Bill Joy “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us?”
The article is full of terrifying predictions about the future impact of technologies on the living creatures. The author gives us very powerful insights on genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics in terms of the possible outcomes of their invention and launching. They are capable of destroying humanity even at a development stage through the accident in a laboratory, however, the bigger danger comes from the fact that each new invention is ought to be proved.
These insights are not of a fiction nature, they are backed up by real examples of Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing and other evidence. While these science directions are driven by the passion for knowledge, it also forces me to think of whether knowledge is good? After all, people want to become powerful and mighty, but for what purpose? Each person seeks happiness. Here came up author’s insight that we should be more deeply thinking of Dalai Lama ideas and his proposed ethics. The pursuit for happiness should come from love and compassion for others, and no kind of science could give us it but ourselves and, thus, science should be limited if it implies a danger for future.Leo Marx “Does Improved Technology Mean Progress?”
1) The Marx’s analysis of Jefferson’s viewpoint and his oppositionists reflects the insights of Daly in his article “Economics in a Full World” in a way that both is based on the dilemma of economics pursuits and the nature. The first argument is based upon technological advancement which is thought to enhance a well-being of society, which is not so but is the opposite for quality of life. The second argument is based upon limitless use of resources for economic benefits in a limited ecosystem. Here lies the exact difference between growth and development which is a moving from inventing new toward better use of what is already here. Thus, a world with less growth and more development would look more ecologically and socially wise.
2) Marx’s article of determining the proper place of science and technology in society helped to show the moment when human life became disconnected from science progress in favor of economic benefit. While society started to move to the mass production, the individual started to lose its meaning for the corporate mechanism. While technology sought to bring freedom for everyone, it results in creating the dependence on …
