NATS 1775 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Technological Determinism, Natural Philosophy, Forensic Engineering
4 Oct 2018
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What to consider in this unit: discussion on technological determinism, examples of management and control, relationship between science and technology, relationship religion and technology. Different civilizations across the world are sharing similar characteristic: mesopotamia, Egypt, indus river valley, yellow river in china, mesoamerica, south america: highly populated, centralized political and economic authority, regional states, stratified societies, complex architecture, higher learning. Stratified society can be explained through a triangle: Middle: vary degree of based on occupation, family background & socio-economic status. Larger pop required intensified agricultural production simple agriculture replaced by field agriculture. Hydraulic hypothesis; to understand the structure and rise of hierarchies: to understand this, we must focus on the technological system hydraulics. Hydraulic hypothesis large scale irrigation necessitates centralized ordination; leads to greater political integration: we need water for everything! Early science & technology in ancient civilizations aka natural philosophy.
