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]

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