Chapter 6
TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING
• Comparing the lives of the people before and now will make anyone realize the changes that
happened in society not just in terms of culture, language, or rights but more importantly, changes in
people's way of life due to the existence of science and technology.
– It is a challenge for people in the field of science and technology to make these
technologies more accessible and less confusing for people who are not as young anymore.
– In addition, people live easier with technology, develop the skills of people and makes the
people enjoy to see what feature of technology may cause to the lives of people.
THE HUMAN CONDITION BEFORE COMMON ERA
– People before the common Era are gifted with brains, more advance than other creatures.
Humans are able to utilize abundant materials for their own ease and comfort that they discover new
things to motivate their selves to do, and use the tools with a purpose.
– Homo erectus have been using fire to cook, chipping to produce a spark, and without
realizing the laws of friction and heat.
– People discover minerals and began forging metal work just like their jewelries considered
to be a luxury for them such as bones of animals they hunt.
Different Tribes, Different Gods as people who lived in the past know how to provide their
needs by rituals or ceremonies to their gods.
THE HUMAN CONDITION IN THE COMMON ERA
– Humans were content of their relationship with nature.
– Earliest case of man-made extinction occurred over 12,000 years ago, possibly brought upon by
hunting and territorial disputes.
-The Holocene Extinction is an ongoing extinction and is a result of human activity.
– Growing population, overhunting and overfishing are endemic therefore it can cause extinction of
resources.
– They began to hunt, farm and produce things with prospect of profit. Technology has been
instrumental in all of these because in searching for the good life, people were able to come up with
creations that would make life easier, more comfortable and more enriching.
– Advancements in medicine, technology, health and education ushered in humanity's best yet, and
show no sign of stopping.
Notable Comparisons (in the usage of technology of the past and the present eras)
1. Mortality Rate
- Medical care for premature infants allows them to survive and develop normally, while
proper maternal care ensures that mothers can fully cover remain empowered.
2. Average Lifespan
- Science is able to prolong lives by enhancing living status and discovering different
remedies to most diseases.
3. Literacy Rate
- access to education provided to more individuals generally creates a more informed public
that could determine a more just society.
4. Gross Domestic Product
- determine the value of the country's goods and services produced within the territory given a
certain time period.
ESSENCE OF TECHNOLOGY
– Humanity has indeed come a long way from our primitive ways, and has a general rule, we are more
"develop" than we were before. We see ways and means from nature to utilize and achieve growth a
goal that we believe would bring forth betterment.
– Martin Heidegger - a philosopher argued that the essence of technology, or purpose, and being are
different from each other. To achieve man's end and second which constitutes human activity.
BACKTRACKING THE HUMAN CONDITION
– Technology's initial promises proved to be true. All in all, the human condition improved only if by
improving we measure the level of comfort, various scientific breakthroughs and improved lifestyles
by of who had the luxury to afford to do so.
– Some places are still battling for their daily survival diseases, tribe wars, lack of habitable
territories, and competitions on resources are several contributing to such.
