What is technology Technology is the scientific methods

What is technology? • Technology is the scientific methods people use to improve their surroundings. Look around this classroom • It is also a knowledge of and give five examples. u using tools and machines to do tasks efficiently.

Computers Desktops u. Laptops u. Cars ui-Pods u. Airplanes u

How do we use computers? To learn u. To perform tasks u. Automation (Speed) u. To Communicate u. Music u

Communication Cell phones u E-mail u Television u Internet u Videogames u

Transportation Bicycles u Motorcycles u Automobiles u Buses u Trains u Planes u Rockets u

SPACE TECHNOLOGY ►In the second half of the 20 th century, humans created enough technology to leave the surface of the Earth and explore space.

Ancient Technology • The history (Early) of technology is at least as old as humanity. Some primitive Tools have been discovered forms of►tools ► Weapons with almost every find of ancient human remains dating from the time Flint spear, circa 100, 000 BC of primitive humans. • The earliest technologies turned easily found natural resources (such as rock, wood and other vegetation, bone and other animal byproducts) into simple tools.

The Wheel ►The wheel was invented circa 4, 000 BCE. This artifact was found in present day Iran. ►The flag of India has a wheel in its center.

And the The what use, perhaps and then(maybe) mastery, is of earliest example of technology? fire (circa 1, 000 500, 000 BCE was a turning ► in the technological point evolution of humankind, affording a simple energy source with many profound uses. Perhaps the first use of fire beyond providing heat was the preparation of food. This enabled a significant increase in both vegetable and Human’s use of FIRE

Modern Technology: The Integrated Circuit All computers contain these circuits u What do they look like? u Of what do they remind you? u

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