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1. Technology: the correct use of tools a. Technology should make life easier &/or help us have fun. b. Technology should improve our lives c. No. Overweight, makes life too easy, addiction to video games, killing, carry out what they see. 2. Ergonomics: designing objects that help people with jobs, environment, sports, safety, or anything that involves people. 3. System: an organized way to achieve a goal. 1. Input 2. Output 3. Process 4. Feedback 4. Trade-off: all systems have trade-offs 1. Intended Outcome= Good 2. Unintended Outcome= Bad 5. Difference between science & technology a. science focuses on the natural world b. technology: focuses on the correct use of tools, making life easier & fun. 6. Technology also includes inventions & inovations invention is a new product innovation improves existing product. 7. Technology should use resources efficiently; 4 R's 1. Reduce 2. Reuse 3. Renew 4. Recycle 8. The history of technology -Agriculture Age: Up to the 1700's - people used wooden plows -Intrustrial Age: 1700's to 1950's people had factories & steam engines -Informational Age: 150's to now people using computer Made the sharing of information faster & more organized Sharing information has made inventions & innovations happen faster 9. Current Technologies -Digital Electronics Uses a binary code- 0 & 1 to program computers Allows us to move a ton of information at one time. -Resources we use in technology Natural Resources: not man made Synthetic Resources: Man made materials