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technoscience, n.
Brit. |ˈtɛknə(ʊ)ˌsʌɪəns|, U.S. |ˈtɛknoʊˌsaɪəns|
[‹ techno- comb. form + science n., after technoscientist n., technoscientific adj.]
Technology and science viewed as mutually interacting disciplines, or as two components of a single discipline; reliance on science for solving technical problems; the application of technological knowledge to solving scientific problems.
1960Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 54 530/1 The formidable contemporary literature on American military policy..is almost entirely lacking in a moral-political perspective concerning the use of force. Whether a current study is produced by a research center, a committee, or a single author it inevitably succumbs to the techno-science of our time. 1977Asian Surv. 17 382 One of the key fields of techno-science is, of course, space exploration. 1987Current Anthropol. 28 597/2 The third knowledge component of technology is techno-science, the principles that underlie a technology's operation. 1998Wired Mar. 120/3 Haraway finds it ironic that technoscience has abrogated to itself the right to define truths that are fixed and universal. 2000N.Y. Times Mag. 11 June 25/1 The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by technoscience. 2002A. Feenberg Transforming Technol. (rev. ed.) iii. 72 Radical opposition would include the utopian demand that capitalist technoscience be quite simply junked as just another instance of ideology. |