The Nature of Technology
Everyone recognizes that such things as computers, aircraft, and genetically engineered plants are examples of technology, but for most people, the understanding of technology goes no deeper.
Benchmark 1-C
Things that are found in nature differ from things that are human-made in how they are produced and used.
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Creative thinking and economic and cultural influences shape technological development.
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New products and systems can be developed to solve problems or to help do things that could not be done without the help of technology.
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The development of technology is a human activity and is the result of individual and collective needs and the ability to be creative.
Benchmark 1-I
Corporations can often create demand for a product by bringing it onto the market and advertising it.
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The nature and development of technological knowledge and processes are functions of the setting.
Benchmark 1-M
Most development of technologies these days is driven by the profit motive and the market.
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Resources are the things needed to get a job done, such as tools and machines, materials, information, energy, people, capital, and time.