L4

• Technology


  The application of scientific knowledge to the practical aims of human life or the change and manipulation of the human environment
• Technology is the application of knowledge for achieving practical goals in a reproducible way
• Thinking outside the box

  • Creativity helps us think beyond limits, often self-imposed
  • There are specific skills like assumption busting, assumption reversals, problem reframing, and more to help you learn to think outside the box
• Francis Bacon: '"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator."'
• Albert Einstein: '"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."'
• Techne


  Art, skill, craft, or the way, manner, or means by which a thing is gained
• Logos


  Word, the utterance by which inward thought is expressed, a saying, or an expression
• Literally, technology means words or discourse about the way things are gained
• Science


  Understanding the workings of the natural world
• Technology


  Taking action to meet a human need
• Technology uses much more than scientific knowledge and includes values as much as facts, practical craft knowledge as much as theoretical knowledge