1. The lecturer names several inventions from after the Industrial Revolution. Which ones do you consider to be true milestones when examined from a perspective covering many thousands of years of technological advances?
2. Do you believe that some areas of technological research and development should be limited or prohibited? If so, which ones? Why?
1.In my opinion, the true milestones is the PC which totally change our lives and improve the speed of our revolutions. Though its effect, many things in our lives have been changed. For example, the speed on calculate numbers, in this way, scientist increase their speed on research. Therefore, our technology has been improved more and more fast.
ReplyDelete2. Yes. For instance, human being clones. We should prohibit it because it breaks the human ethic and destroy the nature law of death. This situation may cause some bad results. Furthermore, if there are clone people, how can we identify who is who.
In short, clone for hunman being should be prohibited.
1.I think the Airplane is a milestone, it has been changing our life in many ways. First,it's faster than any other transportation, in ancient times,if people want to go to other country, the transportation is ship, they have to spend several days, even a month to get the destination,but now, we have the airplane, we just spend several hours can arrive.so we have saved much time.the second thing is the airplane provide many funs for our life.we can take a short vacation by airplane.Finally,it can deliver many things os that the problems may be solved in time.for example,when Tsunami in Indian Ocean made many casualties, other countries could send food and first supply by planes.
ReplyDelete2,I think the nuclear power should be banned,because it's unsafe and dangerous. If the toxic leak, it could endanger people lives and the whole world. so I think it's a harmful thing for the world.
1. A “computer” can be considered as the true milestone. According to the lecture, I realized that before the invention of the computer, people needed to spend very long time in order to create new technologies. However, since the computer was invented, new technologies have been created more frequently. The major reason is that the computer can lessen the calculation’s time incredibly, which means the new scientific knowledge can be developed within a shorter period of time. The latest innovation for today may not be the latest innovation for tomorrow, and that makes the world become more exciting and more enjoyable place.
ReplyDelete2. Deadly weapons, such as chemical and biological weapons, should not be further developed because they are too dangerous for human beings. Not only can they kill hundred thousand people each time, but they can also poison people. Their effect may be unstoppable and derive to the next generation. Moreover, such noxious weapons can damage the environment in the wide areas including air, water, and land.
1. Many of inventions are milestone contribution. Automobiles are one of them that have made an implicit turning point in human being's life. Automobiles made travel more convenience and faster than it was in the ancient time. It was travelling that people used to discover the new land, make cultural exchanges, and trade which lead to civilization. Moreover, automobiles are fundamental idea for further developing of the new transportational system. Nowsaday, automobiles are the majority vehicles used wordwide, and they are easy to access. Almost every families have their own cars. People drive to work both in small and big cities.
ReplyDelete2. The Technological research that are danger to human's life and unethical should be limited. These kind of researches are found in many areas such as medical field, aggriculture, physic and engineering. It is interesting for the scientist to conduct research that interest them; however, their prolific works have both positive and negative effect. For example, nuclear energy have been used to produce electricity as well as nuclear bomb.
1.- The invention of the car is -for me- the best technological advance since the Industrial Revolution. Telephone, lighting bulb, otherwise are also amazing, but the car has been and still being not just useful but indispensable for people. I think the car is the best means of transportation because of its convinience, price, use, people consider it as part of their status or quality of life, etc.
ReplyDelete2.- I can't take a definite position with this question because I think those kind of researchs have positive and negative consequences. Some positives: they make life easy, they help people (in a larger number of situation, especially in medical advances), they avoid people waste time... Some negatives: they fracture relationships between people, they keept away people from their context, they could deshumaniazed people's feeling and emotions. So, before support one side of this social question it's important evaluates two sides of the coin.