Science: Advantages & Disadvantages

A contemporary society must include people being more interconnected, technological innovation and globalization. However, the average man is too afraid to make drastic changes and as a result, we must slowly change so that the majority of the population still feels safe in the known. Science is a field of career that will make the average man not feel safe at all.

Science has had a huge impact on society in the past few centuries with medicines curing disastrous diseases and the growing

Many people of 20th century though, turned for truth in the logic of science. It had made many things simpler for them and had offered them a better standard of living. Even so, as Cat’s Cradle demonstrates, their is both a good and evil side to science. When it is used with careless negligence, the results of manipulating nature can be formidable. It is a tool, and must be used with respect for others. Because of this, there is ultimately a limit to the truth many people search for in this field; although we can advance through science and exploration, it doesn’t take into account human ethics and morals. It therefore doesn’t offer meaning, and it doesn’t offer happiness. One must search for those realizations from

Science has helped improve many people’s lifestyle from eating a healthy diet to stopping different form of disease that are attacking the human body. Science also provides intolerable lifestyle to people such as the elders as when the elderly have an incurable disease and the elderly are suffering for this incurable disease and wants to die, but cannot due to science advancement in technology making impossible to die at that moment. The possible future of science is uncontrollable. The power of science provides possibility and with this possibility doesn’t always generate a good possibility. Jeremy Rifkin in "Biotech Century" and Michael Bishop in "Enemies of Promise" talks about the science as their argument in a casual sense of

“An atom is the fundamental block of all matter, atoms are composed of smaller subatomic particles neutrons, [Neutral], protons [Positive (+)] and electrons [negative (-)]. Nuclear energy is the energy formed from the nucleus of an atom through different methods as fission (which is the way in which an atom is split into smaller subatomic particles by hitting its nucleus with a neutron) and fusion (which is the process in which new heavier atoms and large amounts of energy are produced by bonding atoms together). (Nuclear Energy).Nuclear energy has various pros and cons, some of its advantages are that it reduces global warming as a result of decreasing greenhouse gases emission and CO92 production. While, its main disadvantage, is that the

“Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.”- Carrie Snow. Just as Carrie Snow mentions, science and technology are glorious things that can help and benefit nearly everyone! But anything can turn bad… in one case, scientific knowledge created the atomic energy which was created in a chance to strive forward, but instead left us farther behind than we should.

A healthy society plays an important role in the world state. “The overalls of the workers were white, their hands gloved with a pale corpse-colored rubber. The light was frozen, dead, a ghost. Only from the yellow barrels of the microscopes did it borrow a certain rich and living substances, lying along he polished tubes like butter, streak after luscious streak in long recession down the work tables” (Huxley 2). This quote shows that science has helped keep the society healthy.

From the ancient Greeks to present day American scientists they have used the power of science to further the lives of all mankind. For thousands of years science has proved to make life easier and to further our own understandings of how the world works. Science has proven to improve our own well being through the enhancement medicines and the thorough knowledge of the human body. Diseases have been beaten back by the great efforts of science and human life extended to its limit. Many great people have and will contribute to the growth of science to increase the comfort and life of mankind not for selfish gain but for the knowledge of bettering the world.

One of the greatest proponents of the Atomic Age is the aspect of clean, reusable energy. This method of obtaining energy was long sought after, and lead to many failures. Prior to this era, cities and other societies relied strictly on coal, hydroelectric, and natural gases and oils. These all had their faults, or were negative in many ways. For example, the amount of coal that was being burnt was leading our supply to last for about another hundred years. As the years progressed and atomic science was being diversified, the world’s reliance on coal was lessening. One of the first major breakthroughs with nuclear chemistry was the triggering of Uranium-235 to split its nucleus, releasing energy beyond

Scientific power has taken a different meaning that the one that we are used to today. Generally, when discussing about how science can impact our lives, we almost always relate scientific power to something that benefits mankind in a mysterious way. Surprisingly, in World State, Science has always been feared by the controllers of the World State since it demands individuals to have independent thoughts and original ideas, which in the World State Government’s eyes, would unquestionably threaten the stability that it has long been pursuing to maintain. Rather than completely prohibiting the use of science and technology, which would significantly slow down the societal development, the World State government has chosen to take great advantage of it---having harsh control over reproduction through the use of technology. Many practices including the Bokanovsky process, removal of the female reproductive

“As science is more and more subject to grave misuse as well as to use for human benefit

Nuclear power is useful for the submarine fleet and nuclear icebreakers. The use of atomic engines allows them to exist for a long time autonomously, move to any distance. For submarines - to be under water for months.

Science is loved and feared by humans, depending on how it is used and applied. It both helps people and causes difficulties. In some ways it has hurt lives, like in Macaela Mackenzie’s “What to know about 2018’s Deadly Flu Season” and Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde”. In some ways it has helped our lives, like in Fabrizio Bensch’s “Scientists find DNA of first-ever bubonic plague, warn of new outbreaks.”, in Daniel Defoe’s “ A Journal of the Plague Year”, and in Harvard University Contagion : Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics “The Great Plague of London, 1665”. First, in Mackenzie’s text how it hurt lives.

Science is a double edged weapon, it might be used for the prosperity of human beings and also it can be used as a weapon to kill human beings. Therefore, we cannot consider technology to be ethical or unethical, but we can consider our usages to be ethical or unethical. Alfred Nobel has established Nobel Prize to encourage scientists when he found that his invention “Dynamite” was used in wars to kill human beings. Science and technology are harmless; however we might misuse them and make them a tool for harming each other.

Science is an important part of our every day lives. We wake up each morning because we hear the ringing of our alarm clocks and turn on our faucets to wash our faces with warm water. We turn on the lights in our rooms to see our clothes and get dressed and we put our breakfast in the toaster and sip coffee from our mugs. All these things we do in the short time we are rushing to get ready for work or school, are due to the advancement of science and technology.