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1. Technology Definitions
1 Becoming lazy 2 Getting addicted 3 Viruses 4 If it doesn't work or if it becomes bad technology 5 It could freeze
 * Technology: The correct use of tools. **
 * Technology should make life easier and/or help us have fun. **
 * Technology should improve our lives. **
 * Does the technology always make our life easier/or fun? **

2. Ergonomics

 * Designing objects that help people with their jobs, environment, sports, safety, or anything that involves people. **

3. System
1 Input 2 Output 3 Process 4 Feedback
 * A system is an organized way to achieve a goal. **
 * A system includes four parts: **

4. Trade-off

 * All systems have trade-offs **
 * Intended outcomes **
 * Unintended outcomes **

5. The difference between science and technology

 * Science focuses on the natural world. **
 * Technology: focuses on the correct use of tools, making life easier, and more fun. **

6. Technology also includes inventions and innovations

 * Invention: a new product. **
 * Innovation: Improving an existing product. **

7. Technology should use resources efficiently
Reduce Reuse Renew Recycle
 * The four R's **

8. The history of technology
1 Made the sharing of information faster and more organized. 2 Sharing information has made inventions and innovations happen faster.
 * Agricultural Age: Up to the 1700s- people used wooden plows. **
 * Industrial Age: 1700s to 1950s- people had factories and steam engines. **
 * Information Age: 1950 to now- people using computers. **

9. Current Technologies
1 Uses a binary code- 0 and 1 to program computers. 2 Allows us to move a ton of information at one time.
 * Digital Electronics **

10. Resources we use in Technology

 * Natural Resources: Non man made. **
 * Synthetic Resources: Man made materials. **