blog 7)-"Mr. Seto"-"Wei Wenbo"-"We are too slow"

  Science and technology are developing, which not only scientists but also we could detect in our daily lives. We could feel their fast developing just by touching our iPhone or iPad, and watching 3D or even 4D movies. We do appreciate what science has brought to us, but at the same time we could feel that we are too slow to catch up the development of it.

  The Internet is one of the examples that our paces in morality, value, and laws. The Internet minimizes the globe into a village, merging various cultures in an extremely high speed which we could not imagine. The Internet provides us a wonderful platform to exchange information, bettering our understanding other cultures as well as contributing to conflicts. We are benefited by social networking perhaps because we thought it is convenient to keep touch with people. But someone might say that we are actually taken advantaged by the technology itself, because our private information could be leaked in this way. And crimes in new forms have also appeared in this “perfect” platform, giving those legislators a big headache. Thus I could say it in this way: we enjoy it on the surface, but in fact we suffer.

  I think the biological technology is another example. It seems that we human beings are trying very hard to give ourselves longer, better, and healthier lives. In other words, we are trying to challenge the rules and breaking the balance set by nature. We invent new protein to satisfy our requirements in medicine, design our babies with those qualities we want them to own, and even try to colon ourselves to extend our existence. Our greed might leave us in trouble. We might not see it at present, but we do see it in some movies such as rise of the planet of the apes which somehow predict our future with new technology used.

  I do not mean that we should stop the study of the new technology to better our life because of the potential threats. However, I am concerned that sometimes we have not evaluated the side effects properly, or in some cases we are too positive or too negative about them. We must think twice before we step further.