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Machines and ideas
Tuesday November 17th, 2009 , h.20,30Technical activities have been carried out for millennia indipendently from science: the wheel, the screw or the rudder have been invented and refined without any theoretica conceptualization.
In more modern times it is not always science that comes before technology: thermodynamics and electromagnetism are examples of the complex relationship between science and technics.
Nowadays technology, particularly information tecnology, has a strong role in our everyday life: how much it is still linked to "traditional" scientific knowledge? How much is science guided by technology and vice versa? Why did some authors propose to use the word "bricolage" to describe both processes and products of new technology? What is the future of science and technology?
Salvo D'Agostino
Professor of physics and history of physics at the Physics Department of University of Rome "La Sapienza". He has been visitor professor in numberous universities of United States and he had a grant from Cambridge University.At the moment he does research on history of theoretical physics and history of quantum theories. He has been one of the fundators of Italian Group of Physics History.
Giuseppe O. Longo
Professor of Information Theory at Engineering Faculty of University of Trieste. His research deals with source coding and algebraic codes, epistemology, artificial intelligence, man-technology relationship.He is translator, he is author of novels, short stories and plays translated in many languages.
