Flashcards : Human Innovation and Society Transformation — 24 cartes

Methods to overcome mental blocks and generate ideas.

Human progress adapts and transforms nature, leading to cultural development.

Applying skills and tools to manipulate environments and solve problems.

Invention creates new tools; innovation improves or applies them.

Technological advances alter social structures, urbanization, and time measurement.

Animals use objects instinctively; humans develop complex, purpose-driven tools.

Dividing human society from the natural environment through technology.

Concentration of people in cities due to industrialization.

Overwhelming complexity in social relationships from societal changes.

Standardized time enables synchronization of social and economic activities.

Shift from manual labor to mechanized, factory-based production.

Use of natural objects for needs, limited to instinctive actions.

Extend human capabilities, facilitating environmental and societal change.

Humans modify natural resources to meet needs, fostering cultural growth.

Creates a divide, often leading to dominance over natural processes.

Urbanization and city growth.

Increased social complexity and social clutter.

From natural cycles to standardized, measurable social time.

Humans invent and refine tools; animals rely on instinct.

Fundamental for overcoming natural limitations and cultural progress.

Early human technological breakthrough symbolizing control over natural forces.

Creating tools and objects to adapt or modify environments.

Technological innovation and societal adaptation.

Complexity in social relations that can hinder meaningful connections.