Confusion about science and technology

NancyLebovitz

And yet, we have remarkable technology, and can do medical marvels.

My tentative theory is that there's a lot of knowledge that's less formal than science in engineering, manufacturing, and the practice of medicine which makes it possible to get work done, and some fairly effective methods of filtering information that comes from science.

Science is not particularly reliable.

And yet, we have remarkable technology, and can do medical marvels.

How do you know that it works?

Because you're typing these words looking at a screen and the words are magically transported all around the world to appear at screens of other people...

How would the world look like

Pretty medieval, I think. I don't see why engineers would discover and develop electricity, to start with, never mind all the complicated stuff like transistors and GPS and such.

I don't see why engineers would discover and develop electricity, to start with, never mind all the complicated stuff like transistors and GPS and such.

Oskar Heil was an electrical engineers and at the same time one of the first people to get a patent for a transistor design.

4Jayson_Virissimo13y

To be fair to the medievals, they did end up inventing the clock, windmills, spectacles, wheelbarrows, the longbow, astrolabes, chainmail, etc... without the help of scientists. [...] Perhaps not, but the steam engine was invented by technologists without much input from academics and the first airplane was built at a time when many highly credentialed physicists were saying it was basically impossible. The "engineers just apply theories they get from scientists to concrete problems"-paradigm doesn't really fit the historical record. As often as not, the influence goes in the opposite direction.

-3ChristianKl13y

How do you know that science is responsible?

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