I think science has an underlying philosophy at it's base to govern the thinking patterns that triggers the creativity in science/scientists. And it most cultures(if not all), the religion plays a broader part because religion governs the way of thinking of all cultures. There was a good argument put forward last century which is becoming widely accepted nowadays, and that is monotheistic judeo-christian culture is behind the modern science since middle ages, regardless of the two starting to separate and going own ways since that time. In other words, the separation of nature from human existence was founded in judeo-christian culture and passed onto science. Not sure how all the above are directly related to the OP question, but in a nutshell, technology is a result(effect), and the science is the cause, and philosophy and religion hides behind science as a cause.