Science And Technology: Redefining The Human Society

Abstract

This study examined science and technology: redefining the human society. An explanatory research design was adopted with attentions on observations and secondary sources. The paper also used illustrations and justified some views involving religious beliefs and assumptions with examples of scientific breakthroughs in printing, media, computer, IVF, internet banking among others. The paper noted that changes in human society are ubiquitous and pervasive which affect all facets of human endeavor. Besides, changes in human society are propelled by several factors but not limited to innovation, creativity, technology, transmission, diffusion, and colonization, imposition of foreign rules, war and necessity. By far, the most exerting pressure is that science and technology, at every era of human existence, had made remarkable changes in the said areas. The study finds out that in every epoch, science and technology defines the social reality of the people and they accept it as an integral part of the society. Thus, printing became a reality in this nineteenth centuries. In this era, life cannot be imagined without digital programs (hardware and software). The paper concludes that science and technology is major catalyst that defines human society at every epoch that make human activities faster, cheaper, and convenient as such, transformed the human society remarkably. Among other things, it was recommended that federal and state governments should sponsor learners in higher degrees in robotic engineering and with cautions on ethical consideration in scientific investigations in the global space.