, wind, oil, gas, geothermal

6. Categories of Technology

7. Biotechnology & Agriculture Technology • Definition: • Technology that improves the health and the life expectance of mankind. • Examples: • medicine, cloning, more yield per acre, bug resistance plants • Positive Impacts • More food per acre, living longer, cloning, • Negative Impacts • Cloning, population, new diseases

8. Communication Technology • Definition: • Technology specially developed to aid our ability to communicate. • Examples: • Talking, print, radio, television, Internet, cell phones • Positive Impacts • Fast, Ease to use, Large amount of data shared • Negative Impacts • Not personal, Not reliable, Expensive, Viruses

9. Energy & Power Technology • Definition: • Technology used to create new forms of energy or improve existing forms of energy. • Examples: • Solar, Nuclear, Geothermal, Hydro, Oil, Wind, Natural Gas • Positive Impacts • Plentiful, renewable, clean, cheap • Negative Impacts • Expensive, dangerous, pollution, non-renewable

10. Manufacturing – TV, Cars, CD’s, Furniture, Electronics • Construction – Skyscrapers, Earth-wake proof buildings, bridges Production Technology • Definition: • Goods produced to increase our quality of life. • There are two (2) sub-categories: • Manufacturing- Mass production of goods • Construction – The creation of new shelters • Examples: • Positive Impacts • Makes life easier, many new gadgets, smart houses, energy savings. • Negative Impacts • Waste of natural resources, Urban Sprawl, Loss of Farmland

11. Transportation Technology • Definition: • Technology used to move people and goods form one place to another, faster and more efficiently. • There are five (5) sub-categories: • Water • Land • Air • Space • Goods • Positive Impacts • More a lot of people quickly, fast reliable, • Negative Impacts • Expensive, dangerous, pollution

12. Transportation Technology • 5 Categories of Transportation : • Water – Ex. Swimming, sailboat, submarine, canoe, rowboats, jet skis, hydroplanes, motorboat… • Land – Ex. Walking, cars, trains, bicycles, motorcycles, hovercrafts, skates, scooters, subways… • Air – Planes, gliding, helicopters, parachutes, hang gliders, jet packs • Space – Rockets, space shuttle, space station, jet pack, satellites • Goods – Pipes (water, gas, sewer), Wire (phone, cable) & Conveyors (escalators, elevator, conveyor belts)

13. History of Technology How humans and technology have evolved over the centuries.

14. Ages of Technology • Stone Age • Agricultural Age • Bronze Age • Iron Age • Industrial Age • Information Age

15. The Stone Age 1,000,000 BC to 8,000 BC • Humans used stones and sticks to create crude tools for: • Hunting • Creating shelters • Making cloths from animal skins

16. “So what’s this? I asked for a hammer! A hammer! This is an adjustable wrench!…Well, maybe it’s a hammer…Darn these stone tools!!” The Stone Age 1,000,000 BC to 8,000 BC • The earliest use of tools was the hammer and spear head.

17. The Agricultural Age 8,000 BC to 1750 AD • Humans became farmers, domesticating animals for food and work. • There were two separate periods in this age: • Bronze Age – (3,500 BC to 1500 BC)-Tools and weapons were made of soft bronze metal. • Iron Age – (1500 BC to 1750 BC) Tools and weapons were made of hard iron.

18. The Agricultural Age 8,000 BC to 1750 AD • Many new tools were created. One of the most important was the metal plow blade.

19. The Industrial Age 1750 AD to 1950 AD • Humans started to add power to their tools. Steam engine and pumps were the first use of powered machines.

20. The Industrial Age 1750 AD to 1950 AD • New tools such as the steam engines and the creation of iron allowed us to produce more goods.

21. The Industrial Age 1750 AD to 1950 AD • The invention of trains, the internal combustion engine, electricity, light bulb and the wireless radio took people off the farms and into the cities for work.

22. The Industrial Age 1750 AD to 1950 AD Positive Impacts • Opportunities for higher paying jobs. • Newer goods (cloths, household,…) • Stronger metals for bridges and buildings. • Interchangeable parts. • Mass production. • Increase in education.

23. The Industrial Age 1750 AD to 1950 AD • Negative Impacts • Pollution • Decrease in farm production • Poor living conditions • Monopolies • Child Labor • Poor working conditions • Decrease in wages • Deadlier weapons of war

24. The Information Age 1950 AD to Present • The transistor changed our lives The transistor allowed us to miniaturize thousand of wires into one tiny chip, allowing us to have: • Computers / Internet • Stereos / MP3 Players • Televisions • Cell Phones • Digital camera and video recorders • Microwaves

25. The Information Age 1950 AD to Present • The age when information is traded rapidly and is a valuable as gold. • Technological advances are coming so rapidly that many items are out of date before the consumer ever sees them. • Advances in electronics and medicine are allowing humans to live longer and work less.

26. Information Age Industrial Age Agricultural Age Stone Age The Growth of Technology 1,000,000 BC 8,000 BC 1750 AD 1950 AD 2004 AD Inventions