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ICT student textbook/Introduction (view source)
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| style="width: 60%;" |[[File:A Bonobo at the San Diego Zoo "fishing" for termites.jpg|left|thumb|500px|A Bonobo fishing for termites ]]
| style="width: 60%;" |[[File:A Bonobo at the San Diego Zoo "fishing" for termites.jpg|left|thumb|600px|A Bonobo fishing for termites ]]
| style="width: 40%;" |What is this bonobo doing - can you guess? You are correct! It is "fishing" for termites from an ant hill.
| style="width: 40%;" |What is this bonobo doing - can you guess? You are correct! It is "fishing" for termites from an ant hill.
<br>Did you think only human beings can fish? When it was first discovered in the 1920s that chimpanzees can make tools, all over the scientific community, people were amazed. This was because human beings were defined as the species which makes tools for use. Dr Louis Leakey, a famous [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primatology primatologist] said " We have to define what is a tool, or we have to define what is a human being or we have to accept that chimpanzees are human beings!".
<br>Did you think only human beings can fish? When it was first discovered in the 1920s that chimpanzees can make tools, all over the scientific community, people were amazed. This was because human beings were defined as the species which makes tools for use. Dr Louis Leakey, a famous [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primatology primatologist] said " We have to define what is a tool, or we have to define what is a human being or we have to accept that chimpanzees are human beings!".
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| style="width: 60%;" |[[File:Google self-driving Lexus SUV rear view.jpg|left|thumb|500px|Google self-driving car]]
| style="width: 60%;" |[[File:Google self-driving Lexus SUV rear view.jpg|left|thumb|600px|Google self-driving car]]
| style="width: 40%;" |What is special about this car? Did you guess? Yes, it has no driver.
| style="width: 40%;" |What is special about this car? Did you guess? Yes, it has no driver.
<br>When you drive, you gather information about the road, other vehicles, people, animals and weather and you operate the controls. Gathering information, processing, analyzing and acting, has been a defining characteristic of the human species. If a car can now do this, does it make the car a human being? What makes a human being special?
<br>When you drive, you gather information about the road, other vehicles, people, animals and weather and you operate the controls. Gathering information, processing, analyzing and acting, has been a defining characteristic of the human species. If a car can now do this, does it make the car a human being? What makes a human being special?