Technology: Is It Good Or Bad? Essay, Research Paper

Technology: Is it Good or Bad?

Matthew Fox is the president of the University of Creation Spirituality and co-director of the Naropa Institute’s program in creation spirituality. Fox states his distorted views of what the world is coming to in an article called Kosovo, Columbine, and Evil. These are the views of a radical who thinks many of the accomplishments of our time are destroying us as a society. Fox mentions that the earth is destroying itself by its technological culture. Technology has improved the way of life for all and it is the only way we will survive. The benefits from our technological achievements can not be measured. I am not advocating pollution but some things must be sacrificed for our, greatest of importance, our struggle to advance.

Since the beginning of time, the goal of a civilization was to improve their way life. Improvement means to change things for the better. Technology helps with this change. Form the Aztecs to the Egyptians you can see that both of them, over time, developed into great technological cultures. Both cultures have technological marvels. The Aztec’s have their great temples and the Egyptians have the marvelous pyramids. Their society and culture had flourished for many years with the technologies they created. Until the last hundred and fifty years we were unable to replicate these structures.

If people always thought about the environment and nature above the advancement of humans, we would not have vacancies to cure or prevent disease. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) have been irritating researchers for many years. We must sacrifice a few for the whole. In the Holy Bible it says that animals were created for food. Food is essential for our survival so therefore we should be able to use them in experiments for our benefit.

You can see technology being used everywhere for a means of improving survival. Students study for a long time to become doctors who save and find new medicines to improve our lives. Firemen are trained on high tech machines and use high tech machines to save lives. We try to be the best at our field of work because we want to receive the highest of income, this holds true for many people but not all. The higher the income the better one can live because they can afford the technologies. There are many examples to show how technology and survival are intertwined within each other but the most important improvement in our lifetime is the personal computer.

The ramifications of computers in our society are unimaginable. Computers posses the ability to educate people from simple reading and math to complex medical problems and space explorations. Computers educate individuals in such a way that it improves their life by learning about health issues or by gaining important skills that will help them out in the work force.

Technology has a tremendous positive side but it does have a slight negative side. Since the American industrial revolution, man has polluted the earth more in the last hundred years than any other time in history. We have been very destructive and irresponsible in the ways we treat our land but we have definitely changed our bad habits. From companies dumping their toxic waste into our lakes, that contaminate our drinking waters, to fast food restaurants using styrofoam, which aren’t biodegradable, society had heard the cry’s of nature. There have been federal mandates for policy changes in the amount of pollution that is sent out as trash. The only reason we have done such a bad job in taking care of the environment is because we lacked the knowledge of how we were affecting the earth and how to go about to change it. True there has been some irreversible damage to the earth but it pales in comparison to the amount of positive achievements we have made. With the great advancement in technologies has also produced many items that are now helping the clean up of our lands.

There will always be drawbacks to ever technology created by man. Man created fire for warmth and light. It then was used for a weapon. We must always monitor all advancements we make or they will harm us. The invention of computers has paved the way to the internet. That has paved the way for many young children to have access to pornography. Yes, this can be considered an evil devise but with proper care it can be a very important tool.

Our society becomes more and more advance every year. We have gain valuable knowledge of how the world works and how we can go about using its resources to save nature and us. As technology evolves so will we with it. We are learning to cherish the gifts it has given us and devising news ways to keep it clean. For heavens sakes we have no other place to live so we have no other alternative but to take care of it properly.