Indeed it attempts to set out a prescription to integrate the many elements that make up the technology process. The technology curriculum looks at the identification of needs and opportunities. The creation of solutions to needs might result in a new product, system or an environment or a modification of an existing object, system or environment. Opportunities result whenever there is change. This may arise from the development of a new technology being developed, a change in social order, a physical event that occurs or the inspiration of a totally new concept.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Remove the necessity and you remove much of the need for innovation. The first stage of the technology process is the recognition of needs and opportunities. It will take time to develop a culture that will encourage innovation in the absence of obvious necessities. People making use of technologies and the technological process have a responsibility to ensure that the implications of both the development of technology and its use are understood and that any negative outcomes, associated with the deveopment of solutions, are dealt with appropriately. The relationship between technology and society is a balance, and that balance is also affected by politics, economics, the environment and fashion and may have a limited rational basis.