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196"Technology creates more problems than it solves, and may threaten or damage the quality of life."
提纲：1 技术进步本身不足以解决所有问题甚至有负面影响
      2 新技术自身的复杂性以及技术从应用到能很好的进行控制中间存在间歇期，导致新的问题。
      3 不可否认技术对人类生活有正面影响
Does technology creates more problems than it solves and may diminish the quality of life, as the statement contends? Granted that technology may have impacted our life adversely to some extent, however, the statement fails to illustrate the significant positive influence that the modern industrial and computer revolution have had on the quality of life--at least in the developed world.

In the first place, I agree with the statement insofar as technology in itself does not suffice to solve all problems and even has a negative effect on the society under some circumstance. The introduction of vehicle, for example, greatly increases the efficiency of transportation, but it also lead to the traffic jam and a trend to the grossly overweight among the population. Moreover, thousands of people are killed in the traffic accident and the emission from automobile, which cause the acid rain that destroys forests and lakes, is responsible for the increasing pollution and environmental stress. Under this circumstance, it is obvious that technology diminish the quality of life.

In addition, the increasing complexity of modern technology has led to a new kind of catastrophe: the failure of whole systems. The result of our dependence on the benefits of complex technologies is an increasing complex set of operation for putting these technologies to work and there is a lag between the introduction of new technologies and the development of adequate controls over the application of those technologies. This requires more human skill and effort, and the chances of error and breakdown are greater. As Charles Perrow—author of Normal Accidents—writes (and I paraphrase), “human-made catastrophe has increased with industrialization as we built devices that could crash, sink, burn or explode.” For instance, in the case of the Three Mile Island accident--a terrible nuclear accident originating from a failure of the feedwater system—thousands of people’s life was threatened by the leaking radioactive substance and thousands of people were forced to leave their home. Therefore, the technology out of control can even damage the quality of life.

In the second place, although new technology often cause new problem, technological advances play a vital role in improving life. No one could imagine what the world without electricity, internet or vehicle would be. For example, traveling around the world was a very long, dangerous and exhausting process in 19th century—as in the case of Around the World in 80 Days; while with airplane one can take a convenient and comfortable journey in 72 hours. Besides, nuclear power mentioned above can meet increasing needs for energy and ultimately replace the burning coal--which is responsible for the Greenhouse Effect and might lead to more terrible disaster. From this point of view, technology has improved our standard of living and comfort level.

In sum, I hope it has been shown that technological changes often have positive and negative effects. Without technology, human cannot make any progress; while exorbitant dependence on technology will threaten the quality of life.