Analysis of the evolution of technology: a contribution to the teaching of science and technology

Abstract

Although technology is an important tool for human interests, it is missing a full understanding of its evolution over time. The literature analyzes technological progress in a pre-established and punctual context, consequence of the cultural, economic, political and social aspects that influences the human effort in the generation of new technologies. The understanding of this evolution would allow us to understand its relation with the human development by the identification of its main phases from remote times to present day. It was not intended to make a study of technological progress, which is conditioned to particular contexts in a given time, but an analysis that considered a single process, the human history. It was identified five phases of changes in the evolution of technology. It was concluded that the technological dynamism, as a result of the evolution of technology, reduced the time of the first four phases in the historical process and that the last one is considered an ideal alternative that will lead the destinies of Humanity.

Keywords

• tecnologia
• evolução da tecnologia
• progresso tecnológico
• ensino de ciência e tecnologia