A little background and definitions will make it simple.
Science is a comprehensive analysis of nature:
Science has nothing to do with gods or religion. It is a comprehensive analysis of nature. If that is hard to understand, think of how other professions analyze information to produce knowledge. That is easy to understand.
Technology is the application of that knowledge
Technology is the application of that knowledge. From that definition, the difference between science and technology is the application of that science.
You could see a difference between an artist and a mechanic, a physicist and a computer scientist, or a psychologist and a programmer. All of these apply the science philosophy to analyze information to produce knowledge, but with very different purposes.
The application of science is guided by philosophy. The application of technology is not.
There is a difference between knowing and using. The same applies to the difference between a scientist and a technologist. The difference is the guiding principle.
For a technologist, the philosophy is simple. You do what you do unless there is a need to do something else. A scientist is free to think what he wants.
Technologist always goes to the user
A programmer has to follow the instructions unless something else comes up. A programmer does not decide what will work unless the programmer is told to do so. Even if the programmer knows what is right, a technologist always goes to the user to decide what the user wants to do. For a scientist, the application of science is guided by philosophy.
The application of technology is not. The application of technology is guided by the needs of the users. There is no need to know what the users want. The needs of the users are the needs.
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