Role of STS

• Science, Technology, and Society


  •is an interdisciplinary course designed to examine the ways that science and technology shape, and are shaped by, our society, politics, and culture.

  •explores the conditions under which production, distribution and utilization of scientific knowledge and technological systems occur.
• Science


  (1) An evolving body of knowledge.

  (2) Based on theoretical expositions and experiments

  (3) Based on empirical activities that generates universal truths.
• Technology

  (1) Application of Science and creation of systems.

  (2) Processes and objects designed to help humans and their daily activities.
• Society


  (1) Sum of our total interactions as humans

  (2) Group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction
• The Role of Science and Technology

  1. Alter the way people live, connect, communicate and transact, with profound effects on economic development.
  2. Key drivers to development, because technological and scientific revolutions underpin economic advances, improvements in health systems, education and infrastructure.
  3. The technological revolutions of the 21st Century are emerging from entirely new sectors, based on micro-processors, telecommunications, biotechnology, and nanotechnology.
• The Roles of STS (2)

  1. have the power to better the lives of poor people in developing countries.
  2. Differentiators between countries that are able to tackle poverty effectively by growing and developing their economies, and those that are not.
  3. Engine of growth.
  4. Interventions of cognitive enhancement, proton cancer therapy and genetic engineering.