Science, Technology, and Society

• Wavefront anaylisis


  is about the history of the succession of waves of change.
• wavefront analysis is characterized by ____?

  technology
• Technology as the ________ for social change.

  driving force
• what was the main method to provide basic needs especially food and clothing, before agriculture?

  hunting
• it is associated with domestication?

  agriculture
• domestication 


  the process of taming, cultivating, or controlling plants or animals that were originally wild.
• farming and irrigation


  what was found to be more productive, predictable, and with steadier supply than hunting?
• what was reliant on the intensive use of living batteries (people and animals) and renewable resources?

  agricultural revolution
• what was followed by the plow?

  the useful stick
• Egypt and Mesopotamia


  11000-10000 BCE
• Asia


  9000 BCE
• 8000-6000


  New Guinea
• 5000 BCE


  Sub-Saharan Africa
• 4000-3000


  The Americas
• When did the industrial revolution start?

  18th to 19th century
• it was like the discovery of the "New World"

  The industrial Revolution
• Industrial revolution began in ___?

  Britain
• population growth was rapid during the Industrial Revolution to the point of _______?

  population explosion
• what major invention was a major faction during the industrial revolution?

  engine
• what became a prime commodity because engines could function with steam?


  land with water
• it can even support the primary means of transportation, like trains?

  steam engine
• it was a culprit of child labor?

  industrial revolution
• it means that small children were forced to maneuver in very hot areas to ensure the furnace kept burning or in simple terms, forced children to work?

  child labor
• which wave of society live off widely dispersed sources of energy?

  first wave
• which wave of society became almost totally dependent on highly concentrated deposits of fossil fuel?

  second wave
• what became a model of culture of efficiency?

  factories
• It was characterized by mass production, which gave cheaper products, not just during that time but even today?

  2nd industrial revolution
• what industry in USA was labor intensive?

  cotton industry
• What was among the key factors of the bloody civil war that killed 620,000 people. more that all those US-led wars to date?

  Slavery
• when was the ban on African slaves imposed?

  1808
• in the UK, child labor ended through social reform by ______?

  social legislation
• where were the elderly transferred?

  home for the afed
• what is the third wave?

  the information or knowledge age
• they exploit the innate learning and explorative nature of their customers?

  producers
• Who was the co-founder of Digital Equipment Corporation?

  Ken Olsen
• What was the 4th wave?

  ATM
• it shows the imminent end of the use of coal, a finite resource, pollutant, and now deemed as among the factors of climate change.

  renewable energy
• what is the first wave?

  Agricultural Era
• What was the second wave?

  industrial era
• what is focused on producing computers that can "think" like humans?

  artificial intelligence