Student Name: ___Justin Melton and Tramel robinsion

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Unit 1: Technological Inventions and Innovations

Lesson 1: Inventions and Innovations: An Evolutionary

Process
File 1.1.1: Enduring Ideas of Technology

Complete each question using your background knowledge. There is no right or

wrong response. You will be asked to share your responses with the class.

1. Can people survive without technology? ____No because without Technology we

wont have the resources we have now to help people survive . Also meaning we
wont have refrigerators or anything that deals with an Outlet.
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2. As technology advances, do people live longer or shorter lives? Longer because

they are starting to make more stuff that can help us in the future so the only thing
that will happen is that our life will live longer. Unless they make things that can
affect us and our community.
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3. As technology advances, does technology become more or less complex? Yes

because it will make more things complicated because we have to learn more
things. The technology they are making are going to be exotic.
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4. As technology advances, do people become more or less specialized in the things
they do for a living? More specialized because we have to learn the new technology
they are inventing and it might be complicated for some people or most of the
people
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7. As technology advances, do the tools and processes we use to make, build,

and do things become more efficient (become faster and require less
material, energy and fewer people)? Yes because its basically an upgrade so
it can be better than what we have made in the
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7. As technology advances, do the things we make, become: more reliable?

Safer? More durable? Perform better? I think we are going to make things
more reliable and safer because its improved and better technology that we
are about to use!
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7. As technology advances, does it require more or fewer science and math

applications? I think it requires more science because is going to be better and
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more improved so it might take more smart Science people to understand the new
technology that is we are about to use this upcoming future. Yes more math
applications because its going to take way more math then the other technology
we had!
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Technology, Third Edition/
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