Technoscience

Quick meaning: Technoscience is a noun meaning (philosophy, social sciences) The study of the technological and social context of science.

Meaning

(philosophy, social sciences) The study of the technological and social context of science.

More Meanings

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.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include technism, technesis, technology, anthropotechnics, technocriticism, technicology.

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