Key Concepts

• Three-age system


  A system of classifying ancient ages into groups based on tool developmental stages
• Scientific revolution


  Period of great scientific intellectual achievements that contributed to essential changes in scientific investigations
• Industrial revolution


  Period of complex technological inventions that eventually replaced human and animal forces
• Information age or digital age


  The period characterized by the change from traditional industry to an economy that is founded on computerization of information
• Revolution


  A wide-reaching change in the way something works, organized or change in people's ideas about it
• Natural selection


  A process that results in the adaptation of an organism to its environment by means of selectively reproducing changes in genetic constitution
• Personality


  A combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual's distinctive character
• Behavior


  The range of actions and mannerisms made by individuals
• Artificial intelligence


  Intelligent behavior by machines rather than the natural intelligence of humans and other animals
• Civilization


  A complex human society in which people live in groups of settled dwellings
• Barangay is a geographically distributed, self-sufficient autonomous community
• Colonization


  The occupation by a nation of an area from which it was formerly absent
• Reduccion system


  A strategy of grouping far-flung, scattered barangays into fewer but larger and more compact towns
• Barangay


  Geographically distributed, self-sufficient autonomous community
• Colonization


  The occupation by a nation of an area from which it was formerly absent
• Philippine major development S&T programs

  Science-related programs and projects spearheaded by the Department of Science and Technology
• Philippine science and technology agenda - or research and development agenda, have five sectors

  • National Integrated Basic Research Agenda
  • Health Research and Development Agenda
  • Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources
  • Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology
  • Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation
• Indigenous science


  A product of indigenous knowledge perfected by man through life experiences
• Indigenous technology


  Product or process resulting from the continuous pursuit of indigenous science