Technology is science. Your statement makes no sense.
I'll say it a different way: technology is applied science, so the statement in the OP is circular.
Why not say Science is the bastard child of technology ?
It's the opposite of course. Science drives technology. The science of gunpowder preceded the invention of the gun.
Because that would be stupid. But you can say it if you want.Why not say Science is the bastard child of technology ?
True, though it is worth noting that scientific thought processes, while a component of some peoples' makeup, had to be formalized to separate them (though they still overlap). Prior to that, they were a variable muddy mixture that also included philosophy.The act of scientific investigation was around long before we referred to it as "science" in our manuscripts.
You dont just see sharks with computers.
Before gun powder there was sulfur and there was unfinished burning wood ( charcoal ) . you mix them together you get a nice flame and if you keep it in a closed container you might get a boom .It's the opposite of course. Science drives technology. The science of gunpowder preceded the invention of the gun.
Science comes after you observe and than try to figured out why does it happen .When solving a problem, one must first find a solution (science) before one can apply the solution (technology).
Right. Still before implementation in a technology though.Before gun powder there was sulfur and there was unfinished burning wood ( charcoal ) . you mix them together you get a nice flame and if you keep it in a closed container you might get a boom .
Science comes after you observe and than try to figured out why does it happen .
Somebody tried poking an animal with a pointed stick instead of strangling it by hand. That's science.Before guns were made there was a aspear .
A primitive form of science. But you need saltpeter, which is found in urine. A strange congress indeed.Before gun powder there was sulfur and there was unfinished burning wood ( charcoal ) . you mix them together you get a nice flame and if you keep it in a closed container you might get a boom .
Moreover, technology can never be as exact as science. As explained in the Tegmark clip, technology often takes shortcuts from the complete and pure scientific theory, as long as it is functional.I'll say it a different way: technology is applied science, so the statement in the OP is circular.
Before gun powder there was sulfur and there was unfinished burning wood ( charcoal ) . you mix them together you get a nice flame and if you keep it in a closed container you might get a boom .
Science comes after you observe and than try to figured out why does it happen .
@ timojin:
I suspect you are conflating two distinct processes. Even in the most primitive brain, and whatever 'mind' consequentially evolved within its workings, there existed a pattern recognition evolutionary product that was instinctively useful in spotting prey or predators. That same primitive mind also often came serendipitously across a pattern of 'things' in inanimate forms and processes going on around them in their local environment.
So serendipitous 'recognition' of something that happens or exists and was immediately recognized as beneficial in effect to an organism's survival, may be immediately exploited as a low level understanding based 'technology' by even that primitive mind (evidence the intelligent recognition and problem solving faculties exhibited in many birds and animals working purely from evolved instinct and experience; also the stick/feces throwing behavior of chimpanzees etc).
That serendipitous and instinctive naturally evolved process is entirely different from the higher level understanding based logical and specifically directed process developed by us humans known as natural philosophy and then in its later methodological incarnation as "objective science method". The science process starts with a conscious observation of a pattern/phenomenon, followed by a conscious application of logics and tests of whatever kind to make sense of the observation in higher level mind construct terms which human beings work with to survive and understand the world around them.
So you see, timojin, technology is of two kinds regarding provenance and immediacy of utility/implementations. The first kind, ie primitive technology type and process, even though that came first in our own evolutionary history, is nevertheless qualitatively and methodologically many levels lower in logical and directed inputs and manipulations than the science and technology nexus and methodology we humans have developed to the current state of the art in both the attainment of scientific insights and the deliberate application of those insights to purposeful longterm process of developing technological inventions.
I hope this has been of use to your OP discussion, timojin. Best.