SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Science and technology is a topic that
encompasses science, technology, and
the interactions between the two. Science is
a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of
explanations and predictions about nature and the universe. Technology is
the collection of techniques, methods or processes used in the production of
goods or services or in the accomplishment of objectives, such as scientific
investigation, or any other consumer demands.
Science may drive technological development, by generating
demand for new instruments to address a scientific question, or by illustrating
technical possibilities previously unconsidered. In turn, technology may drive
scientific investigation, by creating demand for technological improvements
that can only be produced through research, and by raising questions about the
underlying principles that a new technology relies on.
