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Technology- correct use of tools. technology should make your life easier and/or more fun. technology should improve our lives does technology always make our lives easier or fun? 1. video games 2. illegal downloads 3. machines 4. viruses 5. scams designing objects that help make their jobs, enviroment, sports, safety or anything that involves people system- an organized way to achieve a goal, a system includes 4 parts 1. input 2. output 3. process 4. feedback all systems have trade offs.1 unintended outcomes 2 unintended outcomes the diffrence of science and technology is that technology focuses on invention and innovation. science focuses on the natural world invention new product invention improving an exsiting product technology should use resource efficently the 4 points reduce reuse recycle renew agricultural age up to the 1700s people use wooden plows industrial age 1700s - 1950s people made factories and steam engines information age 1950s to now people used computers made the sharing of info faster and organized sharing info has made inventions and inventions happen faster current technologies uses binary code 0 and 1 to program computers allows us to move a ton of info up one time resources we use in technology natural resources not man made synthetic man made material