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Depends on what you define as "tech", no?

• wallace_f 7y ago
  By value add, I mean. But I don't know what's ambiguous about what is and isn't tech?
  • deleted 7y ago
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  • woolybully 7y ago
    tech is anything made, invented, not natural. So, the stirrup, eyeglasses, agriculture, our control of fire.
    • wallace_f 7y ago
      Yea. Anyways, what's so controversial about my comment you responded to?
• gumby 7y ago
  Indeed: ships, metallurgy, chemistry...they had lengthy births.
  • wallace_f 7y ago
    Chemistry is a science. Chemical engineering is the application of that science (to create technologies).
    • EdNutting 7y ago
      Chemical engineering is mostly about 'plumbing' - pipes, tanks, valves, etc. Fluid dynamics. It's much closer to physics than chemistry most of the time from what I understand. Chemistry doesn't have the same stereotypical relationship to engineering that physics does. (This comment is based on what these terms mean in the UK at an undergraduate degree level. I'm an electronics engineer and I know a couple people who studied chemical engineering. If the terms mean something different elsewhere in the world I'd love to know :) )
      • gumby 7y ago
        If you saw how an industrial chemist works you’d see it more akin to engineering than science.