Importance of Science and Technology
Technology and science are important in our era as it gives us more knowledge of all existing things. Science deals with everything we see, do, or touch. It has the power to rule on things as it was the origin of everything. Technology, on the other hand, is an escape for us to make our lives easier than before, hence, that is one of the reasons why there is always innovation. It is therefore important to understand and be knowledgeable of its origin or history to be more familiar with how does it start. Studies of technology and science provide students with insight into how different processes of knowledge are initiated and progressed, and how innovative technological processes are developed, employed, and increase in importance.
Science and technology may be partly responsible for the events that we faced today. Both positive and negative effects are visible as science and technology grow and develop. The adversary implications may involve the advancement of weapons, bombs, biochemical and nuclear weapons, which brought us violence amongst ourselves and others. Another implication is human dependencies on technology, such as the internet, computers, cell phones that are not healthy anymore as it makes us all paralyze. The advancement of science and technology may cause pollution in our world. Science and technology also have positive effects that help us work more effectively and efficiently. To be more specific, those abovementioned adversary implications were positive if it was done in a moderate condition. All we need to do is to practice in moderation for us to find the success we were looking for as we use and apply these advancements in our lives.
"Necessity is the mother of all invention" a well-known saying that answers the question on what pushes people to create inventions. Sometimes, people invent things due to the demand of consumers as they thought that there are still ways to turn things simple because society has difficult problems that need solving. A lot of people may agree on this part but actually, it was the reverse scenario because inventions succeed when they do useful jobs that people recognize or notice. And the reasons inventions appear in the first place are not because of just plain "necessity," especially today when we were all satisfied by any number of existing gadgets and machines. The reason why inventions appear is because of scientific breakthroughs. Generally, people who invent are more interested in creating, improving, and advancing human knowledge than in commercializing their discoveries.
Pre-historic period
The pre-historic period is the start where they discover that the sun can be a source of energy, and so as fire as t releases heat energy. The first tools from stone, wood, antlers, and bones were also developed, and the earliest boats were constructed.
Ancient period
Iron and steel, glass, tools and machines, wheels and axle, digital pens, typewriters, paper, copper alloys, metals, elevators, electricity, hot air balloons, airplanes, Fresnel lenses, compasses, clockwork, turbines, the steam engine, and concrete were discovered and developed during the ancient period.
Middle Ages
The middle ages technologies developed were Wind turbines, bullets, fireworks, space rockets, clockworks cams and cranks, robots, lenses, toilets, space rockets, printing, and parachutes.
16th century
During the 16th century, some scientists help in developing different technologies. Gerardus Mercator helps to revolutionize navigation with better mapmaking, Dutch spectacle maker named Zacharias Janssen makes the first compound microscope, and Sir John Harington describes one of the first modern flush toilets.
17th century
The 17th century is the start to develop things that need a great help from science. In this century, thermometer, magnetism, space telescopes, microscopes, barometer, pendulum clocks, motion, and pianos were discovered and developed.
18th century
In the 18th century, tractors began to establish their name on the farming industry. Scientists discovered how does computer work. Steam engines, car engines, metals, satellite navigation, quartz clock and watches, zeolites, speech synthesizers, bridges, pyrometers, hot-air balloons, and titanium were discovered and developed.
19th century
In the 19th century, electricity batteries together with electrolyzers, space rockets, xenon lamps, steam engines, Stirling engine, electricity generators, digital cameras, telephones, propellers, fax machine, pasteurization, radio, fire extinguisher, elevators, reinforced concrete, typewriters, wind tunnels, cd and mp3 players, flares, incandescent lamp, and piezoelectricity were discovered, studied and developed.
2oth century
The 20th century was the start of science and technology to innovate things to its proper use. Vacuum cleaners, airplanes, chainsaws, air conditioners, robots, refrigerators, Kevlar, lasers, microwave ovens, cellphones, quantum computers, internet world wide web, and wireless internet were developed and still useful even up to the present time.
21st century
The 21st century is the time where a lot of innovation in science and technology developed. Apple revolutionizes music listening by unveiling its iPod MP3 music player, Richard Palmer develops energy-absorbing D3O plastic, the Wikipedia online encyclopedia is founded by Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales, Bram Cohen develop BitTorrent file-sharing, Scott White, Nancy Sottos, and colleagues develop self-healing materials, iRobot Corporation releases the first version of its Roomba® vacuum cleaning robot, electronic voting plays a major part in a controversial US Presidential Electio, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov discover grapheme, a pioneering low-cost laptop for developing countries called OLPC is announced by MIT computing pioneer Nicholas Negroponte, Amazon.com launches its Kindle electronic book (e-book) reader, Apple introduces a touchscreen cellphone called the iPhone, Apple releases its touchscreen tablet computer, the iPad, 3D TV starts to become more widely available, Elon Musk announces "hyperloop"—a giant, pneumatic tube transport system, Supercomputers (the world's fastest computers) are now a mere 30 times less powerful than human brains, Three nanotechnologists win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for building miniature machines out of molecules, Google claims to have achieved "quantum supremacy"—with a quantum computer that calculates faster than a conventional one.
