The increasing popularity of the term 'technoscience' as a description of the relations between science and technology is also suggestive of other ways in which science and technology are entwined. Historians of science have a saying: "Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science." Historically, the steam engine developed without much explicit use of scientific theory; yet it inspired the ideas of entropy and the second law of thermodynamics. The machine, not raw nature, suggested the phenomena.
展开▼
