Student Name: Maya Johnson

Unit 1: Technological Inventions and Innovations

Lesson 1: Inventions and Innovations: An Evolutionary

Process
File 1.1.1: Enduring Ideas of Technology

Complete each question using your background knowledge. There is no right or

wrong response. You will be asked to share your responses with the class.

1. Can people survive without technology? I believe that it is possible for people to
survive without technology. Its a matter of how much people depend on
technology.

2. As technology advances, do people live longer or shorter lives? People are living
longer and healthier lives because of technological advances in the field of medicine.

3. As technology advances, does technology become more or less complex? I

believe that technology is becoming more complex because some things are harder
to understand when it comes to technology.
4. As technology advances, do people become more or less specialized in the things
they do for a living? I believe that people become more specialized because most
careers have to do with some form of technology.

2012 International Technology and Engineering Educators Association

Foundations of
Technology, Third Edition/
Technology, Engineering, and Design

5. As technology advances, do the tools and processes we use to make, build, and
do things become more efficient (become faster and require less material, energy
and fewer people)? Yes, for example when Charles Babbage invented the first
computer later on someone else reinvented the computer but used less tools and
materials.

6. As technology advances, do the things we make, become: more reliable? Safer?

More durable? Perform better? Yes, everything becomes more reliable, safer, and
better but you have to know not everything will always work the same and that
most things and stop working at any minute.

7. As technology advances, does it require more or fewer science and math

applications? I believe that it requires more science and math applications only
because everything will have an update and in order to do those updates you must
be more advanced in your work.

2012 International Technology and Engineering Educators Association

Foundations of
Technology, Third Edition/
Technology, Engineering, and Design