What are the two sides of technology? The duality of technology means that technology not only has positive value to meet human needs and benefit mankind, but also brings certain crises, hidden dangers and even disasters to mankind. As a nature, "technology has two sides" is universal and inevitable, that is, it is not an individual or accidental phenomenon. So we must attach importance to it, understand it, find ways to overcome it and reduce its harm. This is also the fundamental purpose of our research on "the two sides of technology". 2. Why does technology have two sides? Technology has positive value. This is determined by the purpose of technology. There is no technology without purpose and practical value in the world. We made a special introduction to this point. This paper mainly analyzes how the negative effects of technology are produced. There is a view that technology, as a tool and object used by human beings, has neither a positive side nor a negative side. The key depends on who uses technology and what is the purpose of using it. Based on this view, people call the "two sides" phenomenon of technology "two sides of technology application". Some "general technology" textbooks are written like this, and so are many articles on the Internet. However, the negative impact of technology is not entirely caused by people using technology. Let's look at a few examples. 1978 on the afternoon of may19, thousands of Americans suddenly found that their pagers and mobile phones could not send or receive signals. When they turned on the TV, there was a snowflake. Many people are afraid. Is World War III about to break out? Did aliens attack the earth? People are in chaos. In fact, it is neither, but a low-orbit satellite of Pan American Satellite Communications Company-Yinhe 4 deviated from its normal position and could not transmit information to its service area, resulting in 27 million people being isolated from information. Doctors stay in the hospital and don't go home in order not to affect the emergency needs. If you can't swipe your card when you refuel, you have to queue up for cash. When a satellite flies in space, it will be disturbed by many factors, including meteors and space junk. The high temperature of the sun will also damage the data and instruments of satellites, so it is inevitable that satellites will fail in space. As for when and on which satellite the fault occurred? This may be accidental, but failure is inevitable-it can be said that the "uncontrollable" working environment of the technical system determines the inevitability of the negative impact of technology. Another example is nuclear power technology. The nuclear power plant designed according to the specified standards is expected to have an accident exceeding 10 only once every 300 years, so it is very safe. But it still does not rule out the probability of accidents. The Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the former Soviet Union was an inevitable accident. The accident caused more than 8 tons of high-level radioactive materials to leak, and the area of 1 1,000 square kilometers was contaminated by radioactivity. It will take 1 1,000 years to eliminate the impact. The accident was caused by fire, which is also the negative impact of the technical system on the environment. Let's take a look at the plane accident. According to statistics, the accident rate of airplanes is far less than that of other means of transportation, but air crashes still occur from time to time. Why? Because aircraft is a complex system composed of thousands of other components, the performance of these other components will always change, thus affecting the coordination of the system, so accidents are inevitable-this is determined by the complexity of the technical system. Y2K problem of computer. This was in the 1960s. In order to save storage space, people used two digits to represent the year. There was no problem at that time. However, when the time is exaggerated from 1 99965438+February 3 1 to 65438+1October1in 2000, the computer will misjudge 2000 as 65438. It may even lead to financial paralysis. Just such a small sigh cost people $654.38+000 billion-which can be attributed to the lag (limitation) of human understanding. The above examples show that the working environment of technical equipment, the complexity of technical system and the limitations of human understanding determine that technology itself has a fragile side, which is the internal cause of its inevitable negative effects. Therefore, I personally agree with our textbook that technology has two sides. Some negative effects of science and technology are man-made. Such as the threat of nuclear war, the proliferation of online pornography, and "hacker" sabotage. According to the data, there are 654.38+07 million people in the United States with hacking technology, and they will pose a threat to people all the time. There are also greedy plundering of nature for self-interest or small group interests, causing ecological damage and so on. 3. How to treat the duality of technology? From the philosophical point of view of "one divides into two", everything has two sides. However, there must be one side that is dominant, which determines the basic characteristics of things. A useful technical project or product, as long as it is valuable, even if there are some crises and hidden dangers, we still need to use it. This is our correct attitude towards two sides. 4. With the rationality and wisdom of human beings, we can certainly find a solution to the dual nature of technology and create a better tomorrow. Environment and ecology have been recognized by human beings. Implement the development strategy of "sustainable development"; 1999 At the Budapest World Science Conference, scientists proposed that. Science is not for war, not for commercial profit, but for the benefit of society. They also put forward the principles that the cause of human peace is paramount, science must fully serve peace, respect human dignity and rights, abide by the human genome and the Declaration of Human Rights, respect and protect other life forms and ecosystems on earth, and scientific knowledge should be shared and disseminated fairly and reasonably. We have every reason to believe that when these demands and principles become people's knowledge, mankind will certainly create a better tomorrow with science and technology.
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