SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY w hich is acquired acquired Science is a body of knowledge which through observation and systematic experimentation. More so, science is an enterprise participated in by human beings,
concerned with the study and explanation of the materials and forces of nature (society). Science is also the study of several truths, which utilizes the scientific methods to prove its several truths. T echnology, echnology,
is the application of scientifically scientifically gathered
knowledge to practical problems of society . More so, it is a specialized field like electrical, mechanical, civil engineering technology, e.t.c., used in saving human problems in their immediate societies. A society is a collection of relationship between individuals, including different economic, cultural or political properties with a common goal; it can be a community and also a social group or organization. organization. Science, technology and society is the study of the
impact that is made when science and technology and society are combined and related. The combination of these field has existed since the first inventions, such as the wheel, and continued throughout the years as the printing press and computers were created. Soon the impact that one field has on the other began to change the way people viewed fields as separated separated entities and became one area of study altogether. al together. 1
More so, science, technology and society is the application of a skilled technique and general truth and how it affects our society and vice versa. Science and technology has impacted our society in such a large number of ways that its evidence is everywhere. Just think about scientific and technological innovations like , the inventions of telephone, ever since it was invented, society desired a more mobile ways to communicate with people, hence the invention of the mobile phone. Moreover, the same can be said about mail, now we have e-mail which are being sent within a day, more than that of mail sent via the post office for a year. The innovations that science and technology have on society can be both intended and unintended, and both
outcomes are equally important. Some of these effects are as follows: values are changed because expectations and reality are changed. Ethics of some societies like America, Britain and China e.t.c. are changed as a result of technological and scientific innovation Science and technology also simplified peoples .
lifestyle by which it is easier to gain information via the internet, attending classes online and more specialized jobs being created as result of the new technological inventions. Science, technology and society are more than just the
sum of their parts. In spite of the seeming differences between science and technology , they are ultimately linked and 2
symbiotic. This is because technology will be crippled and blinded, if not for the new knowledge and ideas which science provides. On the other hand science will not progress if ,
technology is not supplied with new techniques and powers po wers..
Furthermore, Furthermore, without wi thout science and technology , no society will flourish and developed, and without society , science and technology and technology will not exist, e xist, because science and technology
are the driving forces and it is the society that is being driven. Society demands products and inventors must create
them in order to appease us. And because the growth of technology tends to create more jobs and the needs for certified professionals is vast. Science, technology and society can be said to have
provided a unique opportunity to study, not just just how and an d why thing happened throughout history, but also answer why they happened.
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