This manuscript is in MICROSOFT WORD-6, retyped by Bonnie Seitz. This is one of the several documents which Warfield selected from his older manuscripts for Bonnie to put into a computer file for preservation. John Warfield has never proof read Bonnie's typed manuscripts, but she was pretty accurate most of the time, did her own proof readings for everything she typed. The paper was written as background for a panel presentation at the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Society for General Systems Research, San Francisco, California, 8 January 1980. It was prepared at the request of Professor George Klir, who organized the session titled “Science and Systems Science.” Professor Klir requested that four persons present views on the subject from these perspectives: • a mathematician and scientist (biologist) • philosopher • technology • management and social science. Warfield was asked to give views on the subject from a technology perspective. In this paper he argues the necessity of a "transdisciplinary language" with the belief that "the thing that is limiting the development of an effective connection between science and systems science is the language."

This paper (the TECHNOLOGICAL perspective paper) is only 10 pages and has only 3 references. It is the shorter of two papers with ALMOST identical titles. This paper, the "technological perspective" is not the same as Warfield's longer paper (“Science and Systems Science: A Technology Perspective”) of 22 typed pages with 13 references and was published in the conference Proceedings. Warfield's Proceedings article with figures, tables and an extended reference section, was titled Science and Systems Science a Technology Perspective. Warfield was not able to attend the January 1980 conference and he asked someone to give the paper for him, I believe it was probably Alexander Christakis who attended the conference in Warfield's place, presented the longer Proceedings paper and possibly participated in the panel discussion for which this document was written.

r.w., circa 2012