| How someone could define what is Science and | | | | are constantly changing how people work and play. |
| Technology? | | | | They change how people think and live. The future |
| Science is search for the profound knowledge. | | | | constantly brings us even more changes. This will |
| Scientists investigate the world around us. They | | | | happen as we continue to learn about the world. |
| observe how things work and develop ideas about | | | | Do we depend on science and technology? |
| ways to make them work better. Sometimes they | | | | What did you do today? Did you talk on the |
| try to test an idea to explain how something works. | | | | telephone? Did you ride in a car or on a bus? Did you |
| Scientists perform experiments to find out how | | | | use a computer or turn on a light? If you did any of |
| things work. The knowledge that they discover is | | | | these things, you used technology. |
| useful for many things. It can help to build new | | | | Almost everybody uses some form of technology at |
| machines. It can help scientists to develop new | | | | work, home, or school. Computer programmers use |
| medicines or cure a disease. Technology is the use of | | | | computer technology to write a computer program. |
| scientific knowledge to create new things. | | | | People may write letters using a computer program |
| Then what is an Inventor? | | | | called a word processor. Many people work in the |
| An inventor is a person who creates a new idea or | | | | entertainment industry. Camera operators use |
| device to perform a task. An invention is the new | | | | television and motion-picture cameras. They use |
| technology created. An inventor with a new idea or | | | | them to make TV shows and movies. Disc jockeys, |
| design for an invention may decide to have the idea | | | | or DJs, play records and CDs on the radio. |
| protected. The idea gets protection from the law in a | | | | Scientists use all sorts of technology to study the |
| paper called a patent. A patent prevents other | | | | Earth and the Universe. Businesses often have |
| people from making, using, or selling the new idea | | | | telephones, fax machines, and computers. Graphic |
| without permission from the inventor. Some | | | | designers use desktop publishing programs to create |
| inventions are simply a better way of doing or | | | | books and magazines. Doctors frequently use medical |
| building something. They may improve an existing | | | | technology. They use it to treat injuries, illnesses, and |
| technology. Other inventions are much more | | | | diseases such as cancer. Pilots fly airplanes and |
| complicated. | | | | helicopters. Who knows what jobs will be created by |
| Today's technology has been in the process of | | | | new technologies in the future! |
| development for thousands of years. New inventions | | | | |