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Lesson 2: Technology As Way of Revealing

Technology has both improved and complicated the human condition over time. Early humans used basic tools and fire for survival, developed clothing, jewelry, and religion. As populations grew, humans' impact on the environment increased through overhunting and changing landscapes. This led to wars over resources and the development of trade between communities. Today, technology has increased lifespan, education, and GDP but has also reduced nature to its economic value and defined a "good life" as productivity. While technology provides comforts, it has not resolved humans' fundamental search for meaning.

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Lesson 2: Technology As Way of Revealing

Technology has both improved and complicated the human condition over time. Early humans used basic tools and fire for survival, developed clothing, jewelry, and religion. As populations grew, humans' impact on the environment increased through overhunting and changing landscapes. This led to wars over resources and the development of trade between communities. Today, technology has increased lifespan, education, and GDP but has also reduced nature to its economic value and defined a "good life" as productivity. While technology provides comforts, it has not resolved humans' fundamental search for meaning.

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LESSON 2: TECHNOLOGY

AS WAY OF REVEALING
HUMAN CONDITION BEFORE
COMMON ERA:
• Generation Gap- refers to changes brought by
technology through time.

Homo erectus
• Used fire to cook
• Using flint to produce fire
• Tools from stone (stone age)
HUMAN CONDITION BEFORE
COMMON ERA:
Homo sapiens
• Sharpen stones for knife/ forerunner of
the simple machine wedge.
• Proof of their culture: cave carvings
During Paleolithic Period
• “Venus” figure – carving of a voluptuous
woman out of ivory or stone.
• Infers that the humans of yesterday has a
certain fixation in human anatomy.
Discovery of Metals
• Humans began forging
metal works after
realizing that these
substance are more
durable and malleable.
Clothing
• Our ancestors realized that being naked
and vulnerable due to some lack of
protective covering makes them withstand
extreme weather condition.
Clothing

• Fur clothing and animal


skin for comfort against
harsh weather/ winds.

• They begin to cover


themselves out of
necessity and added
several jewelry on their
garments.
Concept of Beauty
• Using shiny stone or
perfectly shaped bone
for jewelry and sign of
victory from opponent
or to show their hunt.
Ceremonies/ Tradition/ Religion

• Excavations circa middle of


stone age includes several
figures thought to be
ceremonial
• Proves that people during
those times gives honor to
some deities.
Ceremonies/ Tradition/ Religion
• This notion is the resort to
make sense of events
happening outside their
control.
• Primitive gods includes
objects they encounter in
their everyday lives.
• Each tribes must have
been different gods based
on the place they live in
HUMAN CONDITION IN COMMON
ERA:

For a long time ago humans were content


with their relationship with nature.
Holocene/ sixth/ Anthropocene
extinction
• Occurred between 100,00 to 200,00 years
up to present
• On-going extinction of several species
from flora to fauna due to human act.
What makes this?

• The need to survive

• For development and


adaptability ex.
Building houses and
search for food.
What makes this?

• Growing population
results to finding
additional resources.
• Leads to overhunting,
overfishing that are
endemic to the area.
Growing population

• Hunting and changing


terrain caused several
species to lose
competition in territory
and food resources.
• Formation of communities
caused humans to expand
territories and more people
to feed.
Growing population

• Separate communities from the same ancestors


and residing in the same community paved way
for civilizations.
• In a constant need of resources, wars with other
tribes began.
Barter System

• Cross town leads to


cross- cultural
interaction as more
products were
exchanged.
• Initial needs extended
to wants.
Barter System

• Gains new objective: gather as much


products as possible.
• Wealth as one of their goals
• They began to haunt, farm, and produce
things with prospect of profit.
Barter System

• A nuclear community
which is self-sufficient
has to accommodate
their growing population
with depleting resources,
which makes them reliant
to other communities.
Comparison of following from then
and now:
• Mortality Rate
– Due to technology lesser women and children
die during birth assuring robust population and
strong workforce.
– Medical care for premature infants
– Proper maternal care
Comparison of following from then
and now:
• Average Lifespan
- People are less likely to die in treatable
diseases
- Science prolonged lives by discovering
treatment for diseases.
- Distribution of medicines became faster
Comparison of following from then
and now:
• Literacy Rate
- Access to education provided to more
individuals generally creates a more informed
public.
Comparison of following from then
and now:
• Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
- Determine the value of the country’s goods and
services produced within the territory given a
certain period of time.
- Higher country income is brought by
productivity, often an indicator of presence of
technology
THE ESSENCE OF TECHNOLOGY

• Modern Human are reliant on


technology in their search for
good life.
• Question: Was the history of
technology brought purposeful
choices for man in his search for
the ultimate good?
Martin Heidegger

• Identify that technology can either be


perceived as first; a mean to achieve
man’s end
• Second; constitutes human activity.
Martin Heidegger
• Second perspective
shows technology in such
a way each period reveals
a particular character
regarding man’s being.
• In effect, through
technology, a myriad of
questions begins to
mount.
Martin Heidegger
• Rather than thinking
that humans have a
clear idea of what to
expect in a good life,
it can be stated that
technology allows
humans to confront
the unknown and
see how they react.
Humans into the idea of growth/
Good Life

• People begin to view


the world as a field of
resources attributing
monetary value.
• Categorize nature into
as renewable and
nonrenewable.
Humans into the idea of growth/
Good Life
• Humans are reduced
into the amount of
productivity they are
able to render during
their lifetime.
• A good life is viewed as
a life which makes use
of our labor and which
we get compensated
fairly upon.
Humans into the idea of growth/
Good Life
• However, in the search for
good life it seems that it
leads people in wrong path
through our reliance with
technology purely.
• Humans lose track of things
that matters, reducing their
surroundings to their
economic value.
Backtracking Human Condition

• All in all human


condition
improved
through the level
of comfort,
various scientific
breakthroughs.
Backtracking Human Condition
• Different machineries aid in
prolonging lives, assisting
those with disabilities, honing
efficiency in industrial
workplaces, exploring the
universe for places we can
live once all the Earth’s
resources depleted.
The limit of technology
Some places in the world are still
battling for their daily survival;
• Diseases
• tribe wars
• lack of habitable territories, and
competitions on resources
• wage wars on the basis of races
• belief and abundance of resources
or territory
People who believe in either science
or technology has one goal:
• To discover and rediscover things that would give
meaning to their lives whether it be honor,
strength, or merit.
• People are still trying to make sense of their
existence in the world, and technology does little
to aid them in the pursuit of life’s meaning.

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