Technology and science constitute an inclusive set. That is, the line between these notions is unclear. As humans modify nature for their purposes, they engage in both science and engineering. We use these tools in utilitarian as well as aesthetic ways to bring comfort, meaning, enjoyment, and danger to our lives. We also see and understand the world through tools that cause us to think in certain ways.
Tools are thoughts as much thoughts are tools.
In many ways we are extensions of our tools. Given the facts of the Information Age, data and technologies are so pervasive in our lives and the lives of most of the world's people that we, indeed, do see and understand the natural and social worlds only within the framework of the tools we use. Social studies education must help students understand the role of technology in their lives. The study of area distribution, the examination of particular places, and the delineation of regions help students understand how earth space is organized. People use similar earth space or areas in different ways.