Science, Technology, and Society GUIDE QUESTIONS

UNIT 1
Chapter 1

1. Give three other major scientific and technological developments in the world (or in the Philippines) that created a
large impact on your daily life.

2. What historical antecedents gave rise to the inventions you mentioned in the first question?

3. How did the developments in science and technology shape human history?

Chapter 2

1. Why do you think were controversial? most intellectual ideas

2. Why did the people accept these new discoveries despite being contradictory to what was widely accepted at that
time?

3. How do intellectual revolutions transform societies?

4. Can you name other scientific revolutions that happened in the following places?

a. Meso-America

b. Asia

c. Middle East

d. Africa

Chapter 3

1. Trace the development of science and technology from the pre-colonial times up to the present. What have you
observed?

2. What do you think are the major contributions of science and technology to Philippine nation-building?

3. What specific government policy do you like the most in terms of contributing to the development of science and
technology in the Philippines?

4. What do you think are the major contributions of the Philippines to the field at present?

5. What policies do you want the government to implement in the near future?

UNIT 2
Chapter 4

1. How is technology a mode of revealing?

2. In your daily experience of technology, what else is revealed to you aside from its function?

3. Why should technology be questioned? 4. How is questioning the piety of thought?

5. How does art provide a way out of enframing?

Chapter 5

1. Why must we change our paradigm of growth and consumption to that of "de-development"?

2. Why are the terms de-development, de-growth, and zero growth seemingly unacceptable to the usual framework of
human progress?

3. How have we been enframed by the notion of growth?

4. How do we improve our lives and yet reduce consumption?

5. What are the similarities and differences between Heidegger's The Question Concerning Technology and Hickel's
article?