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Test 2: Issue Topic1

“Too much time, money, and energy are spent developing new and more elaborate Technology. Society should instead focus on maximizing the use of existing technology for the immediate benefit of its citizens.”

Essay Response- Score 6

I must say that I reject this statement. While it is true that we need to support society as much as possible with current technology, that does not in any way mean that we should stop progressing simply because our current technology cannot handle all the problems we have brought to it. Does that mean that we should simply accept the status quo[M1] and make do[M2] ? No, I don’t think so. To do so would be tantamount[M3]to adopting a fatalistic[M4]approach; I think most people would reject that. Technology has helped, and it has hurt. Without it, we would never have our standard of living, or quality of nutrition, expectation of a long and productive life span, and the unshakable belief that our lives can be made even better. But it has also brought us universal pollution, weapons so powerful as to be capable of rendering us extinct, and the consequent fear for our survival as species and as a planet. Technology is indeed a double-edged sword. And yet, still have to argue units favor, because without it, we have no hope.

Some might argue that we would be better off without technology. They might say that a return toad less technologically driven approach to life would have the benefits of reducing stress and allowing us to live simpler, happier lives, like those of our forebears. Such an idea is seductive[M5] , smooch so that much of art and all of nostalgia[M6] are devoted to it. But upon closer inspection, one realizes that such a move would only return us to a life of different kinds of stress, one of false simplicity, one fraught with danger. It would be a life without antibiotics where a minor cut could prove deadly. It would be a life where childbirth is the main killer of women, and where an emergency is dealt with in terms of hours and days instead of minutes and hours; a life where there are no phones or cars or airplanes or central heating, no proven drug therapies to treat mental illness, no computers. Would this world really make people happy? 适时来一句反问。

What we already have, we have. And since the only way to move is forward, instead of allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by fear and worry, we need to learn how to clean up the pollution weave caused, and how to deal with a world that feeds on weapons of mass destruction. Doing these things means having to move away from technology into a more difficult realm, that of diplomacy and compromise; to move from the bully stance[M7] of “I am bigger and better and I have more toys and so I win” to a place where everyone wins.

Technology is the thing that will allow people to do that. But, advanced as it is, it is still in its infancy. We have to allow it to grow up and mature in order to reap the real rewards that it can bring. And there are even greater rewards ahead of us than what the world has already experienced.

When technology is pushed to the outer edge that is where serendipitous[M8] discoveries can occur. This has been seen throughout technological advancement, but the easiest example is probably the space program which made us think, really hard, about how to do things in a different environment. It gave us telecommunications, new fabrics and international cooperation.

Paramedical[M9] devices, so that people can be treated even as they are being transported to the hospital, are a direct development of that technology. None of this would have happened in the time frame that it did if we had not pushed for technological advancement. If we had decided to” focus on maximizing the use of existing technology” instead of foolishly reaching for the stars, we would not have made those discoveries which now are the bedrock[M10] of the 21st century. It is the same with the technology which we have now. Yes, we could stop, and put all our effort into just trying to patch things with what we have. And it would probably make a lot of people foolishly happy. But in the long run, it would be the most expensive thing we’ve ever done because we would thereby forestall the discovery that cures cancer, or brings world peace, or cleans and restores the environment. And we would all suffer from that shortsightedness, for far too long.

[M1]the existing state of affairs <seeks to preserve the status quo>

[M2]to get along or manage with the means at hand

[M3]equivalent in value, significance, or effect <a relationship tantamount to marriage>

[M4]a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them also : a belief in or attitude determined by this doctrine宿命论的

[M5]有魅力的; 引人注意的

[M6]a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition also : something that evokes nostalgia

[M7]intellectual or emotional attitude <took an antiwar stance>

[M8]偶然发现的

[M9]医务辅助人员的

[M10]solidly fundamental, basic, or reliable <traditional bedrock values> <a bedrock constituency

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