¶ … Human Technology
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The Pros of Human Technological Progress
Human technology gives people many wonderful advantages. It was technological progress in farming and food production that allowed early mankind to multiply and become the dominant species on the planet. Many inventions in hunting and the production of shelter enabled man to survive in harsh climates in the heat of deserts and the bitter Arctic cold. The invention of fire-making allowed early man to travel farther into harsh climates and to improve health and survivability because it enabled them to eat cooked food. Even before the time of Christ, many ancient civilizations such as the Romans and the Greeks used technology to build large cities that even had running water and aqueducts for sewer systems. Without the invention of strong building materials and methods, none of those advances would have been possible.
By the 18th century, the Industrial Revolution dramatically improved human life by allowing the construction of modern buildings and transportation. It also made mass production of consumer goods...
In the modern age from the 20th century onward, human technological advances have provided modern medicine and healthcare that have saved countless lives from diseases that would have been fatal for most of human history. As a result of modern healthcare and medical science, life expectancy has nearly doubled for people in the industrialized world in the last one-hundred years. Of course, some of the most dramatic benefits of modern technology are air transportation and computer systems that have made the internationalization and globalization of business possible in the 21st century.
The Cons of Human Technological Progress
While human technological progress has provided countless valuable benefits to mankind, it…
The Cons of Human Technological Progress
While human technological progress has provided countless valuable benefits to mankind, it has not necessarily been without costs and negative consequences. Generally, almost every technological advance can also be used for reasons that are harmful. Fire, for example, was a valuable advantage for the first generations of mankind that learned to harness it; but it was also used offensively and in battle to destroy the homes and cities of other people. Transportation was always used for mutually beneficial trade; but it was also used to transport warriors who attacked other societies to take whatever they had or to enslave the native populations of foreign lands. Even without bad intentions, man has brought tremendous suffering from society to society by accidentally transmitting diseases from environments where they occurred naturally to other regions where no such diseases existed before.
One of the greatest ironies about human technological progress is that nothing promotes human invention more than warfare. For example, it was only a decade in between the Wright Brothers' historic invention of air flight and the first use of aircraft in war. Within another several decades, aircraft were being used to conduct large-scale bombing raids of some of the major cities of the world in World War Two. By the end of that war, intercontinental ballistic missiles threatened mass destruction through even more impersonal means. Even some of the most beneficial technologies, such as computer systems, can be responsible for tremendous harm to individuals and to society. Consider the common use of computers for criminal activities and the way that computerized stock trading and banking nearly destroyed the entire global economic system after the American economic collapse that started in 2007 and 2008 because of mortgage banking securities that were too complex for those responsible for them to understand the great risks that they posed.
Pedagogic Model for Teaching of Technology to Special Education Students Almost thirty years ago, the American federal government passed an act mandating the availability of a free and appropriate public education for all handicapped children. In 1990, this act was updated and reformed as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, which itself was reformed in 1997. At each step, the goal was to make education more equitable and more accessible to
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