Science and Technology

Abstract

Science and technology are so much part of the fabric of modern life that we tend to take for granted the fundamental ways in which our lives are affected by them. Imagine, for instance, trying to establish an intimate relationship in a large city without telephones and motor vehicles, or electronic music and movie theatres. Or think of how rapidly we have changed our ideas about the environment and our relationship to it as a consequence of the discovery of greenhouse gases and the hole in the ozone layer.