By David F. Channell
Are technological know-how and expertise self reliant of each other? Is expertise established upon technology, and if that is so, how is it based? Is technological know-how established upon expertise, and if that is so how is it established? Or, are technology and know-how changing into so interdependent that the road dividing them has develop into completely erased? This booklet charts the heritage of technoscience from the past due 19th century to the top of the 20 th century and indicates how the military–industrial–academic complicated and large technology mixed to create new examples of technoscience in such components because the nuclear palms race, the gap race, the electronic age, and the recent worlds of nanotechnology and biotechnology.
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