ARW CA Blogging Assignment 7

"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal" -Albert Einstein

 I think that the technological progress today already out of our control today. I think that even specialists do not know what is happening this very moment. I think that many people who contribute to technological evolution are not aware of their purpose of engaging in it. They maybe working hard to make our life better but then are they really thinking about it in a long span? I think that we have already reached a point where we are satisfied with what we have in terms of ordinary life. We wish for too much. What we wish to have today is something we shouldn't have. Artificial human organs may save many people suffering in organ failures. But then, are we supposed to create an artificial brain as well? If we transplant an artificial brain to a person who is brain-dead, would the person be the same person as he was before being brain-dead? This is a problem that requires further consideration. Though I doubt there would be a clear answer to it. I sound confusing, but I just wanted to point out an example from huge problems concerning technological development. I really think that technological progress is like an axe in the hands of pathological criminal. We can't just let ourselves engaged in technological progress. Instead, we need to seek for the purpose we are devoting ourselves to get used to in this so unnatural technological society. Technological progress remains as an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal until all of us have the good reason and the control to keep up with this never ending technology progressing world.

CA Blogging Assignment 6

The term "the law of unintended consequences" means unpredicted results that happened to occur. Such consequences could be either good or bad. For example, I had never expected to meet many friends from all over the world before moving to the US when I was eight, but after spending three years there, I met friends from so many countries that I cannot even count. This was an unpredicted, but clearly a good consequences. On the other hand, I have also seen an unintended consequence which ended up in a bad result which was what happended in Fukushima nuclear power plants this March. No one had expected such a disaster to happen. Residents around nuclear power plants were informed that it would be safe before the accident.

CA Blogging Assignment 5

My topic for essay 2 is informed consent.
I chose informed consent because I wanted to think about the importance of making own decision for medical treatment. We tend to think that doctors are the only one who makes the choice for treatment and are responsible for everything being done but this is not true. It is our own body that they treat so we are the ones who should be making choices. We should be given the information and the chance to choose what we want doctors to do to cure illness.
I haven't really decided my thesis statement, but for now, my thesis statement is,
"Many patients are given medical treatments without knowing about their illness, the cure for disease, and its risk however, they should be given the chance to know and decide what to be done to their body therefore informed consent is important."

CA Blogging Assignment 4

After I had read about "enhanced" students on page 7 to 8, I felt very weird because though I believed that such "enhanced" students would not appear in the real world, it seemed as if they might in a couple centries or even decades. I hated the idea of "silent messaging." This was just rediculous. A person's thoughts is something that should be kept inside oneself. Only if the person wished to share the idea, he would pull the idea out of his brain through his words and body languages. It was creepy that enhanced people were always connected to each other and sharing their thoughts all the time. However, looking back how humans have developed technologies and have made impossible things possible, I cannot gurantee that such "enhanced" students would never show up.

CA blogging assignment 3

 The modifications to the human genome currently being studied and experimented with will eventually change human nature in the following ways. Humans would be able to modify genes as they wish which leads them to start changing themselves genetically. For example, people who suffer from a certain genetical illness would change their genes to the ones that do not cause illness. People would be "designing" themselves. Young people would start thinking about "designing" a baby so that the baby would live a life without any possibility of getting genetic illness. This might be a good idea because every parent do wish their children to be healthy however at the same time disabled or sick people might be discriminated because they would be even less handicapped people with genetic engineering.