On 22 May 2014 13:17, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > I took it to be a discussion of Alberto's contention that technological > advances don't need no stinkin' science. Which has a grain of truth. > Science and technology tend to leap frog one another. >
I think there has been technology for a lot longer than there has been "full blown" science. Obviously the scientific method can be applied on the small scale, indeed on the small scale it turns into common sense. But one can certainly work out how to make a sword or a ploughshare by trial and error, without any theoretical backing, or any desire to invent any -- or even with the wrong theoretical backing, involving (say) spirits and elementals. For a long time technology was based on "rules of thumb" and its practitioners had no pretension to build their knowledge into a larger or deeper picture. On the other hand, once full blown science came along, technology really took off. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
