The Nature of Technology
Technology has a number of distinct characteristics:
1. It is Related to Science?
Although there is certainly a relationship between science and technology, there is, except in certain high technology industries, very little technology that could be classified as applied science. Technology is marked by different purposes, different processes a different relationship to established knowledge and a particular relationship to specific contexts of activity. Change in the material environment is the explicit purpose of technology, and not, as is the case with science, the understanding of nature; accordingly its solutions are not right or wrong, verifiable or falsifiable, but more or less effective from different points of view.
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This Critical Issue was researched and written by Gilbert Valdez, Ph.D., senior advisor for technology and codirector of the North Central Eisenhower Mathematics and Science Consortium at Learning Point Associates.
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