ih Flashcards
System of knowledge of the natural world gained through the scientific method.
SCIENCE
Comes from Greek words tekhne meaning “art or craft” and logia meaning a ‘subject or
interest”
TECHNOLOGY
an organized group of people associated as members of a community
SOCIETY
which involves transforming research findings into prototype inventions of new
materials, devices and processes
DEVELOPMENT
which involves commercialization of prototype inventions of Research and
Development into marketable products or processes.
INNOVATION
a process of acquiring new knowledge.
RESEARCH
people in general thought of as living together in organized communities with shared laws,
traditions and values.
SOCIETY
these are devices, medicines, procedures and systems designed to preserve,
repair, maintain, reproduce and improve living systems
LIFE TECHNOLOGY
based on machines that collect, store, process, retrieve, transmit and
utilize data or information.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
comprising the industrial technologies which were developed since
the time of industrial revolution until the end of World War II. These are usually capital-
intensive technologies and are essentially based on the classical principles of classical physics,
chemistry and biology.
SECOND-WAVE TECHNOLOGY
the most primitive of all societies
HUNTER AND GATHERER SOCIETIES
a set of word pictures depicted in symbols made of triangular marks.
CUNEIFORM
the oldest surviving law in the world. It is the earliest existing legal text
Fabrication of copper
CODE OF UR-NAMU
ancient region bordering the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
BABYLONIA
ordered the construction of the famous “Hanging Gardens of Babylon”
and the Isthar Gate
NEBUCHADNEZZAR
