CONNECTION BETWEEN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- Relevant for Sociology Syllabus: Paper 1- Sociology as Science ; PAPER-2 – Social Changes in India)
- (Relevant for GS Syllabus: Paper 1– Social empowerment)
- Science is the study of the natural world by scientific methode. collecting data through a systematic process. And technology is where we apply science to create devices that can solve problems and perform different tasks. Technology is literally the application of science. So, it is really impossible to separate the two.
- Science, innovation, and technology each represent a successively larger category of activities that are highly interdependent from each other but distinct.
- Science contributes to technology generally in six ways:
- New knowledge which serves as a direct source of ideas for new technological innovations.
- Source of tools and techniques for more efficient engineering designs and a knowledge base for evaluation of the feasibility of different new designs.
- Research instrumentation and laboratory techniques used in research eventually find their way into the design or industrial practices, through different methods in different areas.
- The practice of research as a source for the development and assimilation of new human skills and capabilities useful for different innovative technologies.
- Creating a knowledge that becomes increasingly important in the assessment of technology in terms of its wider social and environmental impacts.
- Develops knowledge that enables more efficient strategies of applied research, development, and refinement of new technologies.
The confer impact of technology on science is of equal importance as a source of unavailable instrumentation and techniques needed to address difficult scientific questions more efficiently.