ABSTRACT
Science and technology are major forces in our everyday lives. They help structure our personal and working relationships. They offer new possibilities – but also new threats. They allow opposite ends of the globe to speak to one another – simultaneously, they are linked to the possible despoliation of that globe through industrial pollution and environmental damage. Science and technology also offer new ways of understanding everyday reality – they exist both as a body of ‘facts’ about the world and as a framework for rational thought. Meanwhile, that form of rationality may blind us to alternative ways of valuing ourselves and the world around us.
