issue88 [0710G 戴三个表冲刺小组] 第3次作业 by scorpiocc

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ISSUE88 - "Technologies not only influence but actually determine social customs and ethics."

Increasingly influenced by booming of the science and technology some people assert that our material life is entirely controlled by the technologies which develop in a high speed. In addition, some of them even conclude that technology also determine social customs and ethics. Frankly speaking, before judging the argument, we had better consider the two questions as follow: where do the customs and ethics come from? Are they created by the technologies? As I am concerned, the technologies are not the ruler of everything.

In the first place, social customs and ethics are handed down from generation to generation determined mostly by the characteristic of one nation. They are spiritual things not material invention which can be made by the advanced techniques. For example, every year in china, we eat moon cakes and appreciate the moon in August the fifth. No matter how busy we are, at that day we are eager to stay with our families. No matter where we are, we will manage to return home to have a dinner with our parents. It is a traditional custom and exists for thousands of years. Obviously, the technologies have nothing to do with this custom.

In the second place, the common senses tell us that the human beings promote the development of science and technology. By considering this condition, we can draw a conclusion that the human beings determine the development of technologies. The author tells us that “technologies actually determine social customs and ethics". Naturally we can deduce that social customs and ethics are also determined by human beings.

Admittedly, the technologies are indeed influencing the life from many respects. We should have a clear view that influence our lives is not equal to determine them. In the present time, there are a popularity of blog on the Internet on which the user can write dairies, tell others the stories happened in the user life, express the user's emotions, and even communicate with others. The blog is an invention of the Internet age due to the development of technologies. However it is determined by the technologies of Internet, it merely provide us a new method of communication, without changing the customs to communicate with others.

To sum up, we should admit that the technologies bring us many conveniences, and to some extent, it influence the social customs and the ethics, but the effects are not final. To accept the author's views means that our spiritual world is also determined by technologies.