I was looking for articles to write about for this post on the New York Times website, when I realized that there are two different sections for "Science" and "Technology." I think that its a weird distinction - isn't technology a product of science? Why does the New York Times feel that it is necessary to separate the two, especially as a news outlet?
Quickly looking over the two sections, it seems that the "Science" articles for today are about Pluto's salt water streaks, the Super Blood Moon, dinosaurs, disease, NASA, and the environment. The "Technology" articles are about Google, Apple, Facebook, business leaders, surveillance and global economic policy.
I think its fascinating to think about the ways in which technology seems to have separated itself from science. There's a completely separate world and discourse surrounding technology, which includes international business and big names of tech giants. Science is still taken with the natural world - what still needs to be discovered by man (following that masculine discourse we talked about earlier). Perhaps then, that is the big difference: Tech has to do with the science that humankind has made and Science has to do with what humankind will discover.
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