STAS 325 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Jane Goodall, Termite, Techne
17 Jul 2015
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Technology can be defined in terms of evolution . A modified idea of benjamin franklin states that intelligent apes and humans can be regarded as toolmakers while the rest of the animal population is not considered capable of doing so. Chimpanzee design a twig into a certain shape in order to pull out termites from a termite hill and ate them. Ants and bees build intricate structures with strategical division of work amongst them. They have their own methods of storing food for later use. Humanity can be said to have evolved and fashioned itself by invention and modification in its use of tools. Nye argues that tools did not come into existence because they were needed. Often existing tools became a source of curiosity for humans and they worked to innovate it so that, as nye puts it, they exist before the problem to be solved. Hence, technology can be said to be inseparable from human evolution.
