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V. Answer the following questions.

1. What role do engineers play in technology?

2. What is the task of mathematicians?

3. Why do we use technology?

4. What is the definition of technology?

5. Does engineering affect the living conditions of humanity?

6. How can we change the world?

7. What branches is technology closely connected with?

1. Every engineering design operates within constraints that must be identified and taken _____ account.

2. Many engineers are engaged _____ science.

3. _____ the one hand, there may be unexpected benefits.

4. Our access to and use of vast stores of fossil fuels have made us dependent _____ a nonrenewable resource.

5. Technology is largely responsible _____ such large-scale changes as the increased urbanization of society and the dramatically growing economic interdependence of communities worldwide.

6. Most technological innovations spread or disappear _____ the basis of free-market forces—that is, on the basis of how people and companies respond to such innovations.

7. Secrecy most often provides only an advantage _____ terms of time—a head start, not absolute control of knowledge.

8. An automobile is a more complex system, made _____ of subsystems for controlling engine temperature, combustion rate, direction, speed, and so forth.

9. The professional values of engineering are very similar _____ those of science, including the advantages seen in the open sharing of knowledge.