Section 3: "Necessity's Mother"

Write these on the front with an arrow to what "Necessity's Mother" means:
"an invention that would benefit a culture had to meet certain requirements for that culture to embrace change. To further emphasize this point, Diamond states: 'Some societies seem hopelessly conservative, inward looking, and hostile to change." (from study.com)

"So in a way, invention is the mother of necessity; technology “finds” a use after it’s invented, instead of being invented for a specific purpose." (from litcharts.com)

*Today we will read and annotate pages 23-the big "M" on page 28---highlight or underline anything to do with TECHNOLOGY

DEFINITIONS FOR THE TEXT:
unprepossessing--not particularly attractive or appealing to the eye.
syllabary--a set of written characters representing syllables 
undeciphered--not currently understood.
baffling--impossible to understand
idiosyncratic--peculiar or individual.
disproportionately--too large or too small in comparison with something else.

You will continue reading on your own. When you are done you will need to answer the following "ticket out the door" questions on the slip of paper provided. The answers must use RACE strategy to receive full-credit:

1. If there is "no such difference in human neruobiology" to account for "continental differences in technological development" (25). What are some possible reasons that some societies move ahead of others in regards to technology?
2. On page 27 it states, "Inventors often have to persist at their tinkering for a long time in the absence of public demand because early models perform to poorly to be useful". Give at least 3 examples of from the text that prove this is true (the inventor came up with the technology before the need---OR--the invention was just an improvement of something else)