Technoscience

In common usage, "technoscience" is a compound noun that refers to the entire longstanding global human activity of technology combined with the relatively recent scientific method that occurred primarily in Europe during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries. Technoscience thus comprises the history of human application of technology and modern scientific methods, ranging from the early development of basic technologies for hunting, agriculture or husbandry, e.g. the well, the bow, the plow, the harness, all the way through atomic applications, biotechnology, robotics and computer sciences. This more common and comprehensive usage of the term "technoscience" can be found in general textbooks and lectures concerning the history of science.