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Dilemma of Technology

Senin, 28 November 2011 17.29



I'm not going to write about a love dilemma like some teenagers usually do or about SMAN 8 Tangerang, I knew that you're fed up with it though I still have to write 4 more posts about SMAN 8 Tangerang. So, I'm going to write about dilemma of technology.

You’re looking a bit rough. See, in the old days, you’d have cycled to get to school or to meet your friend that's 7 km away from your house . Proves my point, eh? ‘His point, an angkot's philosopher, was that our quality of life was shooting downhill thanks to technology. He said that to a young woman who's sitting next to him. I didn't mean to eavesdrop the conversation between them. I bet that everyone could have heard them talking, it's a bit loud. 

Would it have been churlish to point out any of three things? 1: without technology he’d have no car to drive; 2: he wouldn't get money cause he wouldn't have a car to drive; and 3: my quality of life would be immeasurably improved if he’s be quiet and stops talking loudly. Churlish indeed, particularly since the bulk of the population would certainly agree with him. Technology needs PR.



Even before Little Boy wiped out a Japanese city, our abuse and misuse of technology has provided myriad ways of wiping planet earth of our presence.  This is the technological dilemma faced by western society- on the one hand, the overdependence of life in industrial countries on technology, and, on the other, the threat that that technology will destroy the quality of life in modern society and even endanger society itself. Technology thus confronts Western civilisation with the need to make a decision, or rather than destructively. In a nutshell, we need to do something while the problems presented by rapid technological growth can still be solved. I will consider three of these problems.

The technological problems associated with nuclear power are being ignored while we fixate about the bomb. The solution to that problem is political not technological. Technology cannot be blamed for a world political system based upon sovereign nation-states and supra-national power blocs. Here, as elsewhere, technology is a tool that can be used creatively or destructively. But the manner of its use depends entirely on human decisions and governments. The aspects that technology should be addressing, such as the disposal of radioactive waste and the quest to harness the energy released by fusion, are being sidelined. The answers are there. Technology could provide them. But we’re leaving it for future generations. This isn’t technological abuse. It’s technological under-use.

Assuming that nuclear catastrophe can be averted, world civilisation will have to come to grips with the population problem if life is to remain tolerable on the planet. The problem can be tackled in two ways, both drawing on the resources of modern technology in the first place, efforts must be made to limit the rate of population increase. Medical technology has provided a powerful impulse to the increase of population but it also offers the means of controlling this increase.  Again, technology is a tool that is neutral in respect to moral issues about its own use, but it would be futile to deny that artificial population control is inhibited by powerful moral constraints and taboos. Reconciliation of these conflicts is essential if stability in world population is to be satisfactorily achieved. Where is the will to do this? If technology is to provide any answer, marked must first be prepared to address the appropriate questions, but mankind has too many self-serving agendas.

In the second place, no matter what the success of any population control programme. An attempt must be made simultaneously to increase the world’s production of food. Technology has much to contribute, both in raising the productivity of existing sources of food supply by improved techniques of agriculture, and better types of grain and animal stock, and in creating new sources of food by making the deserts fertile and by systematically farming the riches of the oceans. There’s enough work here to keep technologists busy for many generations. And are they hard at work? Oh yes, because in this area technology serves the great god profit.

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