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9 Technology and Human Values

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Lesson 4

Science, Technology and


Human Values
Objectives:
At the end of this lesson, you should be able to
1. Learn the technological, agricultural and industrial
revolutions in the society;
2. Define Luddism;
3. Discuss Scientism, religion and changes in social
values.
Age of Enlightenment
Intellectual Revolution
Scientific Revolution

Modern Technological Innovations


PERIOD Agricultural Revolution
Industrial Revolution

20th century
Digital Revolution
3
TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION
a period in which one or more technologies is replaced by
another technology in a short span of time

dramatic social change in important structures brought about


by the introduction of new technology

transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation


HISTORY of technology

First Tools & Fire Agriculture Industry

5
HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY

First tools

Fire
HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY

Agriculture

Industry
AGRICULTURAL
REVOLUTION
a period of technological improvement and
increased crop productivity that occurred
during the 18th and early 19th centuries in
Europe
MAJOR EVENTS
Crop rotation –practice of growing a
series of dissimilar or different types of
crops in the same area in sequenced seasons
MAJOR EVENTS
Selective Breeding
-artificial selection
-a process used by humans to develop new organisms with
desirable characteristics
-mating together two animals with particularly desirable
characteristics

◦ Inbreeding
-process of mating genetically similar organisms
Thomas Coke Robert Bakewell
• introduced selective breeding as a scientific practice
• used inbreeding to stabilize certain qualities in order to reduce
genetic diversity
IN BREEDING
• first to breed cattle to be used primarily for beef

Robert Bakewell

 Leicestershire longhorn   Leicester sheep


cattle
MAJOR EVENTS
Mechanization
-New tools were invented and old ones perfected to
improve the efficiency of various agricultural
operations
Plough by James Small

• Horse-drawn seed drill


by Jethro Tull
Threshing machine or Thresher
- Andrew Meikle
MAJOR EVENTS
The Enclosure Act
-A series of United Kingdom Acts of Parliament
which enclosed open fields and common land in the
country, creating legal property rights to land that was
previously considered common
Enclosure—ended traditional rights on
common land formerly held in the open field
system and restricted the use of land to the
owner

A key factor behind the labor migration from


rural areas to gradually industrializing cities
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
period from the 18th to 19th century where major
changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining,
transport and technology had a profound effect on
the socioeconomic and cultural condition
MAJOR EVENTS
Steam Engine – James
Watt

• Spinning Jenny –
James Hargreaves
MAJOR EVENTS
Locomotive– “Rocket”
George Stephenson

• Steamboat – “Clermont”
Robert Fulton
RAILWAY AGE
Steam engines on wheel- railroad locomotive drove English
Industry after 1820
Steam- driven locomotives
◦ In 1804, an English engineer named Richard Travithick won a bet
by hauling 10 tons of iron over 10 miles of track in a steam-driven
locomotive.
◦ George Stephenson- built 20 engines for mine operators in
northern England

◦ Liverpool- Machester Railroad


From 1822-1825, Stephenson built the first railway in the world
that carried both cargo and passenger.
Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1825
Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830
LUDDITE
term used to describe people who dislike
new technology
British weavers and textile workers who
objected to the increased use of
mechanized looms and knitting frames
(1811-1816)
began breaking into factories and
smashing textile machines.
Ned Ludd- a young apprentice who was
rumored to have wrecked a textile apparatus in
1779
Neo-Luddism- groups who resist modern
technologies and dictate a return of some or all
technologies to a more primitive level
TECHNOLOGY AND
ITS IMPACT ON SOCIETY
TECHNOLOGY AND
ITS IMPACT ON SOCIETY
DO SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
LEAD TO A FALL IN HUMAN
VALUES?
But at what cost?
Gilbert Keith
Chesterton
(1874-1936)
Eric Arthur Blair
a.k.a
George Orwell
(1903-1950)
Clive Staples
Lewis
(1898–1963)
 view that only scientific claims are
meaningful
 excessive belief in the power of
scientific knowledge and techniques

Scientism
“Efforts to extend scientific ideas, methods, practices,
and attitudes to matters of human social and political
concern.” -- Richard G. Olson

“It is a matter of putting too high a value on natural


science in comparison with other branches of
learning or culture.” -- Tom Sorell
Scientism
10 Things You
James Porter Should Know
Moreland about Scientism

https://www.crossway.org/articles/10-things-yo
u-should-know-about-scientism/
1. Scientism is a philosophical thesis that
10 Things comes in two forms.
You 2. Strong scientism is self-refuting.
Should 3. Weak scientism is a foe and not a friend
of science.
Know
4. Scientism leads to secularism and
about marginalizes Christianity and ethics.
Scientism 5. Scientism is causing people to abandon
Christianity.
https://www.crossway.org/articles/10-things-yo
u-should-know-about-scientism/
6. Contrary to scientism, there are things
10 Things we know with greater certainty in
You theology or ethics than certain claims in
science.
Should
7. There are things science cannot explain
Know but theism can.
about The existence of moral, rational, and
Scientism aesthetic objective laws and intrinsically
valuable properties.

https://www.crossway.org/articles/10-things-yo
u-should-know-about-scientism/
10 Things 8. Scientism gains strength from
methodological naturalism.
You 9. Knowledge—not faith or mere belief—
Should gives people authority to speak and act
Know in public.
about 10.The claims of scientism and their
refutation must be presented to
Scientism believers.

https://www.crossway.org/articles/10-things-yo
u-should-know-about-scientism/

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