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第一次试写issue,随便选了个看起来不太难写的试试,因为感觉还没积攒什么例子写起来有点空洞。想先传上来听听大家的看法,以便今后联系多一些方向性的参考。谢谢各位啦~
/* Issue Practice: 1
Issue 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."
Date: 4 Sep 2015 */
The speaker's claim above states that humanity does not improve with the development of technological innovations, because of the fact that war, violence, and poverty are still existing in the current society. It is true that those negative issues are still with us in some regions of the world, but this cannot deny the fact that technology is improving the condition of humanity as a whole.
As of some regional level, war, violence, and poverty still exist and technology does not improve the conditions, or may make the condition even worse. Take the war in Israel and Pakistan as an example, modern technology helps develop more powerful weapons and the victims suffer much more compared with those in the old ages when people were not experts in chemical and mechanical technologies. Moreover, the development in genetic modified crop greatly increase the crop production in the world, but there are millions of people in poor areas in Africa do not have access to enough food.
However, when evaluating the human race as a whole, it is true that technological innovations do improve the condition of humanity. Take the same example of the genetic modified crop in the previous discussion, new technology in biochemical and agriculture greatly increase the production of crops. It broadens the growing area of corn and wheat to places with more severe weather conditions by adding specific genes to the crops, creating jobs for local people and bring farmers out of poverty, and therefore improving the living conditions of millions of people.
The development of modern technologies also reduce wars in general. Biochemical technology as mentioned above, as well as other innovations like cars and cellphones, improve our living conditions and make our life better. In the process of human civilization, wars are generally caused by conquers' dissatisfaction of their current status, and intentions of plundering resources and valuables from other parts of the world. When people's living standards are improved, they may be more satisfied with their current situation and less likely to raise wars and invade other nations, thus change the condition of humanity.
Generally speaking, there are wars, violence, and poverty in some parts of the world, where people still living in tough situations even in modern society. However, technological innovations are benefiting human and changing the conditions of humanity in a general extent. With technological development, increasing number of people will benefit from innovations and no longer suffer from wars, violence, and poverty. |
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