GEN 003 – science technology & society 3.

Do Background Research (Search for existing

answers or solutions)
LESSON 7
4. Hypothesis (Formulate hypothesis)
Static Lightning (Ben Franklin 1700s) 5. Conduct an Experiment (Design and perform
an experiment)
6. Test Hypothesis (Accept or reject hypothesis)
7. Draw Conclusions (Make conclusions based on
First Battery (Alessandro Volta)
hypothesis)
8. Report (Share your results)

Electricity and Magnetism LESSON 8

The Human Condition Before Common Era

ELECTRICITY ➢ Our early ancestors' primal need to survive
paved way for the invention of several
Plastic
developments
➢ 1900s
➢ Gifted with brains more advanced than other
➢ 1st synthetic plastic made by a chemist
creatures, humans are able to utilize abundant
Modern Agriculture materials for their own case and comfort
➢ 1940s ➢ As it is difficult to pinpoint the particular
➢ Biologist began developing high-yield period where technology is said to have
varieties of corn, wheat, rice started, one can say that at the very least, the
➢ Which when paired with new fertilizers, motivation to make things easier has been
pesticides developed by chemist around since humans are
➢ Homo erectus have been using fire to cook,
Modern Medicine
through chipping one flint over the other to
➢ 1700s, vaccination
produce a spark, all the while without
➢ 1800s, diseases caused by germs
realizing the laws of friction and heat
➢ 1920s, a biologist discovered the first
➢ Tools from stones and flints marked the era of
antibiotic
Stone Age, during the advent of our very own
SCIENTIFIC METHOD Homo sapiens, and humans began to sharpen
stones as one would a knife
➢ The logical process adopted by scientists to o simple machine called wedge
develop knowledge of nature and present it as The Human Condition in the Common Era
an acceptable fact ➢ Position-wise, the humans of today are much
➢ This method is based on gathering empirical better off compared to humans several
data through observation and experimental centuries ago
and the formulation and testing of hypothesis ➢ Advancements in medicine, technology, health
Steps of the Scientific Method: and education ushered in humanity's best yet,
1. Observe (Make an observation) and show no sign of stopping
2. Question (Ask a question)
The following are some of the notable ➢ Modern humans are reliant on technology in
comparisons then and now: their search for the good life
1. Mortality Rate ➢ Man is constantly in pursuit of the good life
➢ Due to technology, lesser women and children ➢ Every person has his perspective when it
die during birth, assuring robust population comes to what comprises the good life
and strong workforce ➢ Science and technology has been, for the most
➢ Medical care for premature infants allows part, at the forefront of man's attempts at
them to survive and develop normally, while finding this happiness
proper maternal care ensures that mothers ➢ The only question at the end of the day is
can fully recover and remain empowered whether science and technology are taking the
2. Average Lifespan right path toward attaining what it really
➢ Aside from the reason that people engage less means to live a good life
in combat and are less likely to die in treatable
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diseases now as opposed to then, science is
able to prolong lives by enhancing living
Nicomachean Ethics
status and discovering different remedies to
➢ A philosophical inquiry into the nature of
most diseases
the good life for a human being
➢ Distribution of medicines is also made easier
➢ A book written by Aristotle named for
and faster
Nicomachus
3. Literacy Rate
• which in keeping with the Greek practice
➢ Access to education provided to more
of boys being named after their
individuals generally creates a more informed
grandfathers, was the name of both
public that could determine a more just
Aristotle's father and his son
society
4. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) In Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle discusses the
➢ Although not an indicator of an average following eleven (11) virtues:
person's lifestyle in a certain country, it is 1. Courage
often used to determine the value of the ➢ The midpoint between cowardice and
country's goods and services produced within recklessness
the territory given a certain time period ➢ The courageous person is aware of the danger
➢ Higher country income is brought upon by but goes in any way
high productivity, often an indicator of 2. Temperance
presence of technology ➢ The virtue between overindulgence and
insensitivity
The Essence of Technology
➢ Aristotle would view the person who never
➢ Humanity has indeed come a long way from
drinks just as harshly as the one who drinks
our primitive ways, and as a general rule, it is
too much
said that we are more "developed" than we
3. Generosity
were before
➢ The virtue of charity, this is the golden mean
➢ Above data are few indicators of the route that
between miserliness and giving more than
we have come to take as species, and there are
you can afford
no signs of stopping
4. Magnificence
➢ the virtue of living extravagantly
➢ It rests between stinginess and vulgarity
➢ Aristotle sees no reason to be ascetic but also
warns against being flashy
5. Magnanimity
➢ The virtue relating to pride, it is the
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midpoint between not giving yourself
enough credit and having delusions of
Some facts about Filipinos and their use of
grandeur
gadgets and the internet:
➢ It is a given that you also have to act on this
➢ Mobile phone subscription is at 119 million
sense of self-worth and strive for greatness
➢ Filipinos spend approximately 3.2 hours on
6. Right ambition
mobile and 5.2 hours on desktop daily
➢ A disposition to aim at the intermediate
➢ Currently, the Philippines has one of the
between empty vanity and undue humility
highest digital populations in the world
7. Patience
➢ There are now 47 million active Facebook
➢ This is the virtue that controls your temper
accounts in the Philippines
➢ The patient person must neither get too angry
➢ The Philippines is the fastest-growing
nor fail to get angry when they should
application market in Southeast Asia
8. Truthfulness
➢ The virtue of honesty Ethical/Maral Dilemmas Faced by These
➢ Aristotle places it between the vices of Technological Advancements:
habitual lying and being tactless or boastful ➢ Children become lazy and unhealthy
9. Wittiness ➢ Alienation, because people no longer take time
➢ At the midpoint between buffoonery and to get out of their houses and mingle with
boorishness, this is the virtue of a good other people
sense of humor ➢ People have the tendency to be unaware of the
10. Friendliness time because they are so engrossed with the
➢ While being friendly might not seem like a use of technological device
moral virtue, Aristotle claims friendship is a
Possible Trends when Technology and
vital part of a life well-lived
Humanity Cross:
➢ This virtue lies between not being friendly
➢ Augmenting humans with technology
at all and being too friendly towards too
➢ Machines replacing humans
many people
➢ Humans and machines working alongside
11. Justice
each other
➢ The virtue of dealing fairly with others
➢ It lies between selfishness and LESSON 12
selflessness
➢ This virtue can also be applied in different The Information Age
situations and has a whole chapter ➢ Defined as a "period starting in the last
dedicated to the various forms it can take quarter of the 20th century when
information became effortlessly accessible
through publications and through the
 management of information by computers manufacturing of
and computer networks" goods
➢ The means of conveying symbolic
information (e.g.. writing, math, other codes)
among humans has evolved with increasing
speed
➢ The Information Age is also called the Digital
Age and the New Media Age because it was
associated with the development of computers

