Geography 2152F/G : Technology and Society, the Manhattan Project.docx

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8 Apr 2012

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We have drawn an artificial boundary between the technological and social and have found a sense of false infallibility. Have accepted a temporarily stable working relationship among machines seeing people and their environment as the only state of affairs. Technical and social elements are in a fragile equilibrium. By putting technological artifacts back into their social contexts, we cover patterns that hold the clues to both past and future disasters. Developments in society are never passively trained by the uncontrollable necessities of technology. Technologies look the way they do because of their historical and cultural moorings and their connections with macro-features of economic and social organization. Organizational sociologists have argued that high risk and complex technology are characterized by tight coupling and complex interactions among components: instead of recovering from mistakes, such systems slide irresistibly into catastrophe. Large scale technologies can be resistant to democratic control. Important to the political roots of all technological artifacts.

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2. Which of the following statements accurately describe the relationship between science and technology?

⬤ Technology and science are the same thing, and achieve the same goals.

⬤ The knowledge gained from science helps humans develop technology.

⬤ Improvements in technology can allow for better scientific observations.

⬤ Science and technology both use the scientific method answer questions.

⬤ Technology allows scientists to avoid using the scientific method.

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8. Have you ever worn something from a culture other than your own? This includes thing like hairstyles, clothes and accessories.

Yes. Not only me, at present most of the people, all over the world are doing the same. In this world we live in a together in a society with people from different places, different customs, and backgrounds. As we live together, we grow together, we also learn about other cultures and we accept them. There is a mutual two way exchange of cultural behaviors. This process is usually called "Acculturation". Also with technologies like television, internet, social media, etc. There is a widespread of information which is easily accessible to everyone. People following other cultures is most commonly evident in their dressing style (fashion). For example, long ago in India, ancestors used to wear Kurtas and dhotis. Where as we can see now present generation wearing jeans, t-shirts, and shirts of different patterns which is originally adopted from western culture.

9. If yes, did you know the meaning, significance and importance of that symbol?

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1. Why does FM Radio sound better than AM Radio for music?

Because FM stations don’t transmit as far so the signal is stronger

Because FM broadcast allows modulation frequencies of 100-15,000 Hz.

Because only music stations broadcast on FM

Because FM is a new technology

2. This is a dish antenna with a lot of gain, designed to communicate with deep space satellites. The radio antenna pictured above has motors that point it at satellites. Why does the antenna need to move to work?