At first I thought this is a simple question and I could justify my answer in a matter of seconds but as I contemplate about it, it is actually difficult. I had to consult other people to get their opinion about it because I do not want to rely only on my own. Most of them said it was science which came first. And so I browsed the web to acquire more information. I came across so many blogs and articles debating and justifying which really came first. Some says it is science because since when the universe was created, it is already there, just waiting to be discovered while some says it is technology because before science was discovered, the human primates already uses technology back then without them knowing that what they were using were some sort of technology. If we are going to get the meaning of the two, according to Merriam Dictionary, Science is a body of knowledge about or study of the natural world based on facts learned through experiments and observation while Technology is the use of science in industry, engineering, etc., to invent useful things or to solve problems. But in my opinion though, technology does not necessarily rely on science all the time. Science is the research of what we do not know while technology is the application of that we know. Science is concerned with "what it is" and technology is concerned with “what it is to be". Technologists would mostly conceptualise possible ideas without depending on any scientific bases or advances. But, they might have to fall back on science for the materialisation of some. They would mostly be using real time data and experimental results for optimisation, rather than theoretical calculations which the scientists on the other hand do. Science and technology have their own distinctions but if the two work together, great things are built.
Going back to the question, I think it’s not about which