Questions and Answers on TECHNOLOGY FOR MANKIND by J Bronowski

Questions and Answers on TECHNOLOGY FOR MANKIND by J Bronowski:-

Question:

How does Bronowski justify that modern technological progress is a natural continuation of earlier trends and the basic pattern of all technologies is always the same?

Answer:

. In his essay Technology for Mankind Bronowski says that technology, primitive and modern is based on the same basic principle. When we breed new strains of corns, we follow the same aim of the first farmers to produce food. Our rockets serve the same purpose of wheels. Thus the aim all technology is to control nature and make life more comfortable.

Question:

What does Bronowski mean when he says that every human advance carries with it a new responsibility?

Answer:

In his essay, Technology for Mankind Bronowski says that technology can be applied for both good and evil. Its misuse will do us incalculable harm. Its good use too may produce an unknown evil. For instance, technology has made modern war more horrible. Hiroshima bears its proof. So, we must responsibly use technology.

TECHNOLOGY FOR MANKIND by J Bronowski Questions and Answers

TECHNOLOGY FOR MANKIND by J Bronowski Questions and Answers:-

Question:

How does Bronowski show that pure science and technology are not independent fields of study?

Answer:

 Technology develops on a scientific understanding of the working of nature. Pure science and technology, too, are closely linked. Agriculture cannot prosper without the study of genetics. Research in chemistry helps in making light metals. Automation is not possible without the study of physics, logic of control systems and electronic devices.

Question:

“Modern civilization is built on the use of Machines in this way”. What is ‘the way’ referred to here? How, after Bronowski does civilization advanced?

Answer:

In his essay ‘Technology for Mankind’ Bronowski says that the tools of the past are made to in modern times. That is how we got the birth of machines. The tool hammer is made into a trip hammer.

          After Bronowski, man invented a thing like a plough or a boomerang or a wheel or a hut out of necessity. When he wanted to make those things strong and durable, civilization gradually made on from stone to bronze to iron to the light metals of the day.