technosciencen.
/ˈtɛknə(ʊ)ˌsʌɪəns/, U.S. /ˈtɛknoʊˌsaɪəns/ 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.
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society > occupation and work > [noun] > regular occupation, trade, or profession > technology > branches or types of
manufacturing technology1890
geotechnics1902
geotechnology1908
neotechnics1927
high technology1936
appropriate technology1950
new technology1953
space technology1957
technoscience1960
microtechnology1963
telechirics1963
reproductive technology1965
high-tech1967
megatechnics1967
terotechnology1970
ecotechnology1973
new-tech1980
analogue1986
sci-tech1990
haptics1992
1960 Amer. 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.
1977 Asian Surv. 17 382 One of the key fields of techno-science is, of course, space exploration.
1987 Current Anthropol. 28 597/2 The third knowledge component of technology is techno-science, the principles that underlie a technology's operation.
1998 Wired Mar. 120/3 Haraway finds it ironic that technoscience has abrogated [sic] to itself the right to define truths that are fixed and universal.
2000 N.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.
2002 A. 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.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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