Science and Technological
Challenges
Advanced
technologies are potential threats that devastate the living environment.
Although technologies have helped human beings to adapt an easier way of life,
however, in the long term it might not be as beneficial as people realize. Many
technologies have led to chronic devastations in the environment this includes
automobiles, industrial power plants and medicines.
One
bad effect of technology on life is that with more technology placing barriers
between people, face to face meetings happen less. This small, simple change
leads to a whole host of very serious problems with society in general. People
are becoming more lazy; choosing to stay at home and play video games than go
to a basketball game or get together with friends.
Another
negative effect of science is the destruction of the protective ozone
layer. Because of the highly toxic and harmful smoke released by the
several chimneys of industries: Chemical ones which are mainly the CFCs in the
air, a hole near the North Pole can now be seen. Greenhouse effect
is occurring. The ultra-violet rays of the sun reach us easily and
this leads to skin problems due to sun radiation.
Since
the industrial revolution, society has become more and more dependent on
technology. So much so that we sometimes lack the willingness to think before
we act. We become impatient if it takes more than a few seconds to download a
copy of the morning news paper. We expect immediate responses to our email, and
we expect someone to answer their cell phone whenever and wherever we call.
“Industrialization resulted in rapid and sustained economic growth and a
massive increase in consumer goods. But at the same time, for many people it
meant a thoroughly unpleasant work environment.
The
invention of the television has brought all forms of entertainment into our
houses with video and audio combined. Before 1950, newspapers and radio were
the only ways to bring media or entertainment into the house. Mass production
and other job opportunities brought many people from the rural areas and farms
into the city. Society is more reliant on technology than ever before. While
technologies have their advantages there is a negative effect to all this
technology as well. Technology can actually harm society rather than help it.
Competition between companies or even cities can sometimes make our lives for
even worse. When a city builds more roads to attract tourists, the result is
more traffic, not less. Even things we take for granted such as the automobile
have negative effect on us. Because the automobiles cause pollution and that
can surely harm us slowly.
Humanity
at the moment may be compared to a colony of bacteria in a Petri dish with a
constant food supply: with no way to remove the wastes of their metabolism, the
bacteria eventually poison themselves. How information technology is changing
the family and how it might affect the future. Some of the ways that IT may
affect the perceptions and behaviors of individuals are considered next.
Critics of this technology argue that it is negatively affecting our family
lives. Their concern is that because of increasing use of home computers, a
growing number of family people are becoming addicted to computers and loosing
human interaction. Information technology is affecting our children is another
family issue brought by the critics. Critics fear that soon our world will
become electronic society, because the neighborhood would lose intercommunion.
Families have transferred their homes to offices, however reducing the family
conceptions at the same time. Because of the technology family and school are
taken over by leisure activities and mass entertainment that is only
technological not real. Since kids are using information technology for their
possible leisure and entertainment time instead of possible social
interactions. When we spend time on computers at home and converse with people
around the world, critics argue that they are talking to an artificial
community and they lack real world face to face human interaction due to
talking through a computer network is greatly different from face to face
contact. Working at home with this information technology, we would certainly
be concerned with work all the time at home that would affect the family.
Although using multimedia interface and emotional communication tools we can
build up a better environment for communication that does not suffice the real
world. On the whole, it will make the people isolate and decrease social skills
to be dependent on computers. Since school and family are the possible social
gathering for children, increased use of information technology reduces
possible human interaction that degrades the possible psychological development
for the children. Family and school are the two main socialization institutions
for children. Phone conversations can be monitored, government satellites can
be used to watch your every move, and records can be kept electronically during
your lifetime. For instance Radar, used by the police, to determine another
vehicle’s speed is another technological advance that has negative impacts. The
ability to determine the speed of a passing vehicle has made it possible to
enforce speed limit laws. While I’m not arguing the benefits vs. the
disadvantages of this technology, I would simply like to make it know that this
can be considered by some as a negative impact on society, especially those
that have acquired a speeding ticket. The advancement of technology creates a
need to monitor this technology. This can often have negative impacts on
society. Technology has had a negative impact on our society. We would be
better off in the predated times when there was less technology advancements.
As technology and science advances human’s morals and ethical values diminish.
For instance, the internet has given us a way to email and contact others
without having to face them. Therefore, our social live is becoming more and
more complicated.
At
this 20th century, some youth prefer going online to watch
pornographic films on the internet there by spoiling their mind and changing
their thought towards things that are negative to their social living. This is
as a result of its availability to all and sundry that can have access to the
internet. When we look at computer as a perfect measure to storing data, we
fail to understand that hackers and crackers are digging deep everyday to hack
your system in other to still your vital information’s only to use it against
you. Back in the days where student do real research work to come out with
inventions from a thorough practical work, we prefer going into the internet to
get an already made project work and make it ours.
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