If technological development is a great benefit, then what are your glasses for?
Technology - a double-edged sword
Of course, too few of the technological achievements that have been transformed from scientific knowledge are purely evil. The vast majority of them can benefit society as well as jeopardize it by harming people. That's why "double-edged sword" is the most accurate metaphor for them.
The use of scientific inventions for world domination is an example of a "double-edged sword". One of the earliest depictions of a scientific madman was Verne. In "The Master of the World," he depicted Robiel, a madman who was invisible in a crater. He invented the amphibious vehicle as a means of domination. Verne, however, was a loyal elder, and could never get the bad guys right. The image of the "world's master, Robiel" is also very funny.
In Wells's The Invisible Man, Griffin goes on a rampage and calls himself "The Invisible Man". However, he didn't even get to rule a remote English village before the villagers rounded him up and killed him as a monster.
In The Great Dictator, the Soviet writer Belyaev portrayed a typical scientific maniac. German psychologist Stirner, who had long studied the transmission of information between animals, finally invented a device to directly control the minds of others with brain waves. He leaves the scientific world and mixes with the financier Gottlieb, controlling first Gottlieb and his main assistants, then business rivals, and even being able to create stock market turmoil for his profit. Finally, when Steiner's plot was uncovered, he actually used this weapon against the armies of several countries, sending the attacking armies scattering in disbelief. It was only when attacked by their Soviet counterparts with an equivalent weapon that Steiner's plot failed. Soviet scientists, on the other hand, have transformed the apparatus for controlling the minds of others into a tool for the benefit of mankind: it greatly speeds up the transfer of information between individual human beings, coordinates collective labor, and can even make an orchestra free of a conductor.
Nan Yuan Zhao once said that disasters and catastrophes created by moral and religious maniacs have occurred throughout history and abound in reality. Science maniacs, on the other hand, appear only in Hollywood sci-fi horror movies. So, in the late modern period, the people who use science for evil in the writings of science fiction writers are no longer the maniacs who move about trying to control the world. These evildoers want to achieve some more specific, less far-reaching, but more realistic goals with the new technology at hand.
Robin Kirk is best known for his "medical horror" novels. The Death Hormone is one of his science fiction medical horror novels. Death Hormone is a hormone inherent in the human body, secreted by the pituitary gland like growth hormone, but only appears after the secretion of sex hormones stops. Medical scientist Hayes was inspired by Pacific salmon, which die immediately after spawning. Hayes eventually extracted the death hormone trigger from the salmon's head. Injected into the organism, it causes an immediate and massive release of the death hormone.
Hayes works for a large membership health center. A number of successful, middle-aged men join this health center in order to receive lifelong health treatments. However, over a period of time, there are always some middle-aged people who die suddenly. All of them had bad habits of smoking and drinking, but their experiences before entering the health center showed that they were still in normal physical condition. At the time of their deaths, they were all extremely cardiovascularly aged. This list of deaths eventually included Hayes himself. These apparently normal deaths aroused the suspicion of Dr. Jetson. After repeated investigations, he finally discovered that it was Shirley and others at the health center who were secretly administering Hayes' extracted death hormone inducer to these people to make them die sooner, so that they would not be forced to provide free medication in large quantities when these people aged.
At the end of the novel, several book characters directly discuss the good and evil of science and technology on the issue of death hormone, and whether to set up laws to restrain the scientists, so that they can't invent as they wish. This shows that the author was conscious of the good and evil issues of science when he created the book.
The skyscraper was born in the United States at the end of the nineteenth century and soon became a symbol of the combination of technology and wealth. In the second half of the twentieth century, many countries and regions in East Asia joined the skyscraper race, high-rise buildings erected at a rate of "spring" to describe it, I'm afraid it's not too much. The high cost burden and disaster risks brought about by skyscrapers have also become the focus of attention. The novel "Skyscraper Fire" is based on this theme.
