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 “whatis”
Information Technology - allows us to sendsignals 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