What is Technology?Mónica LópezDiego ValdezLorena Olea

Andrea MosquedaVerónica Gutierrez

There is one thing most people agree about technology It is important ◦ Things, actions, methods,

processes, and systems.◦ Progress

Seneca: when the words are corrupt, the mind is also.

What is technology?

Non-natural objects of all kinds manufactured by humans.

Usage 1: Hardware or Artifacts

The process of manufacturing hardware◦ Manufacturing of equipment◦ People who operate the equipment

All elements needed to manufacture a particular kind of hardware. The complete working system:◦ Inputs: people, machinery,

resources, processes, legal, economic, political and physical environment.

Usage 2: Sociotechnical system of manufacture

Ellul:

• Any form of rationalized methodology

Brooks:

• Knowledge needed for the Sociotechnical system of Manufature

Information, skills, processes and procedures, for accomplishing tasks.

Usage 3: Knowledge, Technique, Know-How, metodology

Usage 4: Sociotechnical System of Use

What we do with the hardware after it’s manufactured.

Without the system=

object without purpose

Depends on time…

What is technology?

Depends on social class…

What is technology?

Sociotechnical system

of manufacture

(produce)

Sociotechnical system of use

(diffusion)

Physical foundation for human society.

Animals use systems beavers, ants, etc. Humans innovations to improve the

system Without the systemshumans would not

exist or we would be powerless: few in number and not important.

With systems= masters of the planet

On the idols, the Scientific Study of

Nature, and the reformation of

Education

Was an English lawyer, statesman, essayist, historian, intellectual reformer, philosopher, and champion of modern science.

The need for a Philosophy of Invention The methods of discovery or invention are

just as much in need of examination. Those who try to discover the nature or

mode of operation of anything by the repetition of random experiments are never at one stay.

One discovery being the need for further investigation.

The nature of human ambition, 3 kinds:1. Those men who with restless striving seek to

augment their personal power in their own country.

2. Those who seek to advance the position of their own county in the world, and this maybe allowed to have more worth in it and less selfishness.

3. Those whose endeavour is to restore and exalt the power and dominion of man himself, of the human race, over the universe.

***Now the dominion of human over nature rests only on knowledge

The opinion men cherish about Antiquity is ill- considered and ill-suited to the word.

The term should mean the ripe age, the fullness of years, of the whole world.

“ The blacker the past, the brighter the hope of the future”

Interpretation of Nature(a problem)

Idols and false notions are interfering in the human understanding

4 kinds of Idols Idols of the tribe Idols of the cave Idols of the market - place Idols of the theather

Idols of the Tribe

“Its wrongly asserted thet the human sense is measure of things”

Perceptions = man´s reflections

Human understanding

corrupted

Evereybody change the nature of things by giving their own meaning to each of them.

Dalí / Diurnal Fantasies, 1932

Idols of the Cave

Bacon alluding Plato’s myth “The Cave”

“Each of us has his own and private cave or den, which breaks up and falsifies the lights of nature”

Each of us has some ideals or knowledge that don't let us to make an objective judgment about any situation, we are naturally impartial.

Idols of the market -place When words are applied to a common

understanding and these words are used in a wrong way or in an inapropiate application

Throw everything into confusion

Idols of the theatre

There are philosophies that have entered in human minds and created fictitius and imaginary worlds.

We can notice the enlargement of human power over nature.

It dosent matter how nature create the world and everything what happens in it because human explain whatever he understand.

Reformation of education The advancement of learning is a process

related with:

Places of learning (customes, traditions)

Books of learning : (knowledge of our

antecestors)

◦ Compilation of information (new editions)

Persons of the learned

* cultural context

A deffect in the education progress is the diversity of univeristies , there must be a connection between teaching in all the universities,

Efficient and necessary Missinterpretations Not personal Technology needs

Education Technology is education

Technology & Education