1. Technology Defined
Technology is humans using objects (tools, machines, systems, and materials) to change the natural and human built environment.
People + ideas + Knowledge + capital + energy + tools and machines + materials + time = solution to a problem

2. Four Features of Technology
Human Knowledge
Tools, materials, and systems
Results in artifacts and residuals
Modifies or controls environment

3. Roots and Genesis Developed from business (for profit)
Government is involved (money faucet)
Capitalism is the fuel for the engine
Technology is the prime mover
Free enterprise or what passes for it drives new tech
Government protects and nurtures tech with policy
Quest for money drives the creation
Tech sets us apart from the rest of the world

4. Progress Means Change Change can be uncomfortable Change is inevitable
Technology is change
There is no turning back
People resist change as a natural course
Past technological changes made progress in productivity and life styles
All change is not necessarily good but it is change
If your are not moving forward your are moving backward

5. IS Technology Neutral? Increases human capabilities
Life is more enjoyable
Causes unemployment
Technology is feared

6. Technology Types Not applied science
Science is Knowledge of natural world
Knowledge turned in to artifacts = Tech.
Technology is the result of Development
Science is discovering the truth as we know it
Truth is a result of research
Truth is knowledge that can be developed and applied to solve a problem

7. Knowledge Three types of knowledge Natural world (Science)
Human made world (Technology)
Human interactions with the world (Humanities)
All three types interact with each other

8. Evolution of Technology
Stone age
Bronze age
Iron age
Middle age
Renaissance
Industrial Revolution
2 .5 million years ago cave men and stone axes
About 3000 B.C. Copper and its alloys Zinc makes brass tin makes bronze
1200 B.C. Iron for tools and weapons more plentiful and cheaper
400 A.D. Germanic tribes conquered Roman Empire
Gutenberg and printing press, magnetic compass, waterwheel, paper money
England 1750’s James Watt improved steam engine, started the move to cities from agrarian society
Competition for customers

9. Information Age? What is next? What is needed What is desired?
It is all change
Steve Jobs Ipod cell phone
Fiber optic cable
Wireless digital data- military uses
Information management
Dynamic process—construction methods and materials—machining parts—medicine—energy production—ag—transportation

10. Where Will it End?
Not in your lifetime!