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
SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY
IN THE ANCIENT
PERIODS
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
LEARNING OUTCOMES
DISCUSS THE
INTERACTIONS
BETWEEN
S&T & SOCIETY
THROUGHOUT
HISTORY
;
ARTICULATE
WAYS BY WHICH
SOCIETY IS
TRANSFORMED
BY SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY;
AND
IDENTIFY THE
PARADIGM SHIFTS
IN HISTORY
A Glimpse of the History of Science
and Technology
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Ancient World
Classical Antiquity
Modern Age
ANCIENT WORLD
HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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
complicated mechanical machines
Today, the human mind is pictured as
a complicated computer
Thomas Alva Edison, Alexander
Graham Bell, and Henry Ford
Screw and bolt in the Industrial era
Majority of labor force was into
manufacturing of goods
Steven Jobs and William Gates
Microchip (inventors were awarded a
Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000)
Majority are engage in supply of
services
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“in form” – what we are
“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