• An organized body of knowledge

• Mission of 20th century Science

  • deflate narcissism and combat assorted noxious claims to inherent superiority associated with various “isms” (i.e. racisim, sexism, ageism, etc.)

• source of cognitive authority in modern Western Life

• application of this organized body of knowledge for the benefit of humankind.

• important in individual and group survival struggles, whether in hunting-and-gathering or agricultural societies

• Role

  • help corporations survive and increase profits

  • enhance societal well-being

  • promote shared political awareness, common value orientations and similar consumption patterns.

♡ advancing knowledge

♡ driving technological innovation

♡ informing decision-making

♡ improving public health

♡ enhancing environmental sustainability

♡ fostering economic growth

♡ promoting critical thinking.

♡ Improved Productivity and Efficiency

♡ Enhanced Communication and Connectivity

♡ Improved Quality of Life

♡ Enabled Scientific Advancement

♡ Fostered Economic Growth

♡ Facilitated Societal Transformat ion

♡ Addressed Global Challenges

• Study of science and technology in society - in which technical and social phenomena interact and influence each other.

• Affected by social factors -

  • ideology

    political

    economic forces

    cultural values

• Studies of phenomena such as the general natures and interrelationships of science and technology, the social sructures and reward systems of the professions of science and engineering, and social aspects of everyday scientific and technological activity.

History

• evolved from one of virtual isolation and mtual independence to once intimate association and mutually beneficial interdepence

• Increases productivity and efficiency

  (i.e. use of coal/ resources to fuel power)

• Innovation and new industries

  leads to increase standard of living

• Economic competitiveness and access to global markets

• Economic transformation

  (i.e commercial aircraft and products in the semiconductor, computer and office equipment sector

  
  

Outcome of WW2

• Advancements in weaponry and military technology

• Improvements in surveillance, communication, and intelligence gathering

• Developments in transportation and logistical capabilities

• Innovations in defense and protection systems

• Impacts on military strategy, tactics, and decision-making

• Advancements in diagnostic tools and techniques

• Developments in therapeutic treatments and medications

  • vaccines

    therapeutic drugs

• Improvements in surgical procedures and medical devices

  • prosthetic devices

    rehabilitative apparatus

    high-tech in ICUs

• Impacts on healthcare costs, accessibility, and quality of care

• Impacts on government decision-making and policy formulation

• Role in national security, defense, and intelligence gathering

• Implications for data privacy, cybersecurity, and digital governance

• Role in addressing transnational challenges (e.g., climate change, pandemics)

• Challenges to traditional religious beliefs and doctrines

  • adaptation to existential claims is difficult because of religious beliefs, having an inconsistent number of believersin modern science.

• Impacts on religious practices and rituals

  • some advancements (i.e. Thirty Meter Telescope) disrupts the sacredness of areas, items, etc.

• Tensions between scientific explanations and religious worldviews

• Influence on religious institutions and their responses to scientific progress

  • abortion, IVF, etc.

• Debates around the ethical implications of emerging technologies

  • therapeutic drug to deform fetuses of pregnant women

• Concerns about privacy, data security, and the use of personal information

• Considerations of the social and environmental impacts of technological progress

• Considerations of the ethical use of technology in research, education, and the workplace

• Impacts on human values, social norms, and the transformation of society

- Challenges to traditional philosophical assumptions and worldviews

- Impacts on the understanding of the nature of reality, consciousness, and the human condition

- Debates on the relationship between scientific knowledge and philosophical inquiry

- Implications for metaphysical and epistemological questions

- Influence on the philosophy of mind and the study of cognition

- Ethical considerations surrounding the development and use of technology

- Impacts on the philosophy of science, including debates on scientific methodology and objectivity

- Influence on the philosophy of technology and the nature of human-technology interactions

- Implications for the philosophy of language and the nature of communication in the digital age

- Contributions to the philosophy of information and the changing landscape of knowledge acquisition

• what extent has the domination of many nation’s research and development budgets by military-related projects impeded/promoted the growth of their civilian economies?

• How should sceintific and technological research be organized and funded?

• What kind of political-economic incentives should be enacted to promote sustainable, more equitable national and international economic growth?

• Landing on the moon

• Polio vaccines

• Civilian jet aircraft transportation

• DNA

• Green Revolution

• Personal computer

• Antibiotics

• Big Bang Theory confirmation

• Space shuttle disasters

• Airplane crashes due to defective engineering

• Technics

• A Technology

• A form of human cultural activity

• A total societal enterprise

• refer to material products of human making or fabrication

• material artifacts produced by a person, group or society.

  • i.e. instruments, utensils, hammers, axes, watches, guns

• refer to the complex of knowledge, methods, materials and constituents parts used in making a certain kind of technic.

• can either be singular or plural

• refer to a distinctive form or kind of human cultural activity, just in terms of art, law, medicine, sport and religion

• refers to the total societal enterprise of technology - complex of knowledge, people, skills, organizations, facilities, technics, physical resources, methods,

• technologies that taken together and in relationship to one another are devoted to the research, development, production, and operation of technics.

• Knowledge

• A field of systematic inquiry into nature

• A form of human cultural activity

• A total societal enterprise

• refers to the organized, well-founded body of knowledge of natural phenomena

• refers to a particular field or domain of systematic inquiry in which such knowledge is sought

• refer to a distinctive form or kind of human cultural activity, one practiced by people now called “scientists”

  
  

Scientists were formally know as natural philosophers and savants.

• refers to the total societal enterprise of technology - complex of knowledge, people, skills, organizations, facilities, technics, physical resources, methods,

• technologies that taken together and in relationship to one another are devoted to the study and understanding of the natural world

• Six key aspects in analyzing human activity

  • inputs

    outputs

    functions

    transformative resources

    practitioners

    processes