Has Technological Progress Bring Brought Negative Effects upon Society in the Last 100 One-Hundred Years?

Some people, including famous critics, believe that advanced technologies in the past century have brought detrimental impacts on the entire world in the past century. While the perspective they hold is valid, I personally disagree with this perception position and contend, with threefold sources, the overall effect of technological progress is positive, despite the fact negative aspects certainly exist.

First of all, it is an indisputable fact that people’s lives have been revolutionized by new technologies which that are widely applied in many domains, such as to transport, trade, and communications. Because of the innovations in techniques, we can connect with friends immediately by telephone or on the Internet and fly through the Pacific for some hours by airplane, which hardly can could hardly be imaged imagined by the people who lived in hundreds years ago. Secondly and more importantly, though, technical technology promotions advantage to enrichhas helped to satisfy the material needs and make hunger history around the world. With the development of techniques in agriculture, as well as transport, the outputs output of foodstuffs are is increasing, and these foodstuffs can be delivered to those areas where are suffering from floods or droughts. Last but not least, improving technologies not only benefit the materials physically, but also profit the mentally. For instance, the past 20 twenty years have seen considerable changes in people’s spiritual lives due to the dramatic improvement of the Internet technologies.

Nonetheless, we cannot ignore the harmful influences influence caused by of technical progress, such as making people more lazy and losing the traditional techniques and skills.

By way of In conclusion, I restate my position that the merits brought by new technologies far outweigh the drawbacks. However, reducing the negative consequences to the limit as much as possible is a more reasonable pattern for developing mould of technologies.

(2nd September, 2011)