Meanings
- uncountableThe long-standing global human activity of technology combined with the scientific method that occurred primarily in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries.
- uncountablehuman sciencesThe study of the technological and social context of science.
Technoscience, when well directed, can produce important means of improving the quality of human life, from useful domestic appliances to great transportation systems, bridges, buildings and public spaces.
2015, Pope Francis I, Laudato Si': Encyclical Letter on care for our common home1 more example
Briefly put, strategies of globalization undertaken by the state, capital and technoscience all attempt to negotiate the production of locality in a non place- based way that induces increasingly delocalizing effects.
2002, Ginette Verstraete, Tim Cresswell, Mobilizing Place, Placing Mobility: The Politics of Representation in a Globalized World, Rodopi, page 20
Origin
- Ancient Greekτεχνο- (tekhno-)
- Englishtechno-
- Proto-Indo-European*sek-?
- Proto-Indo-European*skey-
- Latinsciō
- Latinsciēns
- Latinscientia
- Old Frenchscience
- Middle Englishscience
- Englishscience
- Englishtechnoscience
Cite this entry
technoscience. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/technoscience
“technoscience.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/technoscience. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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