UNIVERSITY OF THE CORDILLERAS

GOV. PACK ROAD, BAGUIO CITY

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY
RESEARCH # 3

NAME: (FN, GN): Topiagon,Jedan A. DATE: 27/06/2020

SCHEDULE: WSAT 5:30PM-8:00PM

INSTRUCTION: GIVE THE DEFINITIONS OF THE FOLLOWING:

2 TYPES OF SCIENCE
I. Pure Science ---a science depending on deductions from demonstrated truths, such as mathematics or
logic, or studied without regard to practical applications.

II.AppliedScience- the discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to
practical problems.

Technology ---  refers to methods, systems, and devices which are the result of scientific knowledge
being used for practical purposes.

Basic types of Technology

1. Material technology --- a relatively comprehensive discipline that begins with the production of goods
from raw materials to processing of materials into the shapes and forms needed for specific applications.

Impacts of Materials Technology

POSITIVE IMPACTS ---  New products to help make our life easier and increase leisure time. Supports
the economy.

NEGATIVE IMPACTS --- Many industries use materials that can harm the environment. It

replaces more jobs than it creates; a machine replaces several manual laborers and only needs one
operator or technician.

2. Energy and Power Technology --- an interdisciplinary engineering science having to do with the
efficient, safe, environmentally friendly and economical extraction, conversion, transportation, storage
and use of energy, targeted towards yielding high efficiency whilst skirting side effects on humans, nature
and the environment.

Impacts of Energy and Power Technology

POSITIVE IMPACTS --- There are clean forms of energy that do not use natural resources or create
greenhouse gases. Power makes work easier. Power can be created many different ways-coal,gas,
nuclear,solar, etc.

NEGATIVE IMPACTS --- Generating energy is very expensive and it typically uses non-renewable
resources. Technological products and systems need energy to function. Burning fossil fuel causes
greenhouse gases to form.

3. Information Technology --- the study or use of systems (especially computers and telecommunications)
for storing, retrieving, and sending information.

Impacts of Information Technology

POSITIVE IMPACTS --- infromation is stored and easiy accessed online. Use computers to easily gather
and store data.

NEGATIVE IMPACTS --- it is harder to distinguish between reliable and unreliable sources online.
Machines must be maintained and upgraded.

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4. Life Technology or Biotechnology --- the exploitation of biological processes for industrial and other
purposes, especially the genetic manipulation of microorganisms for the production of antibiotics,
hormones, etc.

Impacts of Bio-Related Technology

POSITIVE IMPACTS --- improves quality of live through the use of vitamins, vaccines,and medications.
Extensive research on controlling and eliminating diseases.
NEGATIVE IMPACTS --- Some medications have side effects like nausea,shortness or breath, etc.

5. Communication Technology --- known as information technology, refers to all equipment and
programs that are used to process and communicate information. Professionals in
the communication technology field specialize in the development, installation, and service of these
hardware and software systems.

Impacts of Communication Technology

POSITIVE IMPACTS --- Digital cameras allow you to edit and print on the pictures you like. CAD
programs use a computer to generate more accurate drawings in a shorter period of time.

NEGATIVE IMPACTS --- Computers, printers, and digital cameras make forgery and plagiarism easier.
People tend to create and print more documents, which uses more paper.

6. Agricultural Technology --- application of techniques to control the growth and harvesting of animal
and vegetable products.

Impacts of Agricultural Technology

POSITIVE IMPACTS --- fertilizers can make plants produce more food per acre. More variety of food
and healthier choices

NEGATIVE IMPACTS --- fertilizers have found their way ito ground water, polluting good drinking
water. Genetically altered crops have potential for weeds and insects to mutate and become resistant

7. Medical Technology --- is when we use that knowledge to protect living organisms (usually humans)
from disease or death. Medical technologies can be used for diagnosis, the process of figuring out what's
wrong with someone, or for treatment, the process of making someone better.

