WEIGHING SCALE APPROACH: TECHNOLOGY'S UPSTREAM, DOWNSTREAM AND LIMITATION SIDES

Technology helps the business enterprises to make the productions faster and efficient. One of the best example of how technology helps business industries is based in the article "How Technology Helped Banana Chips Get That Perfect Crunch" from DOST which was written on 2013; "the LGU of Malitbog sought the assistance of DOST through CEST for the upgrading of the common service facility for banana chips processing. The processing facility was upgraded through the acquisition of equipment such as spiral mixer, vacuum packaging machine, deep fryers, digital weighing scale, refractometer, and industrial thermometer. Other interventions included enhancement training of the banana chips processing including compliance to Good Manufacturing Processes for food safety standards."

Technology with the understanding of science guided humans through the years in order to understand things around and outside the earth. Humans constantly discovering new knowledge and making unknown things not a mystery anymore. As reported by a researcher article "Mystery Solved: The Identification of the Two Missing Romanov Children Using DNA Analysis" published on March 11, 2009, written by Michael D. Coble et al.; "One of the greatest mysteries for most of the twentieth century was the fate of the Romanov family, the last Russian monarchy report forensic DNA testing on the remains discovered in 2007 using mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), autosomal STR, and Y- STR testing. Combined with additional DNA testing of material from the 1991 grave, we have virtually irrefutable evidence that the two individuals recovered from the 2007 grave are the two missing children of the Romanov family: the Tsarevich Alexei and one of his sisters." Through DNA testing, the case of disappearance of the two missing children is already closed. There will be no speculations will exist like are they still alive? Are they kidnapped or tortured? The increasing progress of knowledge in science and technology is indeed important to humans.

Humans are the most intelligent species in the world, but it doesn't mean that they have immunity to diseases that are life threatening. The Polio or Poliomyelities is the perfect example. According to World Health Organization, "Polio is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. It invades the nervous system, and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours. The virus is transmitted by person-to-person spread mainly through the faecal-oral route or, less frequently, by a common vehicle (for example, contaminated water or food) and multiplies in the intestine." This disease is highly dangerous back then on early 1950's between 13,000 and 20,000 paralytic cases were reported each year when the vaccine is not yet invented. Based on the data gathered by World health Organization, "When the Global Polio Eradication Initiative was formed, polio paralyzed more than 350 000 people a year. Since that time, polio case numbers have decreased by more than 99%. More than 16 million people have been saved from paralysis because of vaccination efforts against polio." We can analyze how the polio disease cases dramatically decrease because of the vaccine which is the product of technology. This history is one of the greatest proof of how essential the progress of technology is in human survival.