Frankenstein continues to occupy the popular imagination as a monstrous scientist. Analyse some of the ways in which Frankenstein continues to haunt discussions of recent technologies.
1. This article [1] is talking about human cloning. Cloning of human embryos has already been achieved. Cloning of adults has been successful and announced but not yet proven. Before trying human cloning, scientists have cloned sheep and other animals. Dolly the clone sheep, however, died with a few years life. Scientists tried to clone dairy cattle for their milk; nevertheless, it raises out problems and shows the limitation of this technogenesis breakthrough. Failure rates are high, deformity and other development problems are very common. This author pointed out that clone animals could be easily affected by bacteria, viruses and other germs. So would it be safe to consume the dairy products and meats from the clone animals? Moreover, scientists claim that technically human organism and body parts could be created by cloning methods. This issue is broadly discussed by the public ethically, morally, legally, religiously, economically.
The article is chosen as it describes the progress of cloning. Scientists have tried to clone animals before cloning human. It tells human cloning actually takes risk and explains why people want human cloning. Cloning is one of the ways to shows Frankenstein still appears in our world and continues to haunt discussions of recent technologies.
2. The link [2] also mentions human cloning. It summarizes out the problems of human cloning in a more humane way. Human cloning raise out similar problems as condoms rose out to the Catholics when the world separate sex from procreation. People even claim that this would be an evil behaviour as it is trying to interfere marital acts that had been happened with the born of human. Catholics claims that children should beget through the loving act of marriage, instead of through scientific breakthrough.
The uses of condoms helps human to control fertility, so as for human cloning if it happens in the human society. When people accept that human cloning technique has legal authority or moral authority over when and how to have children, the clone child itself is believed to be a product of science instead of natural creature. Men then become a God in deciding when and how other human life could be created or destroyed. Catholics believe that to insure human cloning will not dominate our world is to preach that it is not man who is charge of deciding who comes into existence, but God. The article also points out some real life situations that would lead out by human cloning.
This article is regarded as one of the sources since it talks about our living mode and pattern have changed because of technology. Catholics are discontent and blame on it. Men will become the arbitrator of the next generation if people accept human cloning. A table is listed to tell the problems of human cloning in the piece. It is another example to show Frankenstein continues to haunt discussions of recent technologies.
3. This article [3] argues that the technology constantly develops and it has improved a lot. Our technology will soon take place of human life. As computing has made great progress, the “technology breakout” is led that different kinds of technologies are associating to create theatrical and new abilities. Technology in our daily lives affects us seriously. The side effect of technology becomes to expose in our society.
The precipitating technological capacity is so obvious. Some theorists announced that it will meet a point where the technology will soon totally lose control since it reaches an unexpected level.
It points out that the technological juggernaut is not an automatic and self development. It actually needs a large number of resources such as people, money and other materials to generate these new technologies. After short period of time, human will face a very serious problem that the technology will control and decide the future for us if human do not rethink the basic modes of social, economic and environmental practice. It obviously states that Frankenstein continues to haunt discussions of recent technologies.
4. This piece [4] states that technology is wonderful which takes over a good percentage of the jobs people are pursuing. It seems to imply that it could somehow run itself and ignore humans’ control of them in a manner detrimental to the world.
The author interviewed different people with different jobs including journalist, doctor, writer, actor, college professor and her friend. They all agree technology really help them a lot or even saying that they cannot live without technology. The actor she interviewed said, “Three words: computer generated graphics.” These three words are so powerful to describe computer helps to create the things which people want such as background, view, figures and environment in a movie. It seems inevitable that computers and robots will soon be able to carry out a good percentage of human functions. Technology has already taken over and threatened the world. Thus, it is chosen to be one of the sources for the essay.
5. The article [5] talks about the impact brought by computers and robots in the modern world. With the aid of robots and computerized machines, manufacturing jobs have declined in a significant scale. Industrial processes have yet become increasingly automated. Robots are applied to different industries from car assembling to surgical assisting. These kinds of machines can even perform duties that are considered difficult or dangerous to human, like exploring the surface of Mars. General purpose robot arms, nevertheless, are becoming increasingly popular as they become less expensive, easily adaptable and user friendly programmed. They will be able to handle manufacturing wider range of products with high quality, accuracy and lower cost than human without ever needing to rest.
With the past 20 years, sophisticated software packages are taking over the routine tasks of office management, fully automated offices will soon begin reducing the need for office workers. Farms, mining operations, industrial plants are connected by truck, trains and ships like an assembly line, higher profits are generated which drives investment into greater automation and leads to more research and development where commercial could be take place in producing robots such like these.
This source is selected because it shows the improvement of technology and people become to rely on it although it really helps people a lot. Machines can help people to do the dangerous things. Positive effects are included in the article that shows Frankenstein continues to haunt discussions of recent technologies.
