ACMA01H3 Lecture 10: Lecture 10
9 Apr 2016
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Shift from oral culture to written culture. The application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes especially in industry: machinery and devices developed from scientific knowledge. The use of science in industry, engineering, etc. to invent useful things or to solve problems. Everything and anything humans have created can be considered technology. Recall: using innovation to create things and develop processes to solve problems in a practical way. That creates concrete and standardized linguistic and semiotic model. For transmitting information across space and time. Studies of tech explore the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society and the environment. Some critical to the shift to the technological age. Technologies often determine how social groups provide themselves with the material and structural objects of civilization. Technologies can shape worldwide views and event the most basic human exchanges. Writing is a technology that restructures thought. The way we use tech effects how we see the world.
