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yuti — November 17, 2007 / 4:53 pm
In 1887, US President Grover Cleveland signed the Hatch Act. The act provided some public support of science through the establishment of agricultural research station in each state, the founding of the National Academy of Sciences during the Civil War, and the 1898 appropriation by Congress, with some daring and much criticism, of $50 thousand to inventor Samuel Langley for the development of the ‘aeroplane.’ During the Great Depression President Franklin Roosevelt relied heavily on the scientist who dominated the newly established National Resource Board, though most were economist and social scientists, for advice on his economic programs.
In Indonesia, discourse about science, technology and society hasn’t became a central issue. Dominant paradigm which rises among our society is technology determinism, which sees technology as a neutral object. This paradigm neglect possibilities such as culture, tradition, norm resistance which can be found in the society. The problem became much more complicated if we relate it to efficiency. In society where the technology was created, people use it by knowing how it can gain profit or increase productivity, while in other societies which adopted it; the beneficiary can be declined because of the different culture/habits. For example our habit to change hand phone whenever there are a new type or function.
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