When the novel came out, the world's tallest building was the Sears Tower in Chicago. The author fictionalized the new world's tallest building, which was located across the street from the Sears Tower, so that at the end of the novel, the rescue team was able to set up a steel cable between the Sears Tower and the "world's tallest building" to save people. The owner of the World's First Building cuts corners in order to meet the deadline, resulting in overloaded electrical circuits and a dark fire on the day of the opening ceremony. The characteristic "chimney effect" of the skyscraper caused the fire to spread upward, floor by floor, to the top floor. There, hundreds of dignitaries were celebrating. Due to the lack of security and other reasons, by the time the fire was discovered, it was impossible to put it out.
The work's concerns about fire hazards in skyscrapers came through the mouth of the fire chief. After the fire, the fire chief came to the scene, met the architect and questioned the latter, saying, "Why do you build such a high building when you know that the current fire-fighting technology can't do anything about fires above seven floors? And at the end, he said something even more horrible: Today is not bad, only 200 people died. In the future, similar fires will kill thousands of people. Only then will you know what kind of buildings you should build! The movie was filmed in the 1980s, and more than a decade later, this horrific prophecy fell on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, where the Pentagon suffered far fewer casualties than the World Trade Center in the 9/11 attacks. If it weren't for the high-rise buildings, the 9/11 attacks could have been a magnified Lockerbie.
The novel was later adapted into an influential movie with a large cast. Only the novel ended with many people, including the governor, not escaping the fire. The movie, on the other hand, added a brighter ending: rescuers blew up a water tank on the roof of the building and doused the blaze. But that wasn't reality. Water from a rooftop water tower is really a drop in the bucket for a roaring fire like the one on 9/11.
In 1972, mankind crossed the threshold of genetically modified technology at Stanford University. It unleashed an almost limitless possibility: mixing genes from different species according to human needs to create new species not found in nature. As soon as gene technology came out, it was immediately applied to agricultural technology, creating a large number of new species. While they have provided high-yielding crops, they have also created a major storm of acceptance and resistance against GM crops. A not-so-distant fiasco in Wuhan, where farmers destroyed a GM experimental field, illustrates that this wave of resistance has now blown into the country. The short sci-fi book "Act for Heaven" is based on GM crops.
In this novel, the American MSD Biological Company invested two billion dollars to develop the "Magic King strain" of wheat. It is high-yielding, disease-resistant and of excellent quality. In order to prevent farmers from keeping the harvested wheat seeds, MSD mixed in the genes of the Magic Wheat with a toxic protein gene that causes infertility. This way, any second-generation wheat seeds will not be able to grow without a special solvent that the company has secretly mastered to inhibit the toxic protein gene. As a means of protecting its intellectual property, this was no excuse, and a low-level MSD employee was responsible for marketing it to the Shaanxi region of China. The first year's harvest was so good that the next year, some farmers secretly kept it in their fields, resulting in the loss of a large portion of their wheat fields. Although MSD had done a lot of preventive research, the suicide gene spread to other wheat varieties due to the transportation function of some special viruses. The black death wheat spread plague-like.
An interesting example of "bad science" about grain is Grain of Life. Belyaev's scientist, Broyles, is not only harmless, he doesn't even have a business agenda like MSD. He cultivates a single-celled organism that can obtain nutrients directly from the air, expand itself, and can be eaten directly, becoming the "grain of immortality". However, instead of solving the problem of hunger, this "grain of immortality" led to the bankruptcy of farmers and aggravated the economic crisis. In the end, when summer came, the temperature was favorable and the "eternal grain" grew rapidly, covering one piece of land after another and becoming a man-made disaster.
Since the emergence of Internet technology in the 1970s, it has been spreading around the world in an explosive manner. Among the people I know, none of those who have been on the Internet would choose never to touch it again. It has become a way of working and a way of life for many people. But the internet has also made many people addicted and its captive. Today, the problem of Internet addiction has become a new educational issue. According to the author's observation, there have been a large number of Internet addicts among adults, only that they are independent and responsible, unlike teenagers who have guardians to reflect the problem to public opinion.
