Ethics of Society Technology and the Environment

Ethics of Society, Technology, And the Environment

Ethics of Society, Technology and Environment

Being the member of the human society in 21st century is like to be the witness of the breathtaking technological revolution. Society, technology and environment are the three vertices of a same triangle and hence connected to each other. As a result they tend to have inter-related influences and affects. With the advancements and immense developments in the fields of science and technology, the life particularly in 21st century has taken an almost new turn. The glance on the ancient or earlier times would prove that, the life then, was completely different.

By ethics we mean, those specific standards which determine the functioning of the system for which they are defined. Ethics of society, technology and environment are thus those set generalized standards for the safety and preservation of the environment and nature along with the technological advancements. According to them, the impact of technology should be more beneficial rather harmful for both the creatures and the physical factors of this planet earth. There is a defined rule for the extent to which you can modify the nature and it is known as "possiblism." There is another theory "determinism" that no matter how intelligent the man and his inventions are, the nature do have its effects on the human lifestyle and he can't totally evade them. Both the theories work simultaneously (Keogh, July).

Different scientists have been the determining the future of this planet and the human entity in their labs. The research suggests that in 21st century, the time isn't that far when the humans would be served with robots. In Physics of the Future, Michio Kaku has taken interviews from numerous scientists about their expectations and predictions about the future of the earth owing to the technological impact (Kaku, 2011). Almost all agree to the same point-of-view that medicine, computers, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, energy production, and astronautics, everything will be revolutionized. The cars would float on the air cushion, the robots would take the duties of the maids and servants, the ting DNA chips would scan the human bodies, advancements in genetics would introduce the reverse ageing system and all that. But the fact the environment, nature and this planet is after all going to be a victim in a way or other. Only illustrating one example; since it is the only habitat where everybody resides in and it has to give the asylum a billion others who born every second. Consequently, the population explosion has pushed the man to inhabit the oceans and experimentations are still going on to make this selfish and commercial idea successful (McKibben, 2004). Man completely ignores the rights of other creatures who inhabit this planet when it comes to his interest. Now, it is not hard to expect that the way they have strangulated the terrestrial part would certainly make the oceanic bodies to end up in critical yet severely polluted conditions. The effect on the aquatic life is another debate. Technology would no doubt get mature but the victim ought not to be the nature or else it would go against the so called environmental and technological ethics (Teich, 2008).

Society and humans are always inter-related for they are formed by the humans and likewise the modifications. As a result, the society has its impacts on the people. The society would use the technology and obviously affect the environment and atmosphere. It is out of the question for a human to sit aside and say no to every new invention which is presented every day. Since he is an animal who loves luxury without the hard work so he can't really resist, humans as an entity shares the same genome and that is eternal/non changeable. But as a matter of fact, these wonderful inventions are for his ease and he would never compromise on anything which is likely to harm him in far or near future. He has that major or the central place in the society and he always works to preserve it hence he has certain concerns regarding the technological advancements. For, all of them revolve around his interest, use, like, dislike, need and luxury but one can't deny the fact that he is selfish too. He is selfish for his own self and does not think about his future generations as if he is the last one. One dark phase of these exhilarating inventions is that, the next generations would have golden spoon in the mouth when born. They would already have everything so they are not likely to think or hard work like his ancestors did. Getting anything won't be a real problem. The technology is therefore putting the full stops to the amazing functioning of the human brain. By nature we also mean "the nature" of human species.

Generally, the ethics are made owing to the fact the system should keep working in the normal pace but should get improved whenever a new thing is invented without any considerable damage but apparently this concept rules out here when it comes to the environment-technology. For the time being you can consider them working and beneficial but not in a longer run. They are somehow violated if we associate the consequences over the next 100 years.