How do they help develop one another? I've recently saw an AH premise of am extremely early industrial revolution (as in in BC). So it would be receiving 18th century technology with the mindset, philosophy, and culture of around 2000 years ago. I'm just curious about how such technology will coincide with the development of culture and philosophy.
Pretty vexed question... In the relationship between technology and culture I would say that there's stages something like this:
1- "The time is ripe" cultural/social/economic factors make a certain problem more urgent and more solvable than it has been in the past
2- The new technology is invented and introduced into the world - it solves the problem that has recently been bugging people more and more, and so starts to spread. At this stage the way the technology is used is largely as a solution to a particular problem, determined by the cultural/social/economic factors that made the time ripe for this new tech.
3- The new technology becomes widespread. People get used to a world without whatever problem it is the tech was invented to solve. People learn about the tech in order to use, maintain and build it. This is when the technology starts to drive changes in culture along with society and the economy.
The question is very hard to answer because you have to decide if you think a) a particular technology will have a particular cultural effect, regardless of when and where it comes into use or b) the cultural context surrounding the tech is far more important, and society will apply it's own meaning to the technology that is particular to time and place?
It might be that an ancient European world which experienced an industrial revolution would start to produce culture and philosophy similar to 19th century Britain, except written in Ancient Greek and Classical Latin. OTH maybe they will go in a direction we can't imagine, since we're not Romans or the children of the first Industrial Revolution.