In the short sci-fi novel "The Lotus-colored Dandelion," Xinghe describes a future world where Internet addiction is common. In this era, not too far from the present, Internet addiction is already a serious social problem, even requiring mandatory withdrawal. As with today's drug rehabs, there are prisons for internet addiction within the justice system. The novel is a frightening portrayal of the reactions to Internet addiction: the inversion of day and night, the inability to practise one's profession, the difficulty of communicating with others, the obsessive search for Internet access tools everywhere, and even the use of prison riots to resist compulsory withdrawal. What's more, the author's use of the first person, telling the story from the point of view of an Internet addict, superbly demonstrates the dangers of Internet addiction. The severe physical reactions depicted in the novel are more or less already present in some Internet addicts today.
The author also envisions concrete measures for a future society to force Internet addiction to be broken: first of all, the addicts should be basically taken off the Internet, which is mandatory and backed by law. Of course, in order to keep them from having a mental breakdown, there would be limited access to the Internet under surveillance. Then the addicts are forced to participate in heavy exercise activities. The physical condition of a person who sits in front of a computer for years is quite deteriorated. In addition, the addict is forced to read books printed on paper to gradually get rid of their dependence on the computer.
In 1928, a serendipitous phenomenon in a laboratory, coupled with the prepared mind of Fleming, a British medical doctor, helped mankind enter the age of antibiotics. Today, antibiotics have become the usual weapon of choice for doctors. However, the misuse of antibiotics has led to an increase in bacterial resistance and the formation of new medical problems. The full-length sci-fi "Life and Death Balance" depicts this topic. Although the author, Wang Jinkang, has long been well known in the sci-fi community, it is largely because of this novel that he has come to the attention of the public outside the sci-fi community, as it deals with a thorny issue at the forefront of today's science and technology.
The novel is set in the Middle East and depicts the story of a certain military megalomaniac who unleashes bacterial warfare on a neighboring country. A parallel thread is the Huangfu family's research into "balanced medicine". As a fictional element in the novel, balanced medicine itself is not important, but the author uses this element to tell the story of his concern about the misuse of antibiotics. Through the mouth of Huangfu Yushan, a medical fanatic, the author writes: "Drug-resistant strains of bacteria are developing like a flood, and even common germs such as E. coli and dysentery bacilli have drug-resistant strains, which are not helped by antibiotics. Penicillin dosages for sepsis have been increased from tens of thousands of units to tens of millions of units, but the mortality rate is still back to the level it was before antibiotics were introduced." Science Fiction World 97, 5, 15.
The author even fictionalized a case of a patient with renal failure disorder. This was a high-ranking family member. It was because of her position and ability to use new, good drugs in large quantities that she fell into the trap of antibiotic abuse over a period of twenty years. The author uses a long medical record to describe how she was "sick and sick" step by step, and was eventually surrounded by drugs to a horrible end.
At the end of the novel, the mutant pathogens that are constantly racing against the antibiotics have a collective outbreak, creating a plague that spreads across the world
Good morning, teachers and students, on the question of whether the development of science and technology is a greater benefit or a greater disadvantage, the consensus of our friends is that it is more beneficial than detrimental.
The way of life of human beings will not change much from 200,000 years ago to 100,000 years ago, from 3,000 years ago to 2,000 years ago, and from 600 years ago to 500 years ago. However, present-day people and ancient people have in fact long been different from what they were in the past, and even now, compared with 100 years ago, they are completely different. What drives the development of human history? What started mankind on a new way of being?
I say, this is science and technology, is the development of science and technology to promote the process of human beings, is the development of science and technology to make human beings have this new and beautiful life. Throughout the ages, which dynasty and which generation did not attach importance to the development of science and technology? Looking back, look at the four great inventions, unique; look at the astronomical calendar, marveled at; look at the Zhaozhou Arch Bridge, the design is exquisite; peep "Materia Medica", the Oriental canon; look at the value of pi, seven decimal; look at the Silk Road, the development of the economy; end of the blue and white porcelain, famous overseas. Scientific and technological development is the road to strength, scientific and technological development is the first driving force for the progress of the Chinese nation, no science, where we are today's happy life? Without science and technology, where we have a comfortable material life and spiritual enjoyment? Without the progress of science and technology, how can we eat the hybrid two? How can we wear cotton clothes, how can we live in high-rise buildings?
