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Technology

For this activity, identify whether the highlighted word in each of the given scenarios is an example of a mechanical, electronic, industrial, medical, or communications technology. With a pencil and an eraser, neatly write your answers in the blank space provided. Practically everything that has changed the day-to-day lives of humans over the last 10,000 years is some form of technology. These concerns are shared by other philosophers, scientists and public intellectuals who have written about similar issues (e.g. Francis Fukuyama, Jürgen Habermas, William Joy, and Michael Sandel). Estimates for the date of this Singularity vary, but prominent futurist Ray Kurzweil estimates the Singularity will occur in 2045. Meanwhile, humans were learning to harness other forms of energy. The earliest known use of wind power is the sailing ship; the earliest record of a ship under sail is that of a Nile boat dating to the 8th-millennium BCE. From prehistoric times, Egyptians probably used the po