BIO 1130 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Essentialism, Sampling Error, List Of The 4400 Episodes

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIO 1130
• Professor: Jon Houseman

Document Summary

The concept that douglas adams came up with to describe the technological staged and changes that humanity went through and how those changes broadened our understanding. They are known has the ages of sand or silica since when silica or sand are heated they are turned into glass. 1= telescope= series of glass lenses that allowed to see far out in space, and give birth to astrological studies. 2= microscope = images and understanding of smaller things, cells. Making things invisible to the naked eye, visible. 3= computer chip = which is basically a silica chip that allowed capacity for large storage and mainly computed mathematical calculation at immense speeds. 4= fiber optics = ability to move info down glass fibers. Data transmission over a global distance - connectivity= share information in a global scale like never before. Created modern medicine by collecting editing information from many people and combine it all in the hippocratic corpus .