IEN 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Design Patent, Reverse Engineering, Inventive Step And Non-Obviousness
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Technology is the modification of the natural environment. With no technology, the buildings are gone, along with everything artificial (phone lines, computers, cable, etc. ). The food is also gone and all water except the puddles still standing. The air is noticeably fresher without the gasoline and diesel. The grass as natural as it seems, has been grown from seed or sod produced on grass farms, so this is also gone. The weeds remain, but most of the trees, bushes, and flowers that were raised in nurseries and transplanted are gone. Dogs and cats are gone, bred over a millennia for specialized traits also the rats and other animals are gone. Shoes and clothing are gone, all the drugs, anything artificial. Sanitary measures made the difference in life expectancy matter. In fact, if it were not for medical technology, many people would also be gone and the remaining few would not survive without human innovation,