Student Name: __Nia Mills______________________

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? ____I think that people can survive
without out technology. I think the bigger question is do we want to. People dont
really need technology because the world has survived without it before but weve
just gotten so used to having it around that we act like we need it all the time.
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2. As technology advances, do people live longer or shorter lives? I think it helps

people live longer lives in a medical sense because the technology can be used to
help find cures and find better medicine.
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3. As technology advances, does technology become more or less complex? __As
technology advances it becomes more complex on how it works and operates but it
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becomes easier for us to use.

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4. As technology advances, do people become more or less specialized in the things
they do for a living? ___I think the advancement technology makes people become
more specialized in their jobs because if theyre in a technology field those jobs are
a lot more important and it takes a lot of skill set to be in one of those jobs.
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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)? _Yes, because its easier for computers
and machines to do some things so and they can sometimes work faster than
humans. _________________________________________________________________

7. As technology advances, do the things we make, become: more reliable?

Safer? More durable? Perform better? I think the more that technology
advances, the more precise things are done when using it but technology
makes mistakes all the time so its kind of hard to tell.
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7. As technology advances, does it require more or fewer science and math

applications? _I think it requires more science and math applications because you
have to be able to know how to work with the technology and how to operate it and
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it takes more knowledge to do that.

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