Science Technology and its Significance to Society in Contemporary World

Technology, knowledge and science are fundamental in modern contemporary society. The
understanding of how social, cultural and material elements influence the production of new practices,
new ways of understanding and new institutions is vital in our understanding of contemporary
postmodern society. Studies of technology and science provides people with insight into how different
processes of knowledge are initiated and progressed, and how innovative technological processes are
developed, employed and increase in importance. Studies of technology and science gives insight into
the understanding and knowledge of technology, science and knowledge from the viewpoint of the
humanities and the social sciences.
Science Technology and society refers to the interaction between science and technology and other
cultural, political and economic issues and specific example in human history and scientific and
technological development. Science Technology has Significant to Society in Contemporary World
because as of today some of technologies and science related things in ancient time are still existing in
our modern world, in that case science and technology is important in our society and its gave us
knowledge and insights to understand the viewpoint of technologies, humanities and social science.
Evidence of Science and Technology during Pre-Historic Times

Prehistoric technology is technology that predates recorded history. (History is the study of the
past using written records). Anything prior to the first written accounts of history is prehistoric, including
earlier technologies. About 2.5 million years before writing was developed, technology began with the
earliest hominids who used stone tools, which they may have used to start fires, hunt, and bury their
dead. There are several factors that made the evolution of prehistoric technology possible or necessary.
One of the key factors is behavioral modernity of the highly developed brain of Homo sapiens capable of
abstract reasoning, language, introspection, and problem solving. The advent of agriculture resulted in
lifestyle changes from nomadic lifestyles to ones lived in homes, with domesticated animals, and land
farmed using more varied and sophisticated tools. Art, architecture, music and religion evolved over the
course of the prehistoric periods, and man’s achievements can be classify as a Discovery, Inventions and
Means, because the evidence of science and technology in pre-historic times are still visible in the
modern word. The three first evidence of science and technology in pre-historic times are the Stone age
where in the people in the past was using stone as their tools for daily living, the Bronze Age where in
the humans in this period are using bronze as their tools and allowing Bronze Age civilizations to gain
technological advantage, and the other one is the Iron age where in the people are using bronze as their
tools because the iron made the life a lot easier those days.
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Stone Age The Stone Age marks a period of prehistory in which humans used
primitive stone tools. Lasting roughly 2.5 million years, the Stone Age ended around
5,000 years ago when humans in the Near East began working with metal and
making tools and weapons from bronze.

 Bronze Age-The Bronze Age is a prehistoric period, approximately 3300 BC to 1200 BC, that was
characterized by the use of bronze, in some areas proto-writing, and other early features of
urban civilization. The Bronze Age is the second principal period of the three-age Stone-Bronze-
Iron system, as proposed in modern times by Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, for classifying and
studying ancient societies and history.
 Iron Age-The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age division of the prehistory and
protohistoric of humanity. It was preceded by the Bronze Age and the Stone Age. The concept
has been mostly applied to Europe and the Ancient Near East, but also, by analogy, to other
parts of the Old World.

Evidence of Science and Technology during Ancient Times 3500 BC-1200 in the World
 Technology in the ancient world. The beginnings—Stone Age technology (to c. 3000 BCE)The
identification of the history of technology with the history of humanlike species does not help in fixing a
precise point for its origin, because the estimates of prehistorians and anthropologists concerning the
emergence of human species vary so widely. Animals occasionally use natural tools such as sticks or
stones, and the creatures that became human doubtless did the same for hundreds of millennia before
the first giant step of fashioning their own tools. Even then it was an interminable time before they put
such tool making on a regular basis, and still more important passed as they arrived at the successive
stages of standardizing their simple stone choppers and pounders and of manufacturing them—that is,
providing sites and assigning specialists to the work. A degree of specialization in tool making was
achieved by the time of the Neanderthals (70,000 BCE); more-advanced tools, requiring assemblage of
head and haft, were produced by Cro-Magnons (perhaps as early as 35,000 BCE); while the application
of mechanical principles was achieved by pottery-making Neolithic (New Stone Age; 6000 BCE) and
Metal Age peoples (about 3000 BCE).

 Sumerian Civilization- Sumer was an ancient civilization founded in the Mesopotamia

region of the Fertile Crescent situated between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Known for
their innovations in language, governance, architecture and more, Sumerians are
considered the creators of civilization as modern humans understand it. Their control of the
region lasted for short of 2,000 years before the Babylonians took charge in 2004 B.C.

 Babylonian Civilization- Babylonia was an ancient Akkadian-speaking state and cultural area
based in central-southern Mesopotamia. A small Amorite-ruled state emerged in 1894 BC, which
contained the minor administrative town of Babylon.

 Egyptian Civilization- Egyptian Civilization was a civilization of ancient North Africa,

concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River, situated in the place that is now the
country Egypt. Ancient Egyptian civilization followed prehistoric Egypt and coalesced around
3100 BC (according to conventional Egyptian chronology) with the political unification of Upper and
Lower Egypt under Menes (often identified with Narmer).

 Cretan (Minoan) Civilization- The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age Aegean civilization on
the island of Crete and other Aegean Islands, whose earliest beginnings were from c. 3500 BC, with the
complex urban civilization beginning around 2000 BC, and then declining from c. 1450 BC until it ended
around 1100 BC, during the early Greek Dark Ages.

In this topic the only evidence here is the Civilization(different Civilization during that time) and
that’s Civilization happens, it lead the people in ancient time to developed a unique and modern life,
and it lead the people to have their religions, form of government, and to have a language and to have
the system of writing, crafts, arts and advance of science and technology and others things that those
civilization thought to them.
The Contribution of Greek, Persian and Romans in the Development of Science Technology