WRITING AND EVALUATING YOUR OWN ARGUMENT

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26 August 2010

Modern technology is enhancing social life

Technology is indispensable in solving modern problems , enhancing social life and ensuring a better future (Diamond 240 . Technology is the application of scientific knowledge to reach among others industrial and commercial objectives of an organization or a society . It has cultural organizational and technical aspects (Freeman and Francisco 142 Technology has become a powerful tool that is being used to improve social life and solve human problems like poverty and deceases . In

br addition , technology has increased the power of human beings to control and manipulate nature thereby enhancing our ability to adapt to the environment (Global Scenario Group Report 19

Despite all the benefits of technology , it has negative side effects like unemployment . It is therefore important to assess dangers and promises of a technology in order to formulate safeguards to eliminate its negative impacts or its misuse . It is also important to put limits on some technologies like biotechnology so as to harness their full potential without lowering the dignity of human beings (Freeman and Francisco 327

Discussion

There are many areas in which technology impact positively in the society . The globalization of the internet for example , has extended and empowered the human network (Cisco Systems E25 . It has changed positively the manner in which social , political , commercial and personal interactions are occurring . The internet presents a platform on which businesses can be run , emergencies can be addressed and individuals can be...