6. The chapter [6] starts introducing novels describing a future society fully dominated by technology, which there would be no freedom, beauty or initiative, and no private life for individuals. Technology began to show its ability to control humans, in which scientific monsters and robots reigned over the world. The time when technology was considered neutral is gone forever.
It exhibits the image of technology governing the future world and brings up to the discussion of how technology influences us at the present. The nature has profoundly influenced by technology, and has penetrated in our social life.
The article points out the positive effects and negative effects in the latter part, which gives an idea of the pros and cons argument of whether technology has a good impact on us. Technology not influences our nature and our productivity, it also affects us sociologically. The argument continues in discussing how human could do in balancing tech development and protecting the nature. It also suggests ways that human should do in order to gain opportunities in realizing free development.
The article is chosen as it describes the progress of cloning. Scientists have tried to clone animals before cloning human. It tells human cloning actually takes risk and explains why people want human cloning. Cloning is one of the ways to shows Frankenstein still appears in our world and continues to haunt discussions of recent technologies.
2. The link [2] also mentions human cloning. It summarizes out the problems of human cloning in a more humane way. Human cloning raise out similar problems as condoms rose out to the Catholics when the world separate sex from procreation. People even claim that this would be an evil behaviour as it is trying to interfere marital acts that had been happened with the born of human. Catholics claims that children should beget through the loving act of marriage, instead of through scientific breakthrough.
The uses of condoms helps human to control fertility, so as for human cloning if it happens in the human society. When people accept that human cloning technique has legal authority or moral authority over when and how to have children, the clone child itself is believed to be a product of science instead of natural creature. Men then become a God in deciding when and how other human life could be created or destroyed. Catholics believe that to insure human cloning will not dominate our world is to preach that it is not man who is charge of deciding who comes into existence, but God. The article also points out some real life situations that would lead out by human cloning.
This article is regarded as one of the sources since it talks about our living mode and pattern have changed because of technology. Catholics are discontent and blame on it. Men will become the arbitrator of the next generation if people accept human cloning. A table is listed to tell the problems of human cloning in the piece. It is another example to show Frankenstein continues to haunt discussions of recent technologies.
3. This article [3] argues that the technology constantly develops and it has improved a lot. Our technology will soon take place of human life. As computing has made great progress, the “technology breakout” is led that different kinds of technologies are associating to create theatrical and new abilities. Technology in our daily lives affects us seriously. The side effect of technology becomes to expose in our society.
The precipitating technological capacity is so obvious. Some theorists announced that it will meet a point where the technology will soon totally lose control since it reaches an unexpected level.
It points out that the technological juggernaut is not an automatic and self development. It actually needs a large number of resources such as people, money and other materials to generate these new technologies. After short period of time, human will face a very serious problem that the technology will control and decide the future for us if human do not rethink the basic modes of social, economic and environmental practice. It obviously states that Frankenstein continues to haunt discussions of recent technologies.
4. This piece [4] states that technology is wonderful which takes over a good percentage of the jobs people are pursuing. It seems to imply that it could somehow run itself and ignore humans’ control of them in a manner detrimental to the world.
The author interviewed different people with different jobs including journalist, doctor, writer, actor, college professor and her friend. They all agree technology really help them a lot or even saying that they cannot live without technology. The actor she interviewed said, “Three words: computer generated graphics.” These three words are so powerful to describe computer helps to create the things which people want such as background, view, figures and environment in a movie. It seems inevitable that computers and robots will soon be able to carry out a good percentage of human functions. Technology has already taken over and threatened the world. Thus, it is chosen to be one of the sources for the essay.
5. The article [5] talks about the impact brought by computers and robots in the modern world. With the aid of robots and computerized machines, manufacturing jobs have declined in a significant scale. Industrial processes have yet become increasingly automated. Robots are applied to different industries from car assembling to surgical assisting. These kinds of machines can even perform duties that are considered difficult or dangerous to human, like exploring the surface of Mars. General purpose robot arms, nevertheless, are becoming increasingly popular as they become less expensive, easily adaptable and user friendly programmed. They will be able to handle manufacturing wider range of products with high quality, accuracy and lower cost than human without ever needing to rest.
With the past 20 years, sophisticated software packages are taking over the routine tasks of office management, fully automated offices will soon begin reducing the need for office workers. Farms, mining operations, industrial plants are connected by truck, trains and ships like an assembly line, higher profits are generated which drives investment into greater automation and leads to more research and development where commercial could be take place in producing robots such like these.
This source is selected because it shows the improvement of technology and people become to rely on it although it really helps people a lot. Machines can help people to do the dangerous things. Positive effects are included in the article that shows Frankenstein continues to haunt discussions of recent technologies.
6. The chapter [6] starts introducing novels describing a future society fully dominated by technology, which there would be no freedom, beauty or initiative, and no private life for individuals. Technology began to show its ability to control humans, in which scientific monsters and robots reigned over the world. The time when technology was considered neutral is gone forever.
