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The mechanical arts remained subordinated, even as their status was considerably revised. Francis Bacon’s works, corresponding to The New Organon and New Atlantis, exemplified the flip by scholars to ‘reject the specific separation of science and material follow [ … ] without rejecting the existing hierarchy of head over hand’ (pp. 48, 50). Technicians, as we know from the arguments of Steven Shapin, have been written out of visibility. ‘Technology’ solely grew to become a standard word in the second half of the twentieth century. By then the damage was accomplished, and conceptual confusion meant that the term could be utilized in either broad or slim senses, typically embracing cultural or social parts, sometimes lowered to mere tools or to means-to-ends rationality. No wonder once we discuss, say, the ‘science–technology relationship’ or technological change as a driver of history the outcomes are so unedifying and intellectually impoverished. Laura Hackney, co-founder and CEO o...