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Technology creates more problems than it solves, and may threaten or damage the quality of life.

With the development of technology, that the affects of technology are not always positive is generally accepted by public. Technology itself is a two-edged weapon, so it is impossible to hope that technology will only do good to human society and social development. Instead mankind should try to reduce the negative effects of technology.

Admittedly, modern technologies which are intended to improve human's life initially do produce some new problems that never emerge before the industrial revolution, which in a sense threatens the quality of life. For example, new environmental stress, such as acid rain and greenhouse effect, which is more and more serious with the progress in the industrial production. People are enjoying the comfort and luxury brought by new technology without realizing that they are deprived the necessities of life: blue sky, green trees, lean rivers, etc. Another example is automatism of industrial production, which do effect great improvement in the production...

Posted by: Adriana Alvarez

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