Technology is the knowledge of the process and techniques that transforms the abstract ideas of scientists and mathematicians into a concrete reality. It is the 'know-how' that enables us to extract the raw materials and then convert them into fuel, steel, chemicals. plastics and food. Technology is also concerned with perfection of industrial processes, with mass production and automation. The advancing technology implies pollution, the exhaustion of natural resources and lack of workers' satisfaction in automated factories. Thus technology is a two-edged weapon.
The chemical industry has grown a lot in the 49th and 20th centuries. It turned natural rubber into a material to be used on an industrial scale. New discoveries like plastic artificial fibres and synthetics were industrialised. Dynamo and electric motors gave fillip to technological development. Early in the 20th century, Henry Ford. the American industrialist, added a new dimension to industrial technology-that of sheer scale. These developments in technology led to serious problem of unemployment, squandering of material resources and social dislocation.
Biotechnology, the manipulation of man's own boy made spectacular advances after the Second World War. An array of drugs to combat diseases were produced. By saving lift, it contributed to the population explosion. Tranquilisers, stimulants and psycho¬therapeutic drugs controlling mental processes were of great value in the hands of the medical profession but created a great social problem when they became generally available.
Computers have opened up new vistas. These can make any number of calculations; modes of particular hypothetical situations can be produced and studied. These have created the problem of unemployment. Sometimes mechanical calculations may do harm to other people and nations. Space technology poses great danger to the world if it is used for polluting the atmosphere. That is why pollution has become an international problem. Now every country is worried about pollution. It in only because of modern technology there is no doubt that it has created a lot of problem.
Technology has made man mechanical in outlook, ruthless in attitude, materialistic in thinking and cold and calculating in behaviours. Thus, technology has created psychological, social and other problems.
Moreover technology has made man of part of the machine. Even in his leisure, has no time to enjoy. He has to work. He has gone away from nature because of this technology. There is no difference between man and machine. So we can say that technology has created more problems.
The chemical industry has grown a lot in the 49th and 20th centuries. It turned natural rubber into a material to be used on an industrial scale. New discoveries like plastic artificial fibres and synthetics were industrialised. Dynamo and electric motors gave fillip to technological development. Early in the 20th century, Henry Ford. the American industrialist, added a new dimension to industrial technology-that of sheer scale. These developments in technology led to serious problem of unemployment, squandering of material resources and social dislocation.
Biotechnology, the manipulation of man's own boy made spectacular advances after the Second World War. An array of drugs to combat diseases were produced. By saving lift, it contributed to the population explosion. Tranquilisers, stimulants and psycho¬therapeutic drugs controlling mental processes were of great value in the hands of the medical profession but created a great social problem when they became generally available.
Computers have opened up new vistas. These can make any number of calculations; modes of particular hypothetical situations can be produced and studied. These have created the problem of unemployment. Sometimes mechanical calculations may do harm to other people and nations. Space technology poses great danger to the world if it is used for polluting the atmosphere. That is why pollution has become an international problem. Now every country is worried about pollution. It in only because of modern technology there is no doubt that it has created a lot of problem.
Technology has made man mechanical in outlook, ruthless in attitude, materialistic in thinking and cold and calculating in behaviours. Thus, technology has created psychological, social and other problems.
Moreover technology has made man of part of the machine. Even in his leisure, has no time to enjoy. He has to work. He has gone away from nature because of this technology. There is no difference between man and machine. So we can say that technology has created more problems.
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