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• SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY is an exciting interdisciplinary field of study
• SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY examines deep cultural roots of our technoscientific society and addresses pressing public policy issues
• Technological Innovations • develop as solutions to very specific problems and well-defined needs.
• technological innovations facilitated scientific progress by leading to observations and experimentation
• Science & Technology - It encompasses the practices and products that humans develop to modify and control nature for sustenance and comfort.
• Science-based technology development - accelerates economic growth through its effects on industrial productivity
• example of fundamental differences between science and technology
• New technologies • Create new products, • Stimulate the creation of new companies and new industries, • Improve existing products and processes, and • Lower manufacturing costs.
• Nature of Science - Knowing how science works puts scientific facts in perspective.
• Scientific process - Science is a process, not a list of discoveries
• hypotesis one of the steps of the scientific process
• hypothesis an “if-then” statement or educated guess
• hypothesis based on observation
• hypothesis to be tested, accepted or rejected
• hypothesis a result of the analysis of data collected
• Theory - Accumulated evidence, over time, performed through a series of reproducible experiments
• Paradigm - A widely accepted model, example or framework.
• Paradigm Shift - A fundamental change in approach or underlying assumptions.