Answer these questions in your OneNote notebook in Class Notes.

Directions: Complete each question individually. Use your background knowledge to address each question; note that there are no right or wrong answers. Once complete, discuss your answers with a partner and collectively develop a definition for the terms, "Invention" and "Innovation." You will be asked to share your responses with the class.

  1. Can people survive without technology?

 
  1. As technology advances, do people live longer or shorter lives?

 
  1. As technology advances, does technology become more or less complex?

 
  1. As technology advances, do people become more or less specialized in the things they do for a living?

 
  1. As technology advances, do the tools and processes we use to make, build, and do things become more efficient (become faster and require less material, energy and fewer people)?

 
  1. As technology advances, do the things we make, become: more reliable? Safer? More durable? Perform better?