Ask, the development of science and technology benefits or disadvantages? There is no doubt, of course, is the benefit! What is the explanation? There is no need to explain! Chinese civilization eight thousand years of history and civilization is ironclad, history is changing every moment, technology is developing every moment. Human beings have learned to utilize or cook food from the primitive life of drinking blood and hair, from relying on nature to breeding and raising, from unarmed iron to metallurgy and stone smelting, isn't this all progress, isn't this all development? If the disadvantages outweigh the advantages, then why do human beings still coincidentally choose progress? Only progress can make tomorrow better!
A person who does not make progress is pathetic, a country that does not make progress is downtrodden, a world that does not make progress is dark. Only in continuous progress can human life be sublimated. Man is small, man is fragile, he does not have a huge body, no ox-like strength, no turtle's hard shell. But God gave mankind a smart brain, a pair of hard-working hands, mankind did not sit back and enjoy the success, but chose to continue to progress, can only stand in the top of the food chain today.
Let's compare today's life with that of 100,000 years ago, we are supreme; compare today with that of thousands of years ago, we are condescending; compare today with that of hundreds of years ago, we are happy and comfortable; compare today with that of tomorrow, the future is bright and beautiful. Thousands of years, from the horse-drawn carriage into cars, trains, airplanes; from kerosene lamps into incandescent lamps, neon lamps, energy-saving lamps; from the ends of the earth into the near at hand, video chatting, a little bit of the mouse to know the world.
We are happy, we are lucky, we caught up with a high-speed development of science and technology, an era full of high-tech, it is not only our ancestors in the evolution of the choice of development, choice of progress, but also includes all the unremitting efforts, hard work, how many of us today's day when the hard-working scientists with the wisdom of the even life in exchange.
Technology has changed history, we explore the development of science and technology, the advantages or disadvantages are not to be questioned, because it is the advantages! The advantages of the big! The advantages and disadvantages of the development of science and technology are not to be questioned! You say that the development of science and technology has brought about atmospheric pollution, you say that the development of science and technology has produced white trash, you say that the development of science and technology has formed a warming of the temperature ...... All things cannot be perfect, the brighter the place behind the shadow of the darker, but on the basis of these you conclude that the development of science and technology has done more harm than good? "The world is different things are different" times are different, the problems encountered are also different, and then say the air pollution, the provinces and cities have launched a preventive plan; white trash, unified treatment; automobile exhaust caused by warming scientists have also developed solar-powered cars. Look at now, solar water heaters, solar air conditioning, solar batteries ...... environmentally friendly and economical solar energy has gradually entered thousands of households, this is not technology in development?
While there are drawbacks, but compared to the benefit of mankind, environmental protection homes of the concept of scientific and technological development, irrelevant, as long as there are drawbacks, scientists will likewise find a way to solve, we can not choke on food, the pace of scientific and technological development will not stop for a moment. Scientific and technological development, there is no excuse, is the benefit of the big, the only answer to this question! Just because technology has been progressing, science has been developing, cunning sophistry, generalized words, unreasonable nonsense can not change this truth. If you say that technological advances do more harm than good, ask, can you go a week without coming to class in a car, without using a neutral pen, without using a ballpoint pen, without using a fountain pen? Can you go a week without watching TV, listening to the news, reading a newspaper, reading a book, or surfing the Internet? Can you go a week without eating the hybrid rice you developed? No pasta? No drinks? Can't can't, you can't and can't be able to, because technology is already closely related to you, already inseparable from you! In ask, if you write a letter to the President, said that the proposal to stop all scientific research activities, everyone is to give you flowers, or that board special pat you?
Technology changes history, good, without the development of science and technology, our lives are unimaginable, our days are dark, is the development of science and technology to save us, is the science of our rescue from the age of fire and water. We should respect him with a heart of reverence, how can we say that the development of science and technology is full of disadvantages?
Technology changes history, knowledge changes destiny. We have entered the 21st century, into an era full of high-tech. Science has changed our lives, science has changed our destiny. "Knowledge is power", our Chinese people **** and the country, 1.3 billion people of the great country, why can the world in front of the chest up? Because our technology is constantly developing! Our science and technology in constant progress!
The benefits of technological development outweigh the disadvantages, which is an unchanging theme!