Various aspects of our society are also being

influenced by the Information Age
➢ Communication, Economics, Industry, Health
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and the Environment

According to James R. Messenger who proposed Advantages

the Theory of Information Age in 1982, "the ➢ Commonly attributed to automation include
Information Age is a true new age based upon the higher production rates and increased
interconnection of computers via productivity, more efficient use of materials,
telecommunications, with these information better product quality, improved safety,
systems operating on both a real-time and as- shorter workweeks for labor, and reduced
needed basis. Furthermore, the primary factors factory lead times
driving this new age forward are convenience
➢ Higher output and increased productivity
and user-friendliness which, in turn, will create
have been two of the biggest reasons in
user dependence"
justifying the use of automation
➢ Despite the claims of high quality from good
Before After
workmanship by humans, automated systems
During Galileo’s and Today, the human
typically perform the manufacturing process
Newton’s time, people mind is pictured as a
were viewed as complicated computer with less variability than human workers,
complicated resulting in greater control and consistency of
mechanical machines product quality
Thomas Alva Edison Steven Jobs ➢ Also, increased process control makes more
➢ Telegraph ➢ Computer efficient use of materials, resulting in less
Alexander Graham William Gates scrap
Bell ➢ Softwares
➢ Telephone Disadvantage
Henry Ford ➢ Often associated with automation, worker
➢ Automation displacement, has been discussed above
Screw and bolt in the Microchip (investors ➢ Despite the social benefits that might result
Industrial era were awarded a Nobel from retraining displaced workers for other
Prize in Physics in jobs, in almost all cases the worker whose job
2000) has been taken over by a machine undergoes
Majority of labor force Majority are engaged a period of emotional stress
was into in supply of services
 ➢ In addition to displacement from work, the
worker may be displaced geographically
➢ In order to find other work, an individual may
have to relocate, which is another source of
stress
➢ Other disadvantages of automated
equipment include the high capital
expenditure required to invest in automation
(an automated system can cost millions of
dollars to design, fabricate, and install), a
higher level of maintenance needed than with
a manually operated machine, and a generally
lower degree of flexibility in terms of the
possible products as compared with a manual
system (even flexible automation is less
flexible than humans, the most versatile
machines of all)

Automation
➢ The technique, method or system of
operating or controlling a process by highly
automatic means, as by electronic devices

Information Age
Automation

Society

Positive Effects Negative Effects