Thursday, February 28, 2008

Is technology a threat or a promise?

People have been wondering if technology will be a threat or a promise in the near future. AI gore and other environmentalists have shown us the importance of preventing climate change in a documentary called ‘An Inconvenient Truth’. Actually technology can be a threat or a promise depending on how we use it. If we use it for bad causes like deforestation, it is a threat to us but if we use it for good causes like creating better medicines, it is a promise to us. There are pros and cons in technology. The pros are, better medicines are created to improve our health and living conditions, automobiles are created for us to reduce the burden of walking from places to places and lastly, air-conditioner are also created to help us sleep better at night. It also helps to relieve our burden as we can find information we need easily on the internet. The cons are, even though automobiles do help us but it also harms us as well because carbon monoxide are released from the car into the air causing air pollution and machines are use to cut tons of trees per day, causing global warming as carbon dioxide are not taken in by the trees to make. Air conditioners are also depleting natural resources as coal is needed to produce electricity even though air-conditioner helped us to sleep better at night.In my opinion, technology have help us and harm us at the same time. The only way to prevent this from happening is to find a permanent solution or create a technology where it will help us and not harm the environment. Frankly speaking for me, technology is more of a promise than threat to me as it helps me more than it harms me. For environmentalists and governments, technology might be more of a threat than promise to them. That's what I think it might be.

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Sunday, February 3, 2008

Does internet cause more harm than good?

What is internet? Internet is a wireless network, that i use all over the world. There are advantages and disadvantage of internet.
The advantages of internet are: 'First, we can find information from website which will make our work burden lighten. Second, We are able to chat with friends online using the program called MSN or some other programs which can be download from the internet. Lastly, we are able to surf the internet to listen to song and play online games to reduce stress. Some examples are, doing powerpoint, searching for information and watching videos online.
The disadvantages of internet are: 'First, people will surf pornography website which is illegal.Second, people might lure girls from the internet, and then eventually con them. Lastly, people can illegally download songs or videos from the internet, which is obviously unwanted by the government because of the policy of piracy. Some examples are, burning original CDs to pirated CDs, downloading R21 movies and images and try all ways and means to make whatever they want and wish to be realistic.
However, if you have self-restrain or family members at home, it will be hard for you to surf illegal website or download illegal movies. You will also get bored of surfing the same old things over and over again. Therefore, you should put your mind at ease, that internet will not harm us. Burning CDs is alright as long as you do not sell or distribute them, because it is not against the law to burn but against the law to sell. Therefore the disadvantages of internet can be prevented easily.
In my opinion, the internet cause more good than harm because if the internet is banned, many people will be sad as they cannot use the internet to listen to song or play online games to reduce stress. Therefore, I strongly agree that internet is causing good instead of harm.
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