Module 2: Waves of Technology Flashcards
The common term for describing the wide-scale dispersal of the new automation, mechanics, or Applied Science.
Wave of Technology
Before agriculture, mankind obtained food for survival through hunting for animals, fishing, or gathering. Hunters and gatherers lived in small groups.
Pre-Agriculture
Men usually hunt for food while women collect berries, nuts, and roots. Groups traveled frequently following the migration of animals, and frequently establish new homes or bases.
Pre-Agriculture
The agricultural revolution started when mankind stopped moving around began building permanent structures, houses, barns, etc. As a result, tribes, that had been primarily nomadic in nature, started becoming more and more sedentary.
The First Wave: Agricultural Revolution
Instead of following herds’ migration patterns, mankind domesticated animals for their purpose. Man discovered irrigation techniques, selective breeding, and proved that agriculture is more productive than hunting.
The First Wave: Agricultural Revolution
The new knowledge, techniques, and practices of agriculture provided them with larger and steadier supplies of food. An increase in agricultural production means wealth to the landlords. Wealth became synonymous with power, hence the feudal system of the society.
The First Wave: Agricultural Revolution
It started when mankind started using machines to do their work. From hand production methods to machines, new chemical manufacturing, and iron production processes, the increasing use of steam power and waterpower, the development of machine tools, and the rise of the mechanized factory system.
The Second Wave: Industrial Revolution
It also led to an unprecedented rise in the rate of population growth.
The Second Wave: Industrial Revolution
Identify the surge of Industrial Revolution:
Happened when man started to mass-produce using machines.
First Surge of Industrial Revolution
Identify the surge of Industrial Revolution:
When men invented the steam engine whereby hasten the mass-production, improved the mode of transportation of people and farm-produce,
Second Surge of Industrial Revolution
Identify the surge of industrial revolution:
When electricity was discovered that dramatically “light up” the world.
Third Surge of Industrial Revolution
It is also known as the Computer Age because it primarily began when the Computer was invented.
The Third Wave: The Age of Information
Identify the surge of Age of Information:
May be the development of computers which can store digital information whereby saving time and office space.
First Surge of Age of Information
Identify the surge of Age of Information:
The invention of transistors changes the way mankind gets information.
Second Surge of Age of Information
Identify the surge of Age of Information:
The development of the Internet where access to information became quicker and easier. Travel and manufacturing change with the computerization of the production line. Telecommunication improved production, and knowledge sharing.
Third Surge of Age of Information