It exhibits the image of technology governing the future world and brings up to the discussion of how technology influences us at the present. The nature has profoundly influenced by technology, and has penetrated in our social life.
The article points out the positive effects and negative effects in the latter part, which gives an idea of the pros and cons argument of whether technology has a good impact on us. Technology not influences our nature and our productivity, it also affects us sociologically. The argument continues in discussing how human could do in balancing tech development and protecting the nature. It also suggests ways that human should do in order to gain opportunities in realizing free development.
References:
[1] Dixon, P. Human Cloning Headlines.
http://www.globalchange.com/clonenews.htm (accessed on 29 Mar. 2008).
[2] LoJacono, J. “Human Cloning: A Fruit of the Contraceptive Mentality.” Human Life International Inc. 2004.
http://www.hli.org/sfli_human%20_cloning_fact_sheet.pdf (accessed on 29 Mar. 2008).
[3] McMahon, P. “How the breakout of technology threatens human sovereignty.” The National Forum. 16 Mar. 2004.
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=2071 (accessed on 29 Mar. 2008).
[4] Runyan, A. “Technology taking over human functions?” The Stanford Daily. 28 Apr. 2005.
http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2005/4/28/technologyTakingOverHumanFunctions (accessed on 30 Mar. 2008).
[5] The Academy of Evolutionary Metaphysics Home-Page. 2005.
http://www.evolutionary-metaphysics.net/advancing_technology.html (accessed on 29 Mar. 2008).
[6] Wang, M. Y. Development of Technology and Social Life.
http://www.crvp.org/book/Series03/III-11/chapter_vii.htm (accessed on 29 Mar. 2008).
[1] Dixon, P. Human Cloning Headlines.
http://www.globalchange.com/clonenews.htm (accessed on 29 Mar. 2008).
[2] LoJacono, J. “Human Cloning: A Fruit of the Contraceptive Mentality.” Human Life International Inc. 2004.
http://www.hli.org/sfli_human%20_cloning_fact_sheet.pdf (accessed on 29 Mar. 2008).
[3] McMahon, P. “How the breakout of technology threatens human sovereignty.” The National Forum. 16 Mar. 2004.
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=2071 (accessed on 29 Mar. 2008).
[4] Runyan, A. “Technology taking over human functions?” The Stanford Daily. 28 Apr. 2005.
http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2005/4/28/technologyTakingOverHumanFunctions (accessed on 30 Mar. 2008).
[5] The Academy of Evolutionary Metaphysics Home-Page. 2005.
http://www.evolutionary-metaphysics.net/advancing_technology.html (accessed on 29 Mar. 2008).
[6] Wang, M. Y. Development of Technology and Social Life.
http://www.crvp.org/book/Series03/III-11/chapter_vii.htm (accessed on 29 Mar. 2008).
5 comments:
Joanne,
The resources you found online is great since you gave a comprehensive explanation on the issue of Frankenstein, as the sources discuss both the positive and negative impacts of technology towards humanity. I think your point of human cloning is good, which shows the idea of cyborg / Frankenstein has already existed in reality but not literature. Besides, your source not only states the problems of human cloning, but also pinpoints the losing control of technology when people rely on it, which can also explain the reason why human afraid of technology.
Adelaide
The references you found are very interesting and provide different points of view on the argument. Besides the effect of cloning animals, the article also mentioned about the concern on the safety of the food from these animals. The perspective from marriage is also funny. It shows an in depth investigation into the problem of cloning may lead to abnormal reproduction, and can affect the psyche of children. The interview from different people seemingly shows that technology can bring convenient to us, but when we think deeply, it also causes the fear of relying too much on it. You can support your essay from both the positive and negative perspective. If there were an introduction introducing your method of research and a conclusion to sum up your points, it would be much better.
joanne, i think you provide a good example of your webliography, In those examples, i think the 5th one is one of the good example.
The example talks about the impact brought by computers and robots in the modern world. It points out the similarities of Frankenstein one. It's really a good comparison.
Your webliography provided some good examples of the advantage and disadvantage that science and technology gave us. We, human, keep challenging the unknown and neglected whether it is dangerous or not. Human cloning is a powerful evidence to prove our success. Imagine that if one day, you had to transplant a kidney or any other part of your body , would you consider to have a cloning self? Does it become a new moral crisis? Is a cloning human a human? Does a cloning human have any rights to live or they just simply live for their host? I think we should have a deeply thought of science and morality.
The sourses that you found online is very interseting and detail. You give a lot of example to show both the advantages and disadvantages of human cloning as well as the technologies that we have nowadays.
Just like the point you ahve mentions, we should concern more about the problems of technologies that bring from us because sometimes it may cause big affection on many differnt aspects.
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