Humane technology

The Effects of Transients Continental Ice Sheets and Human Technology... 

The smelting process seems to have been independently discovered in the Middle East, China, and Southeast Asia. The chronological sequence in which the different metals were brought into use was probably determined by the difficulty in winning them from their ores. Copper, for example, which melts at just above 1000°C, a temperature within reach in a vented wood or charcoal fire, was separated from its ores quite early. Iron, which melts at above 1500°C, a temperature that for a long period of human technological development was out of reach, was first produced at a much later time. 

Iron (chemical symbol Fe, from the Latin name for the metal, ferrum), the most prominent of all the metals in the history of human technology, is a gray base metal that easily combines with oxygen and becomes corroded (Friend 1926). Its importance is most likely due to a number of factors ... 

PERM acronym derived from the former name of the Fermentation Research Institute (FRI), in Japan, which later became the Patent Microorganism Depository of the National Institute of Bioscience and Human Technology (NIBH). As previously mentioned, the Budapest Treaty requires deposition of the biological material subject to a patent application. In Japan and some other countries, an applicant for a patent concerning a microorganism has to submit a receipt of that deposition to the Patent Office at filing. The depository checks viability and would furnish a sample of the microorganism to a third party only for study and research, under the established rules of the treaty. 

Human technology developed from the first stone tools about two and a half million years ago. In the beginning, the rate of development was slow. Hundreds of thousands of years passed without much change. Today, new technologies are reported daily on television and in newspapers. 

It is the genius of human technology to master and to serve the energies of life and death and time and space. The UFO holds out the possibility of mind become object, a ship that can cross the universe in the time it takes to think about it. Because that is what the universe is—a thought. And when thought becomes mobile and objectified, then humanity—novices in the mastery of thought— will begin to set out. 

Fig. 14.27. Typical STM image of the 4,4 -PySSPy on an Au(111) surface. (This picture was taken with the aid of Dr. Takahito Sawaguchi of the National Institute of Bioscience and Human Technology. (Reprinted from I. Taniguchi, Probing Metalloprotiens and Bioelectochemical Systems, Interfacial6(4) 34-37, Fig. 2, 1997. Reproduced by permission of The Electrochemical Society, Inc.)...

This distinction, of course, harkens back to earlier debates about human technology and whether it was possible to imitate nature. Newman, Promethean Ambitions. 

The relationship between new technologies and the environment is very complex. Various human technologies have caused a tremendous harm to the environment [38-40]. New technologies are often cleaner and safer than the older technologies they replace [31-33]. The following is a summary. 

What gases are produced as a result of human technologies such as fuel-burning engines ... 

NIBH, National Institute of Bioscience and Human Technology Ministry of International Trade and Industry 1-3, Higashi, 1-Chome... 

National Institute of Bioscience and Human-Technology, AIST/MITI, Higashi 1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305 Japan... 

National Institute of Bioscience Human-Technology, et al. (1999). Hydro Production as an Environmentally Friendlly Technology, Abstracts of Bio-Hydrogen 99 Symposium (1999, Tsukuba), p.6-3. 

It should also always be kept in mind that ceramics are the products of diverse human technologies, not geological materials, and their compositions reflect human choices rather than simply that of a geographic provenience. 

Starch is the major carbohydrate reserve in higher plants and has been a material of choice since the early days of human technology. Recently starch gained new importance as a raw material in the production of plastics, in particular, for the synthesis of monomers to produce polymers such as polydactic acid) and, after chemical modification (e.g. esterification) and thermomechanical processing, to produce thermoplastic starch. This chapter gives a general overview of the most recent research on the development of materials from starch, focusing on thermoplastic starch and the perspectives for future development in this field. A brief review on reactive extrusion of thermoplastic starch is also provided. 

We think that we have done very well with human technology, packing information very densely on to computer hard drives, chips, and CD-ROM disks. However, these all store information on the surface, whereas DNA stores it in three dimensions. It is by far the densest information storage mechanism known in the universe. 

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