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Very few powerful technology systems of any kind are __________ ___________ _________. -
✔✔independent of military, security, and global political implications
When surrounded by technologies, we become _______ , we couple to them, we link to them, and the
process is mostly subconscious. - ✔✔bound with them
A company may decide to ____________ its own product, even if it is still profitable, to prevent a
competitor from doing it and achieving market dominance. - ✔✔"cannibalize"
At _________, technologies are causal and relatively effective responses to particular challenges, and
therefore have a clarity of purposes that is diffused as one moves to Level II and III effects
of technologies. - ✔✔Level I
The key features of a well thought out sustainable engineering approach include -
✔✔adaptability, flexibility, constant questioning and continued engagement with the systems
being modified.
Industrial Ecology - ✔✔A multidisciplinary study of economic and industrial systems and
their linkages to natural systems
Early environmentalism viewed firms as adversaries, but industrial ecology made important progress by:
- ✔✔Recognizing that firms are part of the system and must be included in any meaningful analysis
Life Cycle Assessment - ✔✔Identifies and quantifies material flows, energy flows, and environmental
impacts associated with each stage of a product or process's life
, LCA: - ✔✔Lifecycle assessment
The ___________ _________ refers to core technologies including nanotechnology, biotechnology,
robotics, information and communication technology (ICT) and applied cognitive science. - ✔✔Five
Horsemen
The five horsemen are not just potent technologies in themselves; - ✔✔they integrate in new
and unpredictable ways across the technological frontier.
Technological evolution: - ✔✔is important to cultural power. Technological competence is not only a
critical entry card to global status, but an important playing field on which national and cultural destinies
will be determined.
Nanotechnology is: - ✔✔a technology system that extends human will and design to the atomic level.
Biotechnology is: - ✔✔a technology that extends human will and design across the biosphere.
Reflexivity is: - ✔✔the incorporation of new information into the system from which it was
created, thereby changing the system, often unpredictably.
Redesign of the human is: - ✔✔not just an individual choice, because it does not just affect
the individual. Human redesign changes not just human individuals, but society and culture as
well.
When you look at any___________ , look at what it enables, not just the specific use that it is being
developed for. - ✔✔technology
Green chemistry - ✔✔A shift in chemical product, process, and systems engineering emphasis
to ensure consideration of relevant environmental issues
Bench Scale - ✔✔The testing of engineering processes, methods, chemicals, or materials at small
scale, e.g., tests that can be conducted in controlled laboratory conditions
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