Technology as a way of Revealing

LESSON
2

Engr. Emmanuel Camba

Comparison

• Comparing the lives of the people before and now will make anyone
realize the changes that happened in society not just in terms of culture,
language or rights but more importantly changes in people's way of life
due to the existence and technology.
 You need to know

The term “generation gap” is attributed mainly to the changes brought about by
technology and to those people who belong to the older generations who think that these
technologies are too complicated to operate. On the other hand, it is a challenge for the
people who belong in the field of science and technology to make these technological
advancements more accessible and less confusing for people who are as young anymore.
Fascination led to numerous magnificent inventions that people in the present are able to
enjoy and benefit from.
Through science and technology, people yet experience what it really means to live
because it helps people in more ways than one. People who live in the past and people who
live in the present all have different views of what it means to flourish, primarily due to the
kind of environment and the period one is in. While the environment needs to be assessed
in order to know the possibility of human flourishing and to what extent it is possible.
The Human Condition Before Common Era
• Our early ancestor’s primary need to survive five away for the
inventions of several developments. Gifted with brains more advanced
than other creators. It is difficult to pinpoint the particular. Where
technology is said to have started. Things become easier since humans
are Humo errectus; using fire to cook by chipping one flint over the other
food to produce a spark which the law of friction and heat is performed.
Tools from stone and flints marked the era of the Stone Age, during the
advent of our very own Homosapiens.

Stone Age tools and equipment

Cave painting

• There Is little to no written accounts Except for several hey drawings and
unearthed artifacts from various parts of the world how their culture
come to be. There several excavations in different parts of Europe of
miniature statues prevalent during the Paleolithic period, the so-called
Venus figure

Venus of Willem Dorf

Paleolithic Period

• Soon enough people discovered minerals you can forgiving metal rock
because they reliable that these substances are more durable and
valuable and have more master than the previous metal
• Shared the same concerns and interest

Paleolithic Period
 Meaning of Life

• They have also different god’s which they

interpret that it gives their primary needs. Today’s
live along side majestic creature such as elephants
and mammoths might have been awed by their size
and worship them as the owner of the land, asking
for blessings in their haunting ground. To those
who near the coastal areas are bodies of water
might have water gods they referred to when
asking for a good catch.
PERSPECTIVE
They realized that there are events
outside of their control and attempted to
justify things as being work of a
supernatural being. The people of the
yesterday afraid to have acknowledged early
on that they called only do and I understand
as much, that perhaps other powers at play
also extent along side them.
The Human Condition in the Common Era

• For a long time ago, humans were content with their relationship with nature. Elias’s case of man-
made extension occurred over 12,000 years ago possibly brought upon by hunting and disputes. The
Holocene extinction or sixth extinction or Anthropocene occurred from early between 100,000 to
200,000 years up to the present and pertains to down going extinction of several species both flora and
fauna due to human activity.
• Flora and fauna refer to plants and animals in the broadest sense of the words, encompassing pretty much
all life on Earth.
GROWING POPULATION
• Formation of communities caused humans to expand more in the territory.
• They must be self-sufficient and they realized that they could get hold of things not present in their
towns by offering something of the same value.
• They merge afraid crosstown then eventually cross-cultural interaction.
• They have turned to health as one of their goals as humans and ultimately as civilization.
• A nuclear community that is initially self-sufficient has to accommodate its growing population with
deflecting resources leading them to be reliant 2 other communities’ prudence which keeps them
surviving.
TECHNOLOGY

• Technology has been instrumental in all of this because searching for the good
life, people were able to come up with creations that would make life easier, more
comfortable and more enriching. Position-wise, the humans of today are much
better compared to human several centuries ago. Advancement in medicine,
technology, health and education.
• To better understand the development of technology let’s refresh to our mind the
three civilization we talked.
The following are the notable comparisons then and now

1. Mortality Rate
Due to technology, lesser women and children die during birth, assuring a robust population and
strong workforce, Medical care for premature infants allows them to survive and develop normally, while
proper maternal care ensures that mothers can fully recover and remain empowered.
2. Average Lifespan
Aside from the reason that people engage less in combat and are less likely to die in treatable
diseases now as possible to then, science is able to prolong lives by enhancing living status and
discovering different remedies to most diseases. Distribution of medicine is also made easier and faster.
3. Literary Rate
Access to education provided to more individuals generally creates a more informed public that
could determine a more just society.
4. Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
It is often used to determine the value of the country’s goods and services, produce within the
territory given a certain time period. Higher country income is brought upon by high productivity, often
an indicator of the presence of technology.
The Essence of Technology

• Humanity has ended a long way

from our primitive ways, and as a
general rate, it is said that we are
more “developed” than we were
before. More than humans are
reliant on technology in their
search for the good life.
Martin Heidegger argued that the purpose and
essence of technology is different from each
other. He point out that technology can either
be a means to achieve man’s end or technology
in such a way that each period reveals a
particular character regarding man’s being.
Backtracking the Human Condition
• Technology’s initial promises prove to be true regardless of its ramifications. All in
all the human condition improved, only by ensuring the level of comfort, various
scientific breakthroughs, and improving the lifestyle of those who had the luxury to
afford to do so. Different types of machinery aid in prolonging lives-assisting those
with disabilities, honing efficiency in the industrial workplace and even exploring
the universe for the place you can try once all the earth’s resources are depleted.