Complete 10 page APA formatted essay: Is Technology Simply Applied Science.Download file to see previous pages As the report stresses in fact science is the purest form of rational thought process and

Complete 10 page APA formatted essay: Is Technology Simply Applied Science.

As the report stresses in fact science is the purest form of rational thought process and gives birth to applied science-which helps make abstract ideas developed in pursuit of science to more applicable forms which are often amenable to replication though such replication still maintains theoretical objectives primarily. Technology, on its part, represents another level of replication and application and draws often from applied science. This level is mass based and commercial. It also has solutions of everyday human problems at the core of its emphasis. In fact the three concepts of science, applied science and technology can be viewed as sequenced concepts on a knowledge continuum with science at one end and technology on the other.

This paper declares that engineering is the discipline that is the closest link the society has to technology. Most technological advances have been sourced from out of the various sub disciplines within the main discipline of engineering. Engineering, as a taught discipline, was considered as science for long.In nineteenth century engineering dealt less with artifacts and more with basic mechanics and chemicals and scientific theories. Subsequently the engineering became artifacts centric and it was easy to make a distinction between engineering as a study of artifacts and of pure science as a study of natural laws. Next argument relating to the distinction between the two related to the creative inputs that engineers possessed which enabled them to find newer solutions and create newer devices and equipments.