Impacts of Medical Technology

POSITIVE IMPACTS --- x-rays make it easier to diagnose injuries. Modern technology has improved the
quality of life for people with serious medical conditions.

NEGATIVE IMPACTS --- too many x-rays can cause cancer. The cost for equipment and research is
going up and some patients can not afford treatment because of it.

8. Environmental Technology --- refers to the application of environmental sciences in the development

of new technologies which aim to conserve, monitor or reduce the harm humans regularly cause
the environment while consuming its resources.

Impacts of Environmental Technology

POSITIVE IMPACTS --- recycling improves water and air quality. Reduces chance of disease from
pollution and chemicals.

NEGATIVE IMPACTS --- recycling is more complicated and time consuming than garbage disposal.

9. Production Technology --- would be to include any machinery that makes creating a tangible physical
product possible for a business. To the small business, this means a workshop at the very least, with more
elaborate operations making use of machines and assembly lines.

A. Manufacturing Technology --- provides the tools that enable production of all manufactured goods. ...
Machine tools are non-portable, power-driven manufacturing machinery and systems used to perform
specific operations on man-made materials to produce durable goods or components.

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B. Construction Technology --- refers to the collection of innovative tools, machinery, modifications,
software, etc. used during the construction phase of a project that enables advancement in
field construction methods, including semi-automated and automated construction equipment.

Impacts of Production Technology

POSITIVE IMPACTS --- construction provides shelter and improves roads. Creates employment
opportunities

NEGATIVE IMPACTS --- noise and debris, traffic problems, accidents and injuries.

10. Transportation Technology ---  refers to tools and machines used to solve problems or improve
conditions in respect to the movement of people and goods.

Impacts of Transportation Technology

POSITIVE IMPACTS --- You can travel long distances faster. There are many options of how you can
travel from one place to another

NEGATIVE IMPACTS --- Traffic accidents. Pollution from vehicles and the use of natural resources

11. Nanotechnology --- manipulation of matter on an atomic, molecular, and supramolecular scale.

Impacts of Nanotechnology
POSITIVE IMPACTS ---implanted sensors continuously sense and adjust medical technology. Molecular
manufacturing creates faster diagnosis of diseases

NEGATIVE IMPACTS --- Implanted sensors impeded privacy. Weapons and surveillance devices can be
made small, cheap, and powerful by using molecular manufacturing

12. Management Technology --- can also be defined as the integrated planning, design, optimization,
operation and control of technological products, processes and services, a better definition would be
the management of the use of technology for human advantage.

Impacts of Management Technology

POSITIVE IMPACTS --- Reduced costs of operations. New product and new market creation.
NEGATIVE IMPACTS --- The practice of technology management and the development of technology
strategy require an understanding of the different forms of innovation and the features of each form.

13. Equipment technology --- means technology assets including mainframe computers, servers, general
computer equipment, printers, monitors, hard drives, memory, storage devices and call centers/ACD
systems but excluding Flight Simulators.

Impacts of Equipment Technology

POSITIVE IMPACTS --- When creating new materials, recycled materials can be used to help the
environment. Enables us to design durable, better-performing, cost-efficient construction materials and
components

NEGATIVE IMPACTS --- With the creation of new materials, we don't know how the materials will
behave over a long period of time.

*** OTHER TYPES OF TECHNOLOGY NOT INCLUDED IN THE LIST ***

3 DISCOVERIES IN SCIENCE
1. Discovery by serendipity --- the occurrence of an unplanned fortunate discovery
Give examples: when someone accidently finds something good.

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2. Discovery by Intuition --- the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial
way.

Give examples: Dennis found some money in the pocket of his suit jacket that he hadn't worn in two
years.

3. Discovery by trial and error --- repeated attempts to discover.

Give examples: a skillful way in which his terrier Tony opened the garden gate, easily misunderstood as
an insightful act by someone seeing the final behavior.

*** OTHER TYPES OF DISCOVERY NOT INCLUDED IN THE LIST

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Technology Management - strategy, organization, system, examples, advantages,
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