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  • Technology - comprised of the products and processes created by engineers to meet our needs and wants.
  • Technology
    – Study of our human-made world
    – Deals with “what can be”
  • Science
    – Study of our natural world
    – Deals with “what is”
  • Information Technology - allows us to send signals around the world.
  • Communication Technology - is giving or exchanging information.
  • Biotechnology - transforms living things into products or new forms of life.
  • Agricultural Technology - application of techniques to control the growth and harvesting of animal and vegetable products.
  • Medical Technology - technologies that diagnose, treat and/or improve a person's health and wellbeing
  • Environmental Technology - encompasses a wide range of innovations and practices that aim to address environmental issues and reduce the impact of human activities on the environment.
  • Production Technology - is the manufacturing of physical goods on an assembly line and the construction of structures on a job site.
  • Manufacturing
    • changes natural or synthetic materials into usable products.
  • Construction Technology - builds structures that support loads and protect us from the environment.
  • Transportation Technology - Provides a way for people, animals, products, and materials to be moved from one place to the next.
  • Energy technology - generates, converts, stores and distributes various forms of energy for use in a safe and economically responsible manner to improve the quality of life.
  • Power - is the rate at which energy is transformed from one form to another.
  • Nanotechnology - is manipulating materials on an atomic or molecular level.
  • Mobile phone subscription is at 119 million.
  • Filipinos spend approximately 3.2 hours on mobile and 5.2 hours on desktop daily.
  • alienation - no longer take time to get out of their houses and mingle with other people.
  • RESPONSIBILITY - the sense of being accountable for
  • HUMAN FLOURISHING
    • An effort to achieve self- actualization and fulfillment within the context of a larger community of individuals
  • Humans as both the bearer and beneficiary of science and technology.
  • Science and Technology must be treated as a part of human life that needs reflective (calculative) and meditative thinking.
  • Technological objects are means for ends, and built and operated by humans, but the essence of technology is something else entirely.
  • “Revealing” comes from the Greek word alèrtheuein - ‘to discover’ or alètheia (noun)- ‘truth’.
  • Technology is the way of revealing that characterizes our time. It embodies a specific way of revealing the world, a
    revealing in which humans take power over reality.
  • Eudaimonia - Greek word: Eu - good; daimon - spirit
  • Happiness
    • Ultimate end of human action
    • Defines good life
    • Does not come from sensate pleasures
    • Living a life of virtue
  • Virtue
    • a trait of character that enables a person to flourish.
    • The habit of making the right decisions and taking the right actions in context, and relentless pursuit of excellence for the common good.
    • Intellectual - based on experience and time
    • Moral - result of habit
  • Vice
    • Anything that does not contribute to happiness.
    • E.g. lack of discipline in eating healthy food eventually makes one sick.
    • Lack of concern for the environment destroys the Earth