NATS 1775 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Florence Cathedral, Spring Drive, Fishing Reel
7 Feb 2016
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Term technology only popularized after ww2, prior terms were: - practical arts, applied science, and engineering. Social and cultural factors play a key role in the success or failure of new technologies. Invention vs innovation (making a technology commercially successful) Nats 1775 midterm exam review: users often determine how a technology will be used and what shape it will take, unintended consequences. Technology and issues of race, class, culture, and gender: technologies for exploitation or oppression (think colonial expansion in the 18th c and 19th c and us and germany in the 20th. Religion and technology: relationship between religion and technology, justification of religious oppression/inequality. Issues of control; patents, standards, monopolies o: politics of technology policy and regulation. Lecture #2 technology in ancient and greco-roman civilizations. Mesopotamia, egypt, indus river valley, yellow river in china, High populations, centralized political and economic authority, regional states, stratified societies, complex architecture, higher learning.
