Esteban Terradas and Spanish technoscientific modernity

• Autores: José Manuel Sánchez Ron
• Localización: Contributions to Science, ISSN-e 1575-6343, Vol. 2, Nº. 4, 2004, págs. 551-563
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Science, technology and technoscience We live in an age in which science and technology play such important roles in the lives of individuals and nations that they figure among the most important affairs of any nation. And although many persist in seeing science and technology as separate disciplines -as island-universes separated by the deepest oceans-, they are increasingly interrelated and interdependent. Technology relies on science, but so also does science rely on technology. Naturally, it may still make sense to refer to `basic science', to science which becomes technology when `applied'. However, this is not always the case: without the stimulus of technology, without its skills and instruments, and without the problems posed by technology, basic science would likely become a banal and futile exercise. Nineteenth century electromagnetism is a prime example of this encounter between science and technology, an encounter that heralded the technoscience of today.