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Technology and Society

Technology • Technology is the use of scientific knowledge and processes to solve problems and carry out tasks.

Technology • Technology can be simple, like an axe, or complex, like a computer program. • Technology is created by inventors or improved by innovators.

Space Exploration • Technology developed for space exploration has lead to improving the lives of regular people too • Example: freeze-dried foods, Velcro, satellite imagery

Military • Technology developed for the military has lead to improving the lives of regular people too • Example: infrared goggles, lasers, new materials (Kevlar)

Medicine • Technology developed for medicine has lead to improving the lives of regular people too • Example: robotics, band-aids, germ-x

Technological Solutions • Technology can create solutions to problems • However, all technology has both benefits (good things) and drawbacks (bad things)

Technological Solutions • Storm Water Runoff- sent to treatment plants to decontaminate

Technological Solutions • Fiber Optics- used to send lots of information quickly

Technological Solutions • Windmills- transforms energy of motion into electricity

Technological Solutions • Fuel Efficient Cars- decreases pollution and need for oil

Technological Solutions • Electronic Trains- can move lots of people quickly

Technological Solutions SONAR- can map the ocean, find submarines

Technological Solutions • Robotics- efficient workers, helps people

Technological Solutions • Hubble Telescope- see farther into space than we ever have before

Technology and Science • New technology can lead to new scientific discoveries • New scientific discoveries can lead to new technology

Technology and Science • Technology: Hubble Telescope • Discovery: How stars form and what is in our universe

Technology and Science • Technology: Electron microscope • Discovery: insides of cells

Technology and Science • Technology: SONAR • Discovery: composition of the earth and ocean floor

Technology and Science • Technology: space shuttles • Discovery: space exploration

Technology and Science • Technology: Doppler radar • Discovery: weather patterns and tracking

Technology and Science • Technology: MRI and CAT-scans • Discovery: brain activity

Science and Society • Science and society can influence one another • Scientific knowledge influences the way people think about themselves, others, and the environment

Science and Society • Challenges of society inspire questions for scientific researchdiseases, fuels • Priorities of the society influence research priorities through giving or refusing research funding

Future Technology • There are many remaining problems (physical, social, economic, and environmental) society faces that technology may be able to help solve • Problems that might be solved include: alternative fuels, space travel, and AIDS

Invention Trivia Questions 1. Paul Revere 2. Mark Twain 3. Thomas Jefferson 4. Abraham Lincoln 5. Harry Houdini Diving suit that allows quick escape B. Adjustable suspenders C. Cold-rolling copper mill D. Revolving chair E. Pontoon chambers for steamboats A.

Invention Trivia Questions 1. Paul Revere C 2. Mark Twain B 3. Thomas Jefferson D 4. Abraham Lincoln E 5. Harry Houdini A Diving suit that allows quick escape B. Adjustable suspenders C. Cold-rolling copper mill D. Revolving chair E. Pontoon chambers for steamboats A.

Invention Trivia Questions What invention is named after these people? � Frank Zamboni � Wilbert Gore � Louis Braille � Roy Jacuzzi � Samuel Colt � Earl Tupper � Rudolf Diesel