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1. TECHNOLOGY Definitions: Technology A: The correct use of tools. Technology B: Make life easier and/or fun. Technology C: Should improve out lives. Negative things about technology: 1. They can be addicting. 2. It wastes alot of power 3. Makes us lazy. 4. It wastes energy. 5. It can be dangerous 2. ERGONOMICS Definition: Designs or objects made to help a person in their job, sports, ETC., or anything to do with people. Things made ergonomically include: 1. Skateboard 2. Bike 3. Car 4. Ramp 5. The Track 6. Motor Bike 7. Helmet 8. Pads 9. The Seat 10. Seatbelt 11. Pedals 12. Gloves 3. SYSTEM definition: an organized way to achieve a goal. The four parts of a system are: 1.Input 2.Output 3.Process 4.Feedback 4.TRADEOFF ALL systems have a tradeoff. There is an intended outcome and an unintended outcome 5. DIFFEReNCE BETWEEN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Science: focuses on the natural world Technology: focuses on the correct use of tools 6. INVENTIONS AND INNOVATIONS Inventions: a NEW product Innovations: improving an EXISTING product. 7. THE FOUR Rs 1. Reduce 2. Reuse 3. Renew 4. Recycle 8. THE THREE AGES 1. Agricultural Age: up to the 1700s, people used things like a wooden plow. 2. Industrial Age: 1700s-1950s, people had to work in factories 3. Information Age: 1950s-Now, people used computers to share information faster. 9. CURRENT TECHNOLOGY 1. Digital Electronics: uses a binary code to program computers. 2. Allows a ton of information to be moved at one time. 10. RESOURCES 1. Natural: NOT man made 2. Synthetic: It IS man made.