How To Save The World

Does technology go the right way and will it save or ruin our civilization?

Abstract:

It is believed that the human race exists on earth about 200,000 years, first originating in Africa, but now they inhabit every continent, with a total population of over 6.5 billion people as of 2007. In addition, with the humans occupying the planet, natural resources extinct, pollution increases, technology grows. In today's fast paced world, technological progress, changes, and advances are happening everyday. Occasionally, the technological progress, changes, and advances are both good and bad. Furthermore, human race faces extinction threats and issues, which pulls out a question if we can save the world or not. The planet Earth is a massive place; one person cannot possibly make a difference. However, if many people work at making their town safer and healthier the planet as a whole can become safer and better place to live. Since technology has occupied the world and our way of life, there is no chance to get rid of it, and make the world more simple. However, there is a hope for saving ourselves and our planet, if we accept the modern technological progress, use the most of it, and prevent global destruction.

Intro:

With the entrance in the 21st century, technology is developing even more rapidly, and marked progress in almost all fields of science and technology, which has led to massive improvements to the technology we currently possess. The rate of development in computers is only one example at which the speed of progress continues forward, leading to the speculation of a technological spectacle occurring within this century. It can be foreseen that technological progress is going to be the primary factor driving the development of human civilization. When it comes to technology, it is thought as communications, writing systems, telecommunications and mobile phones, animations, broadcasting, radio, radar, satellites, printing, cinema, TV, and finally internet as most advanced one. Therefore, technology continues to change our world each and every day. Every year some new item of technology becomes a part of our everyday life. Technology has made our lives long lasting, more comfortable, and easier. If we were to go without some of the technology we have today life would be terrible with out it. In addition, many of us would not have survived. However, if we let technology to tell us how to act and think, then we might fall under its control. But, with technology in our lives many positive benefits have developed. However, with the advantages there are also negative consequences (disadvantages) that can develop. It is like the old saying, "With every good there come some bad.

Nowadays, when the rapidness of development and research is so impressive, it is easy to think about the advantages of modern technology. Nevertheless, some people argue that science can destroy the humankind. It is also obvious that we are close on an era where technology is limited only by our imagination. Therefore, the most frequently asked question is does technology go the right way and will it save or ruin our civilization? It can be argued a lot about this topic, so briefly, I would just say that there are two sides of each issue. On one hand, there are big disadvantages. As it is clearly presented in the documentary film Baraka, in the past people had very peaceful life, living in the wild, enjoying the beauties of the nature. Today, the world have changed tremendously. Only small portion of the world's population is leaving this way. The continents and its developed and under developing countries are living a life guided by technology. The air is polluted because of the great traffic and fabrics. Person-to-person communication is based on minimum, now we use computers and internet, faxes, or telecommunications (phones) to do that. The wild life is in its extinction. The pure nature is destroyed, buildings are build all over. The machinery is constructed to do people's work. The humans are very addicted to the technological development. In addition, when it comes to technological addiction, such as mobile phones , which provide people-to-people communication/interaction, the teenagers are the biggest target. Health harming is being caused by mobile phones, because there is radiation, which leads to consequences such as headaches, earaches, blurring of vision and even causing cancer. Even though these problems are still under research, mobile phone users are advised to reduce the usage on mobile phones if it is possible. There is also presence of less and less privacy respected with the use of computers and internet. Today, it is very easy for many people to get into your personal computer, e-mail addresses, history of websites used, in order to find out immense number of information, which can be later be used for personal gain. This is also a case with cameras, either mobile phone cameras, computer cameras, and classical cameras, where intimacy is no more respected. What is even more important is that with technological progress there are more and more machinery, there is less need for human labor, which brings poverty, leaves people without jobs, unemployment is growing, but it still does not affect the economy because the progress can be even better and more efficient with the development of the industry. There are less and less farmers, because of the huge use of technological machinery who can perform better for less cost and lower time. This is really affecting many societies and cultures. However, it can be argued that this technological progress can be an advantage for the people, because, computerization is opening new sector of job opportunities. Still, the older generations are being affected because they are not educated in this field. Therefore, one way or another, industrialization and technological expanding do bring great harm to the human population. In addition, it is obvious that technology do implies to people, and it changes their lives tremendously. Even though there are many technological devices that are meant to make life easier and better, such as TV; refrigerator, phones, microwave, washing machine, dishwasher, etc, they are so expensive that not all people can afford, which actually affects peoples economical status. Humankind becomes too affected by the extending of high-tech development, it is present in people's everyday life, globalizing itself throughout the world. Thus, in the present culture the shadowy sides of the scientific-technological development becomes clearer. The technological control motive penetrates and directs the culture. It permeates many, if not all, aspects of society and infiltrates the human experiential world as a matter of course.