STS

• STS or Science, Technology and Society

  Studies how technological innovation affects society, politics and culture
• Science


  • One of the most important networks of information
  • Has a definite part, as well as a diversity of purposes for the advantage of our society: creating new knowledge, improving education, and increasing the quality of our lives
• Advances of science and technology

  • Transportation and Navigation
  • Communication And Record-keeping
  • Mass Production
  • Security and Protection
  • Health
  • Aesthetics and Architecture
• Advances of science and technology gave rise to the quality of lives of the civilization during ancient time
• Communication


  The act of transferring information from one place to another to facilitate trade and prevent possible conflicts
• Good records can increase their success to document the trades they made with each other
• Weapons and armors were important as well in the discovery of new places or the establishment of new alliances with other tribes
• The Sumerians of ancient Mesopotamia invented many things that are a part of our daily life today, from mathematics to weaponry
• The hanging gardens of Babylon are a set of gardens located in the ancient city of Babylon, Iraq
• The Egyptian's inventions were many and it might be easier to list the things they did not invent such as the wheel
• Ancient Greeks made many influential contributions to western civilization such as in the areas of philosophy, art and architecture, math and science
• Greek inventions


  • Architecture
  • Plato's Alarm Clock
• The Roman Empire was one of the highest kingdoms, and one of the most powerful civilizations of all time
• The Roman Empire was aggressive at war but it was also a innovator of technical development and many inventions
• Ancient China has many contributions to the modern world since 1600BCE
• Chinese inventions


  • Paper
  • Compass
  • Silk
  • Gunpowder
  • Fireworks
• After the fall of Rome in the West during the 5th Century AD, the power vacuum it created forced its former conquests into centuries of bitter warfare, famine, disease, and strife
• Yet despite the constant fear of death, there was enough calm during the Middle Ages for great leaps forward in science and invention
• Thomas Edison liked to say that he never failed. He succeeded every now and again with an invention that would change the world
• Modern inventions


  • Machines
  • Pasteurization
  • Petroleum refinery
  • Calculator
• Modern inventions tend more toward improving than transforming: an app that connects the world in a better way, planes that fly farther, faster
• Filipinos has accumulated knowledge and developed technology stemmed from necessities; from naval navigation knowledge, traditional shipbuilding technology, textile techniques, food processing to Architecture, indigenous arts and techniques, cultural inventions, scientific discoveries and contributions of the people of Philippine archipelago — both ancient and modern state of the Philippines