LESSON FOR THE DAY

Look around the four corners in your house. what do you see? A chair, tv, computer, electric fans, fork and spoon, etc., almost all of these things around you are the product of technology. Technology is applied science. Techno comes from the Greek word for art and skill.
Technology is older than science, when the early human beings made tools from rocks to cope with their environment, that was technology in primitive form. Our ancestors drank wine even before the process of fermentation was known. Cleopatra, the famous Roman Queen used cosmetics and bathed in milk even before the science of cosmetology was developed.
Technology is the application of knowledge of science to industry for the production of goods and services for the benefit of man. The improvement of food production, crop production, manufactures of new and improved products lie in the hands of technologists.
When can you say that your farming is high technology? And when can you say that a teacher's method of teaching is high technology? Before, a farmer did his work manually, but nowadays, he can already make use of a rice seeder, planter, harvester and thresher. He does need to use his hands in planting and harvesting neither the rice nor his feet in threshing it. Have you noticed how these jobs can be finished in a much shorter period of time?
How about in medicine? What improvements in this field can you say are the products of advanced technology? As mentioned earlier, lasers are now used for very sensitive operations, such as in the eye. Ultra sound is used to determine the sex of the fetus inside the mother's womb. It is also used to determine the presence of tumors in the human body.
Technology today is highly complicated. As technology gets to become advanced, it brings with it some adverse effect, e.g. pollution and other side effects. While a certain country gets more industrialized, the towns and cities near these factories or industries are subject to noise, air or thermal pollution. But who knows more about the problem brought about by technology. You may be surprised to know that it is the technologists themselves.