What is “technology”?
What is “technology”?
Science
Pure science (to increase our knowledge)
Applied science
(to increase our
welfare and power)
Physical technologies
(e.g. electrical eng.)
Biological technologies
(e.g. medicine)
Social technologies
(e.g. operations research)
Thought technologies
(e.g. automatic computation)
[Bunge, 1967, p26]