NATS 1775 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Technoscience, Reductionism, Technological Determinism
24 Sep 2015
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The idea that technology is applied science has been challenged by many directions: in many cases, scientific knowledge has little direct relative to the technology. Besides, the term draws attention to the increasing interdependence of science and technology: scientific knowledge is one resource on which technology can draw, but it is not the dominant resource. The development of technology is a very complex process that integrates many different things. 7. there are multiple relations of science and technology: technological determinism is the position that technological changes force social adaptations, and consequently constrain the trajectories of history. The reasoning behind it is economic: because economic actors make rational choices, class structure is determined by the dominant technologies. Technology has systematic effects within a particular situation: the success of an artifact depends upon the strength and size of the group that takes it up and promotes it.
