What is Science?

What is Technology?
Technology is comprised of the
products and processes created by
engineers to meet our needs and
wants.
 Technology vs. Science
Technology Science
◦ Study of our ◦ Study of our
human-made natural world
world ◦ Deals with “what
◦ Deals with “what is”
can be”
 How Does Technology Address Human
Needs and Wants?
Bio-Related
Information Communi- and Medical Environ-
cation Agriculture mental

Technology
Manufacturing
Energy Nanotechno-
and Transportation
and Power logy
Construction
Information Technology
✓ the process of gathering and storing data to
be used in various forms
✓ refers to devices (hardware) and programs
(software) used to store, retrieve and process
data
Examples: internet, satellite, GPS, cell phone,
computer
Impacts of Information Technology
POSITIVE IMPACTS NEGATIVE IMPACTS

INTERNET – INTERNET – Harder

Information is to distinguish
stored for easy between reliable and
access unreliable sources
Communication Technology
✓ process
of giving or exchanging information
(messages, pictures or sounds)
Examples:
Magazines, DVDs, photography, video games
telephones, radios, televisions, faxes, podcasts
Impacts of Communication Technology

POSITIVE IMPACTS NEGATIVE IMPACTS

COMPUTERS COMPUTERS
Allows exchange of Make forgery and
ideas, beliefs and plagiarism easier
notions with vast
audience
Bio-related and Agricultural Technology
Biotechnology transforms living things
into products or new forms of life.
DNA Replication
Examples: Genetic engineering, bionics
Agricultural Technology produces plants and
animals for food, fiber, and fuel.
Examples: Irrigation, food preservation, weed
and insect control
Both deal with living things:
Plants, animals, and people
Impacts of Bio-Related Technology

POSITIVE IMPACTS NEGATIVE IMPACTS

HEALTH – HEALTH – Side
Improves quality effects of some
of life, vitamins, medications –
vaccines, nausea, shortness
medications of breath, etc.
Impacts of Agricultural Technology
POSITIVE IMPACTS NEGATIVE IMPACTS

FERTILIZERS – FERTILIZERS – have

can make plants found their way into
produce more food ground water, polluting
per acre good drinking water
Medical Technology
✓ creates tools to treat disease and injury
✓ diagnosis and treatment
Examples:
Lasers, prostheses, ultrasound, medications
Impacts of Medical Technology

POSITIVE IMPACTS NEGATIVE IMPACTS

X-RAYS – Make X-RAYS – Too

it easier to many x-rays can
diagnose injuries cause cancer.
Environmental Technology
✓ creates
tools to minimize the effect of
technology on the development of living
things
Examples: Hybrid vehicles, conservation,
waste management (recycling)
Impacts of Environmental Technology
POSITIVE IMPACTS NEGATIVE IMPACTS

RECYCLING – RECYCLING –
Improves water and Disposal of garbage
air quality is more complicated
and time consuming
Production Technology
✓ themanufacturing of physical goods on an
assembly line and the construction of
structures on a job site.
Production Technology
Manufacturing Construction Technology
changes natural or builds structures that
synthetic materials support loads and
into usable products. protect us from the
Examples: Clothing, environment.
vehicles, food Examples: House, bridge,
roads
Impacts of Production Technology
POSITIVE IMPACTS NEGATIVE IMPACTS
MANUFACTURING – MANUFACTURING –
New products help to Many industries use
make our life easier materials that can
and increase leisure harm the
time environment
CONSTRUCTION – CONSTRUCTION –
Provides shelter, Noise and debris,
improves roads, traffic problems,
creates employment accidents and
opportunities injuries
Transportation Technology
✓ provides a way for people, animals,
products, and materials to be moved
from one place to the next.
Examples:
Flight – Airplane, rocket, space shuttle
Land – Train, subway, automobile, bicycle
Water – Commercial, cruise ships
Non-vehicle – Conveyor belts, pipelines
Impacts of Transportation
Technology
POSITIVE IMPACTS NEGATIVE IMPACTS

Traveling long Accidents

distances faster
Energy and Power Technology
✓ the ability or capacity to do work
✓ what technological products and systems
need to function
Examples:
Chemical Energy → Gasoline
Mechanical Energy → Motion
Thermal Energy → Steam
Electrical Energy → Electricity
Radiant Energy → Light
Energy and Power Technology
✓ the rate at which energy is transformed from
one form to another.
Examples:
Electrical power – provides light and
operates motors
Mechanical power – moves automobiles,
trains, and airplanes
Fluid power – uses fluids to produce motion
Hydraulic – uses a liquid
Pneumatic – uses a gas
Impacts of Energy and Power
Technology
POSITIVE IMPACTS NEGATIVE IMPACTS

