I am taking a modern science class and the underlying arguement is which came first: science or technology. I know what I think but would like to hear more educated opinions with examples and reasons.
2006-09-21 22:32:52 · 7 answers · asked by animalcrackers31 2 in News & Events ➔ Other - News & Events
The word Science.
2006-09-21 22:55:17 · answer #1 · answered by always 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Technology came first!.. right from the earliest days!. man has sought tools to improve his way of life and surrounding...
If you think about stone age man. he used rocks and bone axes to change his world.. these where primitive technology. Moving on from there mankind has used a variety of metals (including copper, bronze,iron, steel),and right up to date titanium and more exotic materials to fashion blades .. Each successive material has been an improvement in technology over the previous and has been used in a much wider variety of purposes and functions.
Science is quite a modern notion!,developing from alchemy which really started in the middle ages, and was really the for runner of modern day chemistry .
These days technology and science go hand in hand, science suggests an improvement and technology finds a way to do it.
2006-09-22 07:25:46 · answer #2 · answered by robert x 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Technology
2006-09-22 05:41:01 · answer #3 · answered by ziaq 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Science came first, without science how will technology work?
First wht is science?
The observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena.
Such activities restricted to a class of natural phenomena.
Such activities applied to an object of inquiry or study.
Methodological activity, discipline, or study: I've got packing a suitcase down to a science.
An activity that appears to require study and method: the science of purchasing.
Knowledge, especially that gained through experience.
Science Christian Science.
Now, wht is technology?
The application of science, especially to industrial or commercial objectives.
The scientific method and material used to achieve a commercial or industrial objective.
Electronic or digital products and systems considered as a group: a store specializing in office technology.
Anthropology The body of knowledge available to a society that is of use in fashioning implements, practicing manual arts and skills, and extracting or collecting materials.
Reading the defination of both we can see tht technology is connected to science, not the other way around.
There is some 1 who suggest tht technology came first but i guess tht guy doesnt understand the very basic defination of science. Science opened the network of technology.
2006-09-22 05:48:16 · answer #4 · answered by Jendralus 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i would say science, the way i see it, science is the idea behind technology. Though the early people may not label what they know as a fact as "science"
2006-09-22 05:44:16 · answer #5 · answered by bleah 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Technology. Go way way back when the first tribal group had to use technology to channel water through their village or home or whatever. Technology came first. They also used channel systems to provide water for cultivating purposes as well
2006-09-22 05:37:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
technology.to my mind they come from each other . they are one extra body.
2006-09-22 05:44:31 · answer #7 · answered by love.7hero 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