STS

• 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