technoscience

English

Etymology

From techno- +‎ science.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛknoʊˌsaɪ.əns/

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Noun

technoscience (uncountable)

1. The long-standing global human activity of technology combined with the scientific method that occurred primarily in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries.
2. (philosophy, social sciences) The study of the technological and social context of science.
   • 2002, Ginette Verstraete, Tim Cresswell, Mobilizing Place, Placing Mobility: The Politics of Representation in a Globalized World, Rodopi, page 20:

     Briefly put, strategies of globalization undertaken by the state, capital and technoscience all attempt to negotiate the production of locality in a non place- based way that induces increasingly delocalizing effects.

   • 2015, Pope Francis I, Laudato Si': Encyclical Letter on care for our common home:

     Technoscience, when well directed, can produce important means of improving the quality of human life, from useful domestic appliances to great transportation systems, bridges, buildings and public spaces.

Further reading

• technoscience on Wikipedia.Wikipedia