This article was by Jerome Karle entitled The Role of Science and Technology in Future Design. The article was about how design in science has affected technology and society throughout the developing years of our country. He does this by focusing mostly on basic science and the support it gets from government funds. He explains how science is one of the most important tools for a normal functioning and growing society. He did research to find out if science was just as important to society as it was the government. To me, his results were surprising. He found that although the government and some private organizations heavily fund science in our society, the greatest amount of support was from public funds. Although this was a surprising find, it also makes me feel good that our society does focus on our scientific efforts enough to have that great of a support base. On the other hand, science has introduced some problems such as, but not limited to, religion issues. For obvious reasons I am not going into detail, but science has brought along many ideas that has steered this country away from what we were founded on. This is appropriate to discuss because it involves science, technology and society.
He then goes onto explain the different ways that our society has helped aid our scientific advances. As Karle explains, one of the most important ways we have done this is "through the technology that fundamental research generates." This is important because everything we have been able to accomplish and find is through the aid of science and the scientists that are involved. Karle also goes onto explain that the most evident reason society does this is because the return on expenditures is greater than the actual moneys spent.
He concludes the article by stating "there is no question that science and society will continue to co-evolve." The only things that will hold us back is funding. This was a very interesting article because is covered so many topics that really focused the role of how our society relates to science.
-Adam Traywick
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