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Explain that decisions about the use of technology involve trade-offs between positive and negative effects.

Cite instances where ethical considerations have impacted the development, selection, and use of technologies.

Justify the contention that individual citizens have to make informed decisions about the development and use of technology Explain that humans devise technologies to reduce the negative consequences of other technologies.

Analyze the relationship between technological processes and natural processes.

Identify and describe instances where societal opinions and demands or corporate interests have influenced the decision to develop a technology.

Explain that a number of different factors, such as advertising, the strength of the economy, the goals of the company, and the latest fads contribute to shaping the design of and demand for various technologies.

Explain that new technologies create new processes.

Analyze how different cultures develop their own technologies to satisfy their individual and shared needs, wants, and values.

Defend and rationalize the development and use of a proposed technology.

Knowledge of the history of technology helps people understand the world around them by seeing how people of all times and places have increased their capability by using their unique skills to innovate, improvise and invent.

Resources Decisions about the use of technology involve trade-offs between positive and negative effects.

Ethical considerations have impacted the development, selection, and use of technologies.

•Ford had a design which would decrease the possibility of the Ford Pinto from exploding in fire when hit from behind. •The cost would have been $11 per car to fix the problem. •Ford determined it would cost $137 million to fix the problem, compared to $49.5 million in law suits due to deaths, injuries, and car damages. •Ford felt justified not implementing the design change. •180 people died in fiery crashes.

What were the impacts on the people that first used Nuclear Power?

Economic Social Nuclear Power Bikini Atoll Nuclear test Cultural Political

• In small groups, develop a chart listing the impacts of a technological advancement on modern life.

• Include: – Social, Cultural, Economic and Political impacts – Trade-offs

1. Electrification 2. Automobile 3. Airplane 4. Water Supply and Distribution 5. Electronics 6. Radio and Television 7. Agricultural Mechanization 8. Computers 9. Telephone 10.Spacecraft

11.Highways

12.Internet

13.3D Imaging (CAT Scans) 14.Household Appliances

• Individual citizens have to make informed decisions about the development and use of technology • The value of a technology will differ from time to time and people to people.

– The slide rule was once an important tool used to help solve complex mathematical problems.

•A number of different factors: •such as advertising •the strength of the economy •the goals of the company •the latest fads •demand for various technologies