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114"Humanity has made little real progress over the past century or so. Technological innovations have taken place, but the overall condition of humanity is no better. War, violence, and poverty are still with us. Technology cannot change the condition of humanity. "
写了nearly two hours, 觉得很烂,不过还是决定发出来,恳请大家批阅……不知道是不是跑题了,郁闷……
The arguer asserts that technology cannot change the condition of humanity which has made little progress during the past century or so. In my point of view, though war, violence, and poverty are still with us, the overall condition of humanity has been influenced to a great extent by the technology advancement.
In the first place, though the persistent problems such as war, violence and poverty are still disturbing us today, the situations are much better than before, with the development of our science and technology. War, violence and poverty which have been existed since the primitive society, are caused by people's ambitious to enlarge their own territory, to let others respect them and their greedy for wealth. But since there are more goods as a result of the technology advancement , few people have nothing to eat .what's better, a large quantity of people are now have a comfortable live without concerning the possibility of starvation . In order to illustrate the point clearly, let us see a typical example. In the primitive society, few tribes had enough things to eat, and they also had no safe place to live. In order to avoid eating by furious animals, they would combat with other tribes merely because they wanted to take over a safety place to live. So the war between the two tribes began. But let us assume that all the tribes have various things to eat, they also live a comfort live, without disturbance from the frightened animals, which is situations as the life today, the reason for combating with others diappear.
In the second place, developing at an unprecedented speed, technology will provide us with more solutions to the lasting problems which serves as great challenges to people today. Frightened by the severely destroy force of the nuclear bomb, few countries are inclined to declare war with other country. It's the nuclear bomb that making the delegate sit together to discuss how to solve conflicts in a peace way. It's the technology advancement in agriculture that more product are becoming available for us to eat .And it's also the development of modern tools that crimes are decreased to a great extent. So, we have every reason to believe that technological innovations can lead our society to a better way to develop.
Last but not the least, despite it's true that technology could not change the condition of humanity, it indeed inspire us to have a reflection on these problems. In order to see the point more clearly, let us see an instance in case. In the past, nearly no people worried about one day we may use out of our resources, but when people realized the possibility that some precious resources are very rare, they began to think about ways to save resources. Taking fresh water for granted, people never value it, but when they were told by the modern knowledge that the last drop of fresh water may be their own eye drops, people all over the world began to take measures to save water. It goes the same with the problems related to humanity.
To sum up, though the technological innovations could not change the condition of humanity, it do let people have a profound reflection on themselves, and the problems in relation with humanity. In addition, the advancement also provide us with more reliable measures to solve those problems. |
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