HISTORICAL ANTECEDENTS OF SCIENCE

AND TECHNOLOGY (Week 3-4 Part 1)

Science, Technology and Society, 2nd Semester SY 2023-2024
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TOPICS: HISTORICAL ANTECEDENTS OF

PERIODSAND TECHNOLOGY IN THE ANCIENT

SCIENCE
A. World
❑ Ancient Age​
❑ Middle Age​
❑ Modern Age (Information Age​)
B. Intellectual Revolutions
❑ Copernican​
❑ Darwinian​
❑ Freudian
❑ Scientific Method and Its Application to Research​
❑ Other Revolutions​
C. History of Science and Technology in the Philippines
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DISCUSS THE
;
INTERACTIONS IDENTIFY THE
BETWEEN ARTICULATE PARADIGM SHIFTS
WAYS BY WHICH
S&T & SOCIETY IN HISTORY
SOCIETY IS
THROUGHOUT
TRANSFORMED
HISTORY BY SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY;
AND
 A Glimpse of the History of Science
and Technology
• Ancient World
• Classical Antiquity
• Modern Age
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S&T in the ancient age
Stone tools have been the first
recognized technology (or craft?)

-Made by one of our direct ancestors (H. habilis or H.

rudolfensis) 25,000,000 years ago

Bunch, B and Hellemans, A. The History of Science and Technology. Houghton Mifflin Company. New York, USA.
2004.
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The Information Age
(1973 through present)
 The Information Age
(Digital Age)
When was the last
time you used
something digital?
Bunch, B and Hellemans, A. The History of Science and Technology. Houghton Mifflin Company. New York, USA.
2004.
The Information Age (1973-2003)

❖ The focus of S&T and society became

“information” itself (handling and
conveying it)
❖ Progress in electronics and
computers caused information to be
one of the most important
commodities
❖ Advances in biology
✔ Genetics – revolution in information
science (recombinant DNA)
✔ The immune system – also an
 Information &
society
BEFORE NOW
During Galileo’s and Newton’s
time, people were viewed as Today, the human mind is pictured as
complicated mechanical machines a complicated computer

Thomas Alva Edison, Alexander Steven Jobs and William Gates

Graham Bell, and Henry Ford

Screw and bolt in the Industrial era Microchip (inventors were awarded a
Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000)

Majority of labor force was into

manufacturing of goods Majority are engage in supply of
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“What makes a tree a tree? And not
cement?”
✔ For 2000 years,
explanation/answers
were based on the head (natural
philosophy/reason)
✔ Oral tradition – fascination with
sounds and words
✔ Print and written culture – printing
press
✔ DARPA (Defense Advanced Research
projects Agency) during WW2
“If war is in space, what if satellites are
down?”

✔ Developed ground-based
communication, giving rise to
Internet
✔Alan Turing broke the
Nazi code
✔Developed the concept of
computers
Artificial intelligence

▪ use of machines to imitate the way humans think and

behave
▪ replicate in a computer the actions and functions of
biological neurons found in the human body
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWmX3pd1f10
Artificial Intelligence In 5 Minutes | What Is Artificial Intelligence? | AI Explained | Simplilearn – YouTube