Student Name: _Tyrese Gibson_______________________

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? Yes people can survive without
technology it will just be a harder life to adjust to and to Manage.
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2. As technology advances, do people live longer or shorter lives? People lives get
longer because they have more advance products and advanced
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3. As technology advances, does technology become more or less complex?
Technology become less complex because it when it started off it was complex so
they always find ways to make it

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4. As technology advances, do people become more or less specialized in the things
they do for a living? I think people become less specialized in what they do for a
living because technology just make it easier
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7. 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)? Ye Yes all of the technology being made
now is to help people and make their life easier.
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7. As technology advances, do the things we make, become: more reliable?

Safer? More durable? Perform better? Yes because now and days they are
trying make sure technology has as less flaws as
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7. As technology advances, does it require more or fewer science and math

applications? It do require more science and math to make it more advance and to
make
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