Human Ingenuity- which involves challenging student's to draw upon their knowledge and abilities to use resources to solve technological problems. Impacts -which allows students to carefully weigh the benefits and risks of technologies, and make informed decisions about technological issues. One impact technology has is on other academic disciplines such as the humanities and especially science. In the Walt Disney animated children's classic, The Lion King . Technology has a similar cyclical type of relationship with science.
Science seeks to understand and technology seeks to design a human solution.
As science theorizes and understands more about our physical and biological world, technology looks to take that understanding and design a human solution. This in turn open's up new areas of research for science and continues the cyclical relationship. Mathematics becomes a vital tool or, if you prefer an elegant language that is understood universally by both science and technology. Through technology, people will not solve all of the problems in the future. They will, in fact, create some.