Module 5

• Technology


   making, modification, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems, and methods of organization.

   
• Palaeolithic 


  technology is the oldest known, but probably people used technology long before then.
• Generation Gap


  is the lack of communication between generations, esp. young people and parents caused by differences of tastes, values outlook etc.
• Human Condition Before Common Era

   Stone age period

  METAL AGE PERIOD
• HOMO ERECTUS ( Stone age period)


  discovered fire by chipping stones without realizing the laws of friction and heat. They used fire for cooking.
• HOMO SAPIENS ( Stone age period)


  began to sharpen stones used in hunting. I.e. Wedge. This period to be difficult in our ancestors. There are no written accounts except for cave drawings and unearthed artifacts.
• Primitive Gods


   elephants and mammoths  in their hunting ground

  Mountain Gods to explain wind currents and ask for provisions.

   Water Gods to ask for a good catch, and

  genetic Gods such as the sun.
• METAL AGE PERIOD


   Ancient people discovered minerals and began forging metal works. They discover that these are more durable, malleable and have more luster than the previous materials.
• Technology


   has been instrumental because in searching for a good life, people were able to come up with creation that would make life easier, more comfortable and enriching.
• MORTALITY RATE


  Due to technology, lesser women and children die during birth.
• AVERAGE LIFE SPAN


   Science is able to prolong lives and the distribution of medicines is also made easier and faster.
• LITERACY RATE

   Access to education provided to more individuals generally creates a more informed public.
• GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT


  higher country income is brought upon by high productivity – often and indicator of presence of technology.
• Martin Heidegger


  A philosopher who argued that its ESSENCE, or PURPOSE and BEING are different from each other
• technology according to Heidegger


  can either be perceived as a means to achieve man’s end and it constitute human activity or a way that each period reveals a particular character regarding man’s being.
• The Essence of Technology From Martin Heidegger,

  anthropologica

  instrumental
• Anthropological definition: Technology is a human activity.


  • To achieve an end and to produce and use a means to an end is, by itself, is a human activity.

  The production or invention of technological equipment, tools and machines, and the purpose and functions they serve are what define technology
• Instrumental definition: Technology is a means to an end


  • Technology is not an end in itself, it a means to an end.
  • Technology is viewed as a tool available to individuals, groups, and communities that desire to make an impact on society.
  • Technology is an instrument aimed at getting things done
• If the essence of technology can be understood as a way of bringing forth the truth in the sense of poiesis
• Enframing, according Heidegger


  calculative thinking

  meditative thinking.
• Calculative thinking


  • humans desire to put an order to nature to better understand and control it.
  • tends to be more commonly utilized, primarily because humans’ desire to control due to their fear of irregularity.
• Meditative thinking


  • humans allow nature to reveal itself to them without the use of force or violence.
  • Humans become part of the standing reserve and an instrument of technology, to be exploited in the ordering of nature.
• destining


  ·humans are challenged forth by enframing to reveal what is real.

  · to reveal nature carries with it the danger of misconstruction or misinterpretation.
• The Dangers of Technology


  The dangers of technology lies in how humans let themselves be consumed by it.

  In facing the dangers of technology, the fear of disappearing from the face of the Earth should concern people more potently than the fear of the Earth disappearing.