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Positive and Negative Engineering
Summary of "For Both Positive and Negative Engineering"
Are we justified in using genetic engineering to create one type of person over another? This is the complex question addressed by the author in the article. The two fundamental issues raised by positive engineering are whether we are justified in attempting to change human nature, and whether genetic engineering is an acceptable means of achieving this change. The author asks, since negative changes are made regarding genes and positive changes are made to environments, why positive changes should not be made at the genetic level. The author aimed to address the different sources and reasons for resistance to the idea of positive engineering, as well as to focus on the justifiable doubts to this concept.
One of the key reasons people may be resistant to the positive engineering is an objection to "playing God." Determining what characteristics humans should have could be viewed as something...
Others may have a resistance to messing with natural selection, in which humanity contains certain characteristics due to the promotion of genetic survival.
The author suggests that beyond the objections mentioned above, there is a general resistance to a limited and fallible group of people making such consequential decisions, and a general opposition to an extreme concentration of power.
The concept of the "genetic supermarket" challenges the idea that any type of centralized decision making must occur with regards to positive engineering. This type of system would cater to the genetic specifications of prospective parents. Allowing parents to choose characteristics for children would result in more variety than in a centrally controlled system. However the issue arises that some parental decisions would be disturbing. This would create changes that would be unfavourable. The author emphasizes the need for some…
Both conditions of the type of cargo and the volume of passengers and goods moving through the port itself. From the centrality view point, the port works as a hub on a wheel. This method of understanding posits that the port is the center of economic activity, and that the spokes of the wheel, or forms of intermodal transportation, should be developed as a function of the port's existence.
Negative Effects of Off shoring on the U.S. Economy Globalization and technological advancements over the last couple of decades have shifted the ways of many facets of life, which include the ways of doing businesses and its impact on the economies. Off shoring (preferably termed as outsourcing) is one of the widespread terms that have not only emerged as a result of globalization but have come under extensive utilization by the
This type of system has effectively integrated technology into the classrooms in these school districts with uniform accessibility for all students as well as district-wide implementation of software. The centralized management in this system provides a central point of control as well as updates and backups for all users. The network is secure and protected from viruses and it takes fewer personnel to manage the network. The innovation of accessibility
positive and negative impacts of DNA microarrays, Genetic engineering and cloning on the society, environment and the living beings. In the past years, people have heard much about the biological revolution and they have seen it coming too. Biology, with its modern discoveries, has not only influenced agriculture, medicine and economy but it has affected the nature of man as well. In today's era, where both, biology and technology are
controversy with regard to genetic engineering and the exact effects it has on the social order. Some people consider this domain to provide the world as a whole with a window for opportunity while others believe that it goes against everything that mankind stands for. The clinical benefits associated with such technology are downright impressive and it is very probable that it is going to have a particularly positive
Dr. Hayden believes the reason for this change at the school level is due to greater recruitment efforts, financial and academic support, and more women role models to provide encouragement. Dr. Hayden sees a similar situation happening in the engineering field. Dr. Lin, a male electrical engineer, on the other hand, somewhat ironically, seems to feel that women face a tougher challenge in engineering than Dr. Hayden stated. According to