With all the extensive advanced devices, people are able to illegally exploit technology leading to unethical and damaging consequences. For example, when scientists were able to genetically clone a sheep named Dolly. While this revealed a scientific breakthrough, this also raised many issues on people’s morals and religious beliefs. Furthermore, women are able to conceive a baby through IVF. Again, this created problems with maternity and other biologically factors. On the other hand, abortion is widely available as a means of terminating pregnancy. Once again, this emphasizes our wide range of technology that we can exploit yet it questions our moral obligations as a human being on dealing with life forms.
Furthermore, we are sacrificing future generations by not acting sustainably towards our environment. The many industrial productions are constantly polluting the atmosphere, land and sea, thus placing people’s health at risk. Moreover, the extensive use of automobiles has contributed to this pollution, congestion and in some extreme cases produced acid rain. Marine and land animals have also suffered at the hands of our technological world.
In another sense, technology has developed many destructible weapons that have been used in wars, hence resulting in many lost lives. On a smaller scale, fire arms and other dangerous devices are widely distributed and used commonly to conflict grievous bodily harm. Again, this highlights the danger of technology.
Another important issue in society is the increasing number of people using the Internet to commit crimes such as fraud and stealing peoples’ identities. As a result, many people have been the victims of online spammers. To a lesser extent, email and instant messaging has offered a new perspective for exploiting and harassing people. Also, people are increasingly taking advantage of illegal downloading which creates a problem for film and music industries. Furthermore, private accounts and systems are capable of being hacked into, proving how risky technology can be.
In conclusion, although modern technology has improved our standard of living it has also harmed our environment and detoriated the quality of life to a far greater extent. Hence, the society must be aware of the possible ramifications they might face so that they can avoid those problems in the future by not being overly dependent on technology, treating it as a mere aid in life, and not life itself.
