<p>Does a strong commitment to technological progress cause a society to neglect other values, such as education and the protection of the environment?</p>
<p>In todays world, the more and more developed technology surly gives us lots of achievements and other benefits, but there are other commensurately urgent problems such as education and the environmental issues. Several examples from current events and scientific findings clearly demonstrate that the inevitably cost of the technological progress.
Sometimes the dangers are sensed even as soon as the new technology was born. As shown by Clone, a new-born, highly sophisticated technology, people now can duplicate cells and individualities without copulation, can use it in genetics, breeding and medical science .However, soon afterwards objections appeared. It is shown that some biologists and anthropologists worry about whether clone will affect the diversity of genes, break the automaticity of biological revolution, and bring social culture and social relations into confusion. Thus, though there are great benefits of clone, no one can image how tremendous influence it will bring to the society in the future.
Just like the problems of medical and ethical relating to the development of technology, the environmental issues can not be dismissed. To illustrate, a film named An Inconvenient Truth directed by David Guggenheim is appropriately suited for the subject. The movie indicates that the progress of technology is faster than ever nowadays, at the cost of destroying the environment. In the film, shows the situation of todays world, because of the growing numbers of factories, people in some places can not even breathe, and lots of people die of the air pollution. Because of the developed health care system, citizens are living longer and longer ,as a result ,people are in exponential growth ,together with the countless number of cars, provide quite amount of carbon dioxide, causing global-warming problems and the melting of ice-caps in the polar regions, etc. Accordingly, authority and individuals must take responsibilities to balance the relation between environment and the technology progress.
The final example is closely related to the life around people. Computers are commonly used nearly everyday for numerous reasons. At first people use computers to keep some files in order and do some calculating. However, later, like one of my best friend, plays the computer day and night, without caring his school work or friendship with other people or the healthy of himself. Hence, although the development of technology is convenient for people, they should use it properly.
After a careful analysis of the three examples, with the development of technology, a society often ignore other aspects of it such as education and the environmental problem and others.
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