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A Question for a Research Project

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The future of the human race is essentially hanging int he balance. What are your views on the following question? View table of contents...

 

Submitted: Mar 7, 2008    Reads: 61    Comments: 2    Likes: 0   


My name is Thomas Williams. As part of an on-going research project on the effects of technology on society and the human species as a whole, I would be very grateful if you could answer the following question in as much detail as possible.
Do you believe that recent, rapid advances in both technology and biotechnology are resulting an in increased dependency upon them by society and so could ultimately lead to the collapse of civilisation, or possibly even the extinction of the human race?
 
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Well, i think your on the wrong site mate, but i'll humour you!

Umm, you could say that there is a more noticable dependancy on a few individuals in the field mentioned above. I think, to answer the question, I'd say: no, or no way near to that extent.

I don't know if this is relevant (in my view it is), in the news recently, there has been reports of biologists wanting to fuse animal and human embryo's for 'research.'

You could say that, in the future, this type of technology, if allowed to proceed, could be far too advanced for normal citizens (e.g. me!) to fully understand the ethical consequences.

QED?


I'd be grateful if you'd take the time to look at my work 'the silencer' which is, to some extent, similar.

Posted: Mar 24, 2008

i think this might be too late for my reply, but here goes nothing.
yes, i believe that this could happen. People are so Dependant on their gadgets, if not physically they are mentally. They feel like they "need" to have their technology to make their lives complete. If they don't have something they feel inferior and weak. But people have been surviving for years before all this new technology arrived. So with all this dependency i think that people can get so Dependant that if it were to be taken away, they would be alone and lost, they would have nothing left and therefore result in their deaths. I think society itself would collapse, but i believe that there are people out there who will continue to live, those who really have the will to live.

Posted: Mar 29, 2008

Author Comment:

Thanks! No, you're not too late. You're actually one of the few people who bothered to respond, and about the only decent answer i got. I sent this around all my teachers as well, but they still haven't replied.

Thanks. This is going into my project so quickly it'll make my head spin.



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