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Comment author: ChristianKl 08 March 2016 05:41:59PM *  1 point [-]

Does that interpretion suggest that the model of science first producing theories/concepts/explanations/recipes and engineering then using them is falsified?

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 08 March 2016 08:42:48PM 0 points [-]

Not strictly. It could very well be that

  • there is parallelism (think technology graphs from games)
  • that science feeds of from intermediate technological results
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