With energy and Overuse of

power, nonrenewable
technologies resources
exists and work
 Nanotechnology
✓ manipulating materials on an atomic or
molecular level
✓ the creation of functional materials, devices
and systems through control of matter on the
nanometer length scale (1-100 nanometers)
Examples: Sensors, Nanobot, molecular
manufacturing
Impacts of Nanotechnology
POSITIVE IMPACTS NEGATIVE IMPACTS
IMPLANTED SENSORS IMPLANTED SENSORS

Continuously sense Impede privacy

and adjust medical
treatment
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 Ethical Dilemma Faced by Technological
Advancements

❑ Most parents would argue that these devices

make their children lazy and unhealthy.
❑ They have a great tendency to sit and chill all
day long without doing anything productive in
their homes.
❑ They do not just skip meals sometimes but also
lack exercise or any bodily movements.
 Ethical Dilemma Faced by Technological
Advancements

❑ These people have the tendency to be unaware

of the time because they are engrossed with the
use of technological device.
❑ In fact, if they get disturbed, there is a
great chance that they will get mad or
annoyed.
 Ethical Dilemma Faced by Technological
Advancements

Moreover, these are the same people

who are more likely to experience
alienation because they no longer take
time to get out of their houses and
mingle with other people.
 Ethical Dilemma Faced by Technological
Advancements

❑ Moral dilemma. People, especially the children

who are not capable yet of rationally deciding for
themselves what is right or wrong, are freely
exposed to different things on television, mobile
phones, laptops, or computers.
❑ This allows them to see, read, or hear things
which are not suitable for their very young age.
 Ethical Dilemma Faced by Technological
Advancements

This makes them very vulnerable to

character change and can greatly affect the
way they view the world and the things
around them.
 Ethical Dilemma Faced by Technological
Advancements

❑ It is for these reasons why there are people who

call for the establishment of ethics of technology.
❑ This will in one way or another guide people on
how technology ought to be used in order to
prevent abuse, misuse, and other unfortunate
results. virtue
RESPONSIBILITY
 Ethical Dilemma Faced by Technological
Advancements

❑ The word “RESPONSIBILITY” is the sense of being

accountable for and accountable to.
❑ It is also important for the people in the scientific
world to inform the masses of the dangers of their
contribution/s to the world of technology.
❑ People should be sufficiently aware of what to do
and what not to do. In addition, the agents using the
devices should also be accountable to and
accountable for their use of their gadgets.
Ethical Dilemma Faced by Technological
Advancements

The onward progress of

science and technology
should be a movement
towards the good life.
Technological Advancements

Filipinos and their use of gadgets and the Internet (Rappler,nd.):

• Mobile phone subscription is at 119 million.
• Filipinos spend approximately 3.2 hours on mobile and 5.2
hours on desktop daily.
• Currently, the Philippines has one of the highest digital
populations in the world.
• There are about 47 million active Facebook accounts in the
Philippines
• The Philippines is the fastest-growing application market in
Southeast Asia.
Materials Technology
The development of materials with
outstanding combinations of
mechanical, chemical, and electrical
properties that make other
advances possible.
Examples: Mosquito repellent clothing,
artificial skin grafts for burn victims,
advanced building materials such as
composite decking
Impacts of Materials Technology
POSITIVE IMPACTS NEGATIVE IMPACTS

NEW MATERIALS – NEW MATERIALS –

able to reuse recycled don’t know how the
materials to help the materials will behave
environment over long periods of
time.
Ethical Dilemma Faced by Technological Advancements

Not only that, it also causes them to become reclusive, alienating

themselves from other people. Although some would argue that
technology brings people together, it can also be argued that
this is not always the case in the real world because it may bring
them virtually closer but not physically or personally. In fact,
there are people who are friends, for example, only on social
media but not in real life. This just show that there are things that
technology claims to do but in reality, does not.
Ethical Dilemma Faced by Technological Advancements

Going back to the first dilemma, it can be said that the agents
using the devices are the ones to be blamed for the undesirable
consequences namely laziness and unhealthiness. However, it is
the assumption that the people in the scientific-technological
world have properly informed the public of the positive tenor of
their action in technology and the possible dangers of the misuse
of their technological contribution.
Thus, the undesirable consequences are brought about by
the misuse of the agent.
Ethical Dilemma Faced by Technological Advancements

Now, talking about alienation, it can be concluded

that the people in the scientific-technological world
are blameworthy because they tell the people
something that seems positive but when examined
closely, brings more bad than good.
Ethical Dilemma Faced by Technological Advancements

On the second dilemma, the people in the scientific world

nor the children are blameworthy because first, the
children are not yet capable of rationally deciding for
themselves what is good and what is bad. Second, even if
creators of these technologies went out of their way to
inform children of the pros and cons of these technological
contributions, it would still be useless because the children
have no capacity to understand them yet.
Ethical Dilemma Faced by Technological Advancements

So in this dilemma, the ones to be blamed are the

adults who allowed the children to have access to
such devices in the first place without any
SUPERVISION. It is the recklessness and
overconfidence of the adults that cause the
character change in children.