What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.
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What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
Much of contemporary science is really the length and shadow of the technology we apply.
In consequence, science is more important than ever for industrial technology.
Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.
We often hear people talk about the concept of 'uberization,' where a new technology completely turns an industry on its head and forces us to rethink the way things have always been done. No industry will remain untouched by these forces.
It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.
I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the wealth that comes from science.
Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory.
Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works.
In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.
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