7 Resources of Technology
People:
create, design, consume, technology. They
provide labor, make the policies that promote
technology.
All systems involve people (except for
those systems which occur in nature).
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| Capital:
money Examples of
Capital include money, land, building, taxes,
stocks, bonds, equipment, and other forms of
wealth.
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| Tool &
Machines: Tools:
extend the natural capabilities of people
and are used to process and maintain other
resources in systems.
Machines: change the
amount, speed or direction of a force and like
tools are used to process
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| Time: Time is one of
the hardest resources to work with. Since time
cannot be sped up or slowed down, people have
learned that they need to manage and plan. |
| Information - data. In a
system, information is needed to tell us what to
do and how to do it. |
| Materials- Physical objects
used in a system (wood, water, iron, oil, sand) |
| Energy: the capacity for
doing work. Energy takes many forms (thermal,
electrical, mechanical) and comes from many
sources (solar, muscle, chemical, nuclear). |
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