NATS 1775 Lecture 1: Unit 1 questions about tech (Autosaved) (16)
19 Jun 2016
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Unit 1: questions concerning technology: defining technology. 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 prior to this, alternative terms to technology used were practical arts, applied science and. 1831 jacob bigelow wrote book entitled elements of technology on the application of. When we combine knowledge and activity in our understanding of technology, we go beyond physical objects and get better idea of what tech is about. Moving beyond the material: technology as physical objects: tools, machines, instruments, weapons, appliances. The idea above is the most common understanding of technology. Material goods ranging from weapons to computers to electronics. Rethinking technological success and failure and revolutionary technologies .
