The Cyclic Relationship Between Culture And Technology :: Environment Environmental Pollution Preservation

Trying to determine the proceeds of grow on engineering is a difficult task. This is due to the cyclic nature of the relationship betwixt husbandry and technology. Working with the general legal opinion of cultivation (1), it is easy to see why the task of analyzing the effect of culture on technology is hard. This is because technology itself is part of this definition of culture, all other(a) products of humane work and thought (2). In a sense, we are nerve-wracking to find the effect of culture on culture itself, which initially sounds strange. However, considering technology as one of the venues that a given culture utilizes to transform itself, the quarrel to examine the effect of culture on technology can be narrowed down to the investigation of the cyclic relationship between culture and technology. Thus, this paper discusses, what we will label, technology-induced cultures and culture-induced technologies, in order to show the feedback loop between culture and tech nology.The class readings provide several instances of how technology affects and transforms its encompassing culture (i.e. the culture that was responsible for bringing forth the very same technology). wizard such technology is husbandry.The inquisition and gathering way of behavior was already being saturated when the world population was about 4 million. With human population reaching 200 million by 200 B.C., it would exact been difficult, if not impossible, to survive by just gathering and hunting. (3). Even though it is hard to claim that early man consciously pursued agriculture as the solution to this problem, it is uncontested that the hunter-gatherer gild is the culture that was responsible for the machination of agriculture, as Ehrlich points out, agriculture was thus invented gradually, piecemeal, and quite probably sometime reluctantly as groups changed time-honored lifestyles(Ehrlich 15/26). The effect of this technology on the hunter-gatherer society was phenome nal, as it put humanity on the road to sociopolitical complexity(Ehrlich 17/26). The constant mobility as well as the scarce resources involved with the hunting and gathering way of life did not allow for the development of a complex society, as Ehrlich explicitly mentions, Without the ensuring agricultural revolution and the sedentary life and divisions of labor it eventually made possible, cultural evolution could never induct produced our complex modern civilization. Without farming, which freed some people of the chore of wrestling eatable from the environment, there would be no cities, no states, no science, and no mayors(4).