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1. Technology Definitions
 * Technology: The correct use of tools
 * Technology should make life easier and/or help us have fun
 * Technology should improve our lives

2. Ergonomics
 * Designing objects that help people with their jobs, environment, sports, safety, or anything that involves people

3. System
 * A system is an organized way to achieve a goal
 * A sustem includes 4 parts:
 * Input
 * Output
 * Process
 * Feedback

4. Trade-off
 * All systems have trade-offs
 * Intended (positive) outcomes
 * Unintended (negative) outcomes

5. The difference between science and technology
 * Science: focuses on the natural world
 * Technology: focuses on the correct use of tool, making life easier, and more fun

6. Technology also includes inventions and innovations
 * Invention: A new product
 * Innovation: Improving on existing product

7. Technology should use resources efficiently
 * The 4 R's
 * Reduce
 * Reuse
 * Renew
 * Recycle

8. The history of technology
 * Agricultural Age: Up to the 1700s - people used wooden plow
 * Industrial Age: 1700s to 1950s - people had factories and steam engine
 * Information Age: 1950s to now - people using computers
 * Made the sharing of information faster and more organized
 * Sharing information has made inventions and innovations happen faster

9. Current Technologies
 * Digital Electronics
 * Uses a binary code - 0 and 1 to program computer
 * Allows us to move a ton of information at one time

10. Resources we use in technology
 * Natural Resources: Not man-made
 * Synthetic Resources: Man-made material