Student Name: Cameron Reynolds

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?

Since for years we relied on technology for many things like media, business, and
communications if we took that away now it will probably cause a riot so no people
cant live without technology even if they wanted to because the present people of
today was born around technology so its impossible to get rid of it.
2. As technology advances, do people live longer or shorter lives? shorter lives
because the more the technology advances the more a person might rely on that
technology and they will grow lazy from it doing all the work for him or her.

3. As technology advances, does technology become more or less complex? It

grows more complex the more we learn and invent the more ideas we have but
those ideas might take some time to create because they technology they try to
create will have to take a while to test and also the funding of it all.
4. As technology advances, do people become more or less specialized in the things
they do for a living? Less specialized because if the technology does our jobs we will

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just do nothing and rely on the machine to do then we will grow lazy and wont
know what to do with ourselves.

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)? If were talking about regular everyday tools then no
it wont it will become inefficient because technology will
become so advanced that it will probably take most of
everyday labor and people will start to grow lazy.
8. As technology advances, do the things we make, become:
more reliable? Safer? More durable? Perform better?
Depends on if the tools we make can improve the technology
we have right now then yes we will rely on the things we
make but if its just a regular tool then no it will not perform
better than advance technology can.

9.

As technology advances, does it require more or fewer

science and math applications? No because soon enough
it will know how to do all those things without having
anyone implement new programs into its data.

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