Monday, March 29, 2010

Technology good or bad

Technology could be considered to be a good thing as it makes living easier and once impossible feats of process possible. To consider that technology is a bad thing is to look at the long term effects to the environment and living with the advancement and the demanding need for it. I can’t put myself on either side of this question to say it’s all good without finding something bad to say about some technology that we could have made.
Technology advancement could be defined as far back as the first cave-man made stone tools for needs to survive and live. Then soon after these were used as weapons to defend and kill there enemies and to kill there food supply. Even the very beginning of advancement the tools of technology were used for good and bad. This is happening all thru out history to even modern day that technology has double side sword to be used for good and bad. The implementing of the technology that we make and as we use it for without fore site of the long term effects it has on society and environment.
When the first idea of using a fuel source to power a engine to motivate a horseless carriage was concerned the greatest thing since sliced bread. With this technology advancement had come about there was no fore thought of would it’s effects would have on the entire world. Now in modern times we are dealing with cause of effects of the those fossil fuel releasing green house gas carbon dioxide in to the atmosphere and warm the planet.
The innovation of using uranium as nuclear power source has greatly improved the reliability of electricity in power plants, but now we have to deal with storage and disposal of this hazardous waste. This hazardous material lasts thousands of years with no real secure way of getting rid of it. We leave this problem for future generation to deal with and handle this task.
All these great technology advancement rely on one thing electronics. These sensitive instruments control everything from are cars, TV’s, cell phones and to are nuclear power plants. All this could come to crumbling end by a thing called a EMP which is given off by a nuclear bomb and strong cosmic solar flare by are sun. If this were to ever happen to United States it would be catastrophic to are society bring us to are knees and back to the stone age. They say it would take decades to even begin to rebound back. With each and every advancement there is good and bad we must look further past what we make before we become dependent upon it.

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