Week 3-4 History of S_T (Part 1) PDF

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This document provides an overview of the history of science and technology, touching on various periods, including ancient, classical, and modern times. It also covers key figures and concepts, such as the scientific method. The document is suitable for an undergraduate course on science and technology.

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HISTORICAL ANTECEDENTS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY​ (Week 3-4 Part 1) Science, Technology and Society 1st Semester SY 2023-2024 1 TOPICS: HISTORICAL ANTECEDENTS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE ANCIENT PERIODS A. World ❑ Ancient Age​ ❑ Middle Age​ ❑ Modern Age (Information Age​) B. Intellectu...

HISTORICAL ANTECEDENTS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY​ (Week 3-4 Part 1) Science, Technology and Society 1st Semester SY 2023-2024 1 TOPICS: HISTORICAL ANTECEDENTS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE ANCIENT PERIODS A. World ❑ Ancient Age​ ❑ Middle Age​ ❑ Modern Age (Information Age​) B. Intellectual Revolutions ❑ Copernican​ ❑ Darwinian​ ❑ Freudian​ ❑ Scientific Method and Its Application to Research​ ❑ Other Revolutions​ C. History of Science and Technology in the Philippines LEARNING OUTCOMES DISCUSS THE ; INTERACTIONS IDENTIFY THE BETWEEN ARTICULATE PARADIGM SHIFTS WAYS BY WHICH S&T & SOCIETY IN HISTORY SOCIETY IS THROUGHOUT TRANSFORMED HISTORY BY SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; AND​ A Glimpse of the History of Science and Technology Ancient World Classical Antiquity Modern Age ANCIENT WORLD HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY S&T in the ancient age Stone tools have been the first recognized technology (or craft?) -Made by one of our direct ancestors (H. habilis or H. rudolfensis) 25,000,000 years ago Bunch, B and Hellemans, A. The History of Science and Technology. Houghton Mifflin Company. New York, USA. 2004. HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MIDDLE AGES HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY The Information Age (1973 through present) The Information Age (Digital Age) When was the last time you used something digital? Bunch, B and Hellemans, A. The History of Science and Technology. Houghton Mifflin Company. New York, USA. 2004. The Information Age (1973-2003) ❖ The focus of S&T and society became “information” itself (handling and conveying it) ❖ Progress in electronics and computers caused information to be one of the most important commodities ❖ Advances in biology ✔ Genetics – revolution in information science (recombinant DNA) ✔ The immune system – also an information processing system Information & society BEFORE NOW During Galileo’s and Newton’s time, people were viewed as Today, the human mind is pictured as complicated mechanical machines a complicated computer Thomas Alva Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and Henry Ford Steven Jobs and William Gates Screw and bolt in the Industrial era Microchip (inventors were awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000) Majority of labor force was into Majority are engage in supply of manufacturing of goods services Please add text here, Please add text here, according to the need according to the need to adjust the font and to adjust the font and font size. font size. ADD KEY WORDS ADD KEY WORDS ADD KEY WORDS ADD KEY WORDS Please add text here, Please add text here, according to the need according to the need to adjust the font and to adjust the font and font size. font size. Please add text here, according to the need to adjust the font and font size. Please add text here, according to the need to adjust the font and font size. Please add text here, according to the need to adjust the font and font size. Please add text here. ✔ “in form” – what we are “What makes a tree a tree? And not cement?” ✔ For 2000 years, explanation/answers were based on the head (natural philosophy/reason) ✔ Oral tradition – fascination with sounds and words ✔ Print and written culture – printing press ✔ DARPA (Defense Advanced Research projects Agency) during WW2 “If war is in space, what if satellites are down?” ✔ Developed ground-based communication, giving rise to Internet ✔Alan Turing broke the Nazi code ✔Developed the concept of computers Artificial intelligence ▪ use of machines to imitate the way humans think and behave ▪ replicate in a computer the actions and functions of biological neurons found in the human body https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWmX3pd1f10 Artificial Intelligence In 5 Minutes | What Is Artificial Intelligence? | AI Explained | Simplilearn – YouTube

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