I think the fundamental reason that science and technology are so closely linked is because we really don’t know what “truth” is. A scientific model is not “tr

I think the fundamental reason that science and technology are so closely linked is because we really don’t know what “truth” is. A scientific model is not “true” so much as it is “useful”. In a sense, general and special relativity really did not become “true” to most people until GPS. Newtonian physics really became “true” when it was used to calculate accurate artillery tables. Pasteur’s germ theory really became “true” when antiseptic surgery saved lives. Without the grounding in usefulness, science as knowledge for its own sake, ends up becoming theology, where we argue about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin based on the presumed Mind of God, or whether there is a single Universe or a disparate Multiverse based on how elegant the Math becomes.