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With developments in science and technology being made everyday, it is only natural to address how these developments affect society, their good and their evil. Most of the time society has the biggest say in any scientific or technological advancement. It holds the final answer in deciding whether a developed technology is beneficial or it can be done without. But before addressing this let us first examine the central question; why study science and technology?

Since the dawn of formal learning, the goal has been to make technological advancements and generally improve life. That is where modern science came in. Inquiries into life have given forth physics astronomy and life sciences. Science is a field that grows relatively everyday and there is always an area that demands scientific intervention. And that is where the technology comes in. It is developed to ease the process of investigation and the final result is something that improves the quality of living or a discovery is made. The role science and technology has played in the field of medicine cannot be understated and the breakthroughs that have been made have been astonishing. In all other areas of life, from e-learning to e-shopping to space travel, it has been credited to continued use of science. However in all these attempts to improve human life, their effects on society and the individual must be better understood by non-technical professionals and ordinary citizens as well as by engineers and scientists. So why study science and technology?

Boundaries have to be set on what is right and what is downright wrong. This is where activists come in and defend the use of animals in research. If society is not to be inquired in this kind of undertaking, a point maybe reached where humans would be the subjects of research especially in the field of medicine. Because of issues of morality and professional ethics lawyers, public officials, civil servants, and business people are increasingly called upon to make decisions requiring a basic understanding of science and technology and their ethical, social, and environmental consequences. Ordinary citizens, moreover, are being asked with increasing frequency to pass judgment on controversial matters of public policy related to science and technology. These circumstances require education befitting the complex sociotechnical character of the contemporary era.

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Human beings, who once were cavemen, used tools or weapons made up of stones or bronze or iron to hunt, dig and cut something in the past. The same human being has become the master of modern civilization and is even able to challenge the nature. It has only been possible due to the development of science and technology.

Science is such a subject that explains the things happening in the world. First science gives us an idea, and then different experiments are carried out. If the experiments happen to be true, it gives birth to new technology. Therefore, technology is the way of putting scientific inventions or theories or discoveries into practical use in trade and industries.

Science in general, is the study of living and non-living things. It has no such field which is out of reach. Modern inventions like computer, TV, phone, jet, vehicle etc. have uplifted the standard human life and have made it much advanced. It has changed man into god providing a wonderful comfortable life.

Although man has progressed in every field- farming, education, transport or technology, he is always in panic. Unfortunately he has become the servant of science. He has to be afraid of his own inventions. We don’t know when the bombs or missiles may fall onto us; when the history of the Second World War repeats and when a single child becomes a victim of drugs.

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