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4: TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE Flashcards

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the set of knowledge, skills, experience and techniques through which humans change, transform and use our environment in order to create tools, machines,
products, and services that meet our needs and desires.

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Technology

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It offers the capacity of storing messages temporarily to reduce network congestion

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Circuit Switching

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Packets can be routed around network congestion. Packet switching makes efficient use of network bandwidth

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Packet Switching

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independently sent and can take different paths throughout the network

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Datagram Packets

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uses a logical connection between the source and the destination device

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Virtual Circuit

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It offers a dedicated transmission channel that is reserved until its disconnected

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Circuit Switching

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Dedicated channels can cause delays because a channel is unavailable until one side disconnects. It uses a dedicated physical link between the sending and receiving devices.

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Circuit Switching

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Packets can get lost while taking alternative routes to the destination. Messages are divided into packets that contain source and destination information

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Packet Switching

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computer that holds the user accounts, computer accounts, organizational units, and application services.

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Active Directory Domain Service (AD DS)

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machine that helps the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server is a server that configures IPv4 and IPv6 addresses specifically in giving names to each IP address up to its root recognition.

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Domain Name System (DNS)

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machine that holds and manages documents

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File server

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machine that holds user mail services, and web services

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Web Server II

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device that connects printers to client computers through the internet and accepts print jobs from the computers, queues these jobs, and sends them to the appropriate printers.

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Print Server

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hardware device designed to receive, analyze, and send incoming packets to another network. It can be compare to a simple mailbox placed at the corner of a street and which represents your single point of entry to the worldwide network.

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Router

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Its main job is to move, transfer, or assign a computerized information from one place to another.

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Internet

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concerns itself with understanding how knowledge is creatively applied to organized tasks involving people and machines that meet sustainable goals.

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Technology

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Aspects of Technology

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  • Technology is about taking action to meet a human need
  • It uses facts, practical craft knowledge rather than theoretical knowledge
  • It involves organized ways of doing things
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an increase in the efficiency of a product or process that results in an increase in output without an increase in input.

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Technological Change

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a term used to describe incremental change in the quality and quantity of knowledge and ideas that are applied in the stream of activities to enhance the social and economic well being of the society.

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Technological Change

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Stages of Technological Change

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Invention, Innovation, Diffusion

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encompassing the generation of new ideas. forming a new thought having a potential to apply in economy.

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Invention

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assumed that the frequency of inventions was determined by the scientific knowledge and the invention is dispersed in almost accidental way in time

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Invention

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encompassing the development of new ideas into marketable products and processes. Innovations is the first commercial application stage of invention.

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Innovation

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determined by the technologic and economic conditions, in which the firm (making innovation) is. Innovations may be intensified in certain periods and sectors, because in order for a radical innovation to be able to use its all technological potential, many complementary (small) innovations are needed.

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Innovation

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applicable in industry and this can realize after a long time from the invention.

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Innovation

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products and processes spread across the potential market. provides economic growth and increase in employment

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Diffusion

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Major impacts of technological change

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  • Creates new products and processes
  • Increases efficiency, lower cost
  • Helps economies evolve
  • Decreases self-reliance
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used to indicate the changes that take place in human interactions and interrelations. It also means a change in the system of social relationships.

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Impact to Society / Social Change

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essential ingredients of modern life. They transcend local boundaries and touches the lives of everyone.

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Science and Technology

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Invention that changed the face of humankind.

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Fire and wheel

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product of civilization.

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Technology

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contributed to the growth of industries or to the process of industrialization.

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Technology

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a term covering in general terms the growth in a society mainly agrarian of modern industry with all its circumstances and problems, economic and social.

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Industrialization

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which a significant role is played by the manufacturing industry.

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growth of a society

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associated with the factory system of production.

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Industrialization

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It has contributed to the growth of cities or the process of urbanization.

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Technology and Industrialization

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the growth of industries has contributed to

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growth of cities

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denotes a diffusion of the influence of urban centers on a rural hinterland.

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Urbanization

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can be described as a process of becoming urban moving to citieschanging from agriculture to other pursuits typical to cities and the corresponding change of behavior patterns.

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Urbanization

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result of industrialization

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people have started moving towards the industrial areas in search of employment.

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the industrial sectors developed into towns and cities.

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Technology and Urbanization

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process that indicates the adoption of modern ways of life and values.

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Modernization

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It refers to an attempt on the part of the people, particularly those who are custom-bound to adapt themselves to the present time, conditions, needs, styles, and ways in general.

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Technology and Modernization

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It indicates a change in people’s food habits, dress habits, speaking styles, tastes, choices, preferences, ideas, values, recreational activities, and so on.

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Technology and Modernization

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getting modernized give more importance to

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science and technology.

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these modernized societies in various countries.

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scientific and technological inventions

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development of transport and communication has led to

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national and international trade on a large scale.

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contribution of oad transport, the train service, the ships, and airplanes

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eased the movement of men and material goods.

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it is for communication purposes have further added to these developments. They have helped the people belonging to different corners of the nation or the world to have regular contacts.

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The space research and the launching of the satellites

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turned the agricultural economy into an industrial economy.

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The introduction of the factory system of production

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divided the social organization into two predominant classes-the capitalist class and the working class.

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The industrial or the capitalist economy

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two classes are always at conflict due to

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mutually opposite interests.

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effect of rapid technological advancement.

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unemployment

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not only provide employment opportunities for men, but they also take away the jobs of men through labor-saving devices.

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Machines

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dangerous effect of technology is evident through

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new mode of warfare.

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it has brought fears and anxieties to humankind

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weaponry

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it can quickly destroy the entire human race to reveal how technology could be misused.

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weaponry

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more significant the technological advancement

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more risk for humanity

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Positive effect of technology on society

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Predicting air quality in cities within minutes
Technology and the sea
Open data for smart cities
Smart cars and machine learning
Travels with A.I.

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