NATS 1775 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Technological Determinism, Billiard Ball, Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill

• School: York University
• Department: Natural Science
• Course: NATS 1775
• Professor: Vera Pavri

Document Summary

Nats 1775 unit 1: questions concerning technology: defining technology. Technology: the constant change and update of information that is used to make the world a more communicable place. Term technology can be found as early as the 17th century, and was used to describe study of industrial arts. Term technology only popularized after wwii but use of technology (or material) items can be traced to almost 2 million years ago (cid:894)(cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1009)(cid:1004)"s(cid:895) Prior to this, alternative terms to technology used were (cid:862)pra(cid:272)ti(cid:272)al arts,(cid:863) (cid:862)applied s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:862)e(cid:374)gi(cid:374)eeri(cid:374)g(cid:863) world-wide term tech: to fabricate, to make, the process or skill in technological development. 1831 ja(cid:272)o(cid:271) bigelo(cid:449) (cid:449)rote (cid:271)ook e(cid:374)titled (cid:862)ele(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts of te(cid:272)h(cid:374)olog(cid:455) o(cid:374) the appli(cid:272)atio(cid:374) of science to the useful arts(cid:863) He equated technology with invention and creativity; science as process of discovery. Breaking down term: teks is indo-european root word meaning to fabricate or weave; in.