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Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *teḱ-

Proto-Indo-European *tetḱ-

Proto-Indo-European *téḱ-sneh₂der.

Ancient Greek τέχνη (tékhnē)

Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)

Ancient Greek τεχνο- (tekhno-)der.

English techno-

Proto-Indo-European *sek-?

Proto-Indo-European *-éyti

Proto-Indo-European *skey-der.

Latin sciō

Latin sciēns

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -ia

Latin scientialbor.

Old French sciencebor.

Middle English science

English science

English technoscience

technoscience (uncountable)

The long-standing global human activity of technology combined with the scientific method that occurred primarily in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries.
(philosophy, social sciences) The study of the technological and social context of science.
- 2002, Ginette Verstraete, Tim Cresswell, Mobilizing Place, Placing Mobility: The Politics of Representation in a Globalized World, Rodopi, page 20:
  Briefly put, strategies of globalization undertaken by the state, capital and technoscience all attempt to negotiate the production of locality in a non place- based way that induces increasingly delocalizing effects.
- 2015, Pope Francis I, Laudato Si': Encyclical Letter on care for our common home:
  Technoscience, when well directed, can produce important means of improving the quality of human life, from useful domestic appliances to great transportation systems, bridges, buildings and public spaces.