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    Dr. Alipio T. Garcia is a professor of physics at the University of the Philippines Baguio with decades of experience. He teaches physics and science, technology, and society courses. His research focuses on semiconductor physics, optoelectronics, and Cordillera materials culture. The interaction between science, technology, and society is complex. Scientific discovery leads to new technology, while society shapes what science and technology are developed and how they are used based on social needs, priorities, and fears. For technology to be sustainable, it must satisfy what society necessitates rather than just wants. The relationship between these elements is multifaceted.

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    Dr. Alipio T. Garcia is a professor of physics at the University of the Philippines Baguio with decades of experience. He teaches physics and science, technology, and society courses. His research focuses on semiconductor physics, optoelectronics, and Cordillera materials culture. The interaction between science, technology, and society is complex. Scientific discovery leads to new technology, while society shapes what science and technology are developed and how they are used based on social needs, priorities, and fears. For technology to be sustainable, it must satisfy what society necessitates rather than just wants. The relationship between these elements is multifaceted.

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    Dr. Alipio T. Garcia is a professor of physics at the University of the Philippines Baguio with decades of experience. He teaches physics and science, technology, and society courses. His research focuses on semiconductor physics, optoelectronics, and Cordillera materials culture. The interaction between science, technology, and society is complex. Scientific discovery leads to new technology, while society shapes what science and technology are developed and how they are used based on social needs, priorities, and fears. For technology to be sustainable, it must satisfy what society necessitates rather than just wants. The relationship between these elements is multifaceted.

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    Dr. Alipio T.

    Garcia (University of Philippines – Baguio), (Interaction of Science, Technology and


    Society through Time) Alipio T. Garcia is a professor of Physics at UP Baguio, teaching for
    almost 3 decades now. He has an undergraduate degree in Mathematics (UPB) and went to
    pursue advance degrees in Physics (MS, PhD from National Institute of Physics, UP Diliman). In
    addition to Physics courses, he has been teaching GE courses in Physics and Science,
    Technology and Society for almost 2 decades now. He has several publications in
    semiconductor Physics and Optoelectronics, which are his research interests, in addition to
    Cordillera materials culture of late. Science was considered mostly an academic notion and it
    was raising questions that bothered the minds of few. Technology used to be mainly in the
    hands of the governments and it was used to benefit the lives of people, in a way much different
    than it does today and to a way lesser extent. The interaction between science, technology, and
    society (STS) is an academic discipline that studies how Society and culture create science and
    how science affects society in return. Scientific and technological activities refers to the
    clarification of unknown phenomena, and to the creation of new knowledge through the
    discovery of new natural laws and principles, and the new knowledge obtained is then utilized in
    the real society. The essence of how Science and Technology contributes to Society is the
    creation of new knowledge, and then utilization of that knowledge to boost the prosperity of
    human lives, and to solve the various issues facing Society. Creation of new knowledge is an
    increasingly important aspect of scientific and technological activities, and the role of Science in
    this knowledge creation is important for the realization of “science and technology for Society.”
    The natural characteristics of the society are its geography, its priorities, its problems, its fears
    and everything about it will ultimately become the constraints to Science and Technology. The
    society is the brain because it is the Society that dictates which Science, which Technology to
    appropriate, it is the Society that dictates how can individually utilize a scientific knowledge that
    is acceptable and unacceptable decisions are based on the priorities of the Society.

    Based on my understanding or recalling from the past of how man existed and its purpose of
    surviving in the Society man needed not to produce what the Society did not require for him to
    produce in order for him to survive. From what I saw in the video brought by all the
    advancements, people now need what they ones considered only as wants and what they want
    come from what they do not have despite the lack of grounds to necessitate such products of
    Technology by these it has to satisfy the needs and priorities of man in order for the Society to
    survive and achieve sustainability in all respects.
    Therefore, I conclude that the interaction of the Science, Technology and Society are very
    complex because it depends on a many factors including the elements of Science, Technology
    and more complicated and extreme element as far as the Society is concern. There are many
    factors that will affect the society because Science can give an infinite number of objects that is
    acceptable or unacceptable that is what a differential equation means it has infinite number of
    solutions. The particular solution is the boundary conditions and these boundary conditions are
    supplied by society. Science has to satisfy the needs, priorities, the fears and everything of the
    society

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