The Effects of Human Mobility :: Traveling Mobility Technology Essays

The Effects of Human Mobility The effect of human impress has been twofold on the course of human history. It has served to transfer technologies, and it has as well served to facilitate the spread diseases. There are examples of how engineering travels from cardinal culture to another all over the place, from the readings and movies we watch to things that we surround ourselves with everyday. Most of these technologies serve to posit the lives of humans easier or more fun, but there are some inventions that have served to only destroy or make others lives worse. In some cases the technologys originally mean usage was preserved, but in others the technology is single-valued functiond in different manners. An example from one of the first readings from this class is the Chinese invention of gunpowder. Originally it was used for religious purposes, but once the technology spread west through human travel, Europeans used the gunpowder and invented guns and ammunition. Once guns we re invented, though, their use has not been altered. Though there are many different models, and types of guns, they all operate under the same principles and for the same purpose.As I was trying to moot of other examples of transfer of human technology through travel the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy came to mind. I know that this movie doesnt range real life, and might not be based on a true story, but it shows an example of how technology from one culture can modulate and change another. The basic premise of the movie is that a pilot is flying his plane over the African bush lands, and drops his Coke nursing bottleful out the window. The bottle falls into the hands of a tribe of bushmen who still live a relatively primitive lifestyle. The Coke bottle serves many different uses for them. This glass bottle is harder than most things that they had access to, and its mouth and base are circular. Eventually everyone in the tribe wanted to use the bottle for their own purposes. The drawback was that there was only one bottle, so everyone in the tribe begins to fight over it. The rest of the plot is irrelevant, but what I have retold so far serves to illustrate how human travel influences the spread of technology. It also illustrates that the use of one cultures technology in another culture may not be the originally intended purpose.