Argumentative Essay On Future Technology

There is this undeniable fear that technology with swallow us up, rather than help aid our further existence in the future. Even now we are faced with the fear that machines will replace the need for humans in everyday living. However is it possible for human nature to fall astray along the path of future technology? Along the many discussions illustrating the effects of technology alongside humans today, Steven Pinker takes the side describing technology as something that has “shrunk the globe and stretched our lives and our minds.” Here we have Pinker depicting technology as more of a tool, than a means of living. This is important because more often than not we get nervous at the thought of technology consuming the goals of humans,

To get a better understanding we must take a look from both perspectives. Well, if we take a scarcity for example, an issue that has prevailed even our own greatest attempts at diminishing it. We can picture how scarcity can create conflicts within a society, such as obtaining food, finding shelter, and collecting resources. This can raise conflict within the society, and unless you can resolve such an issue, you society will fall apart. Well what if technology was the answer to this issue? In Can Nanotechnology create Utopia? Michio Kaku talks about a fictional futuristic device called a “molecular assembler”, where you can break down items to an atomic level and join them together in different ways to form new substances. This means items such as metal, could be turned into glass, and vice versa. This is where fear can come into play, and not for all the wrong reasons. Kaku exclaims how such a device could be subversive with the simple question “if utopias fail because of scarcity then what happens when you have infinite abundance?” If you could be handed everything you needed to progress through life, why bother working for it when you can simply ask and receive. This is where negative connotations can

In order for us to wield a utopian society, we must change our perspective on human nature. Not view it as something set it stone, but rather a malleable back bone to us as humans. To which we can move past things such as the “inevitability” of war, and racial segregation and “dream a future without limits”. We often view these characteristics of humans to be something impossible to run away from. However maybe that 's because we’ve alway held a certain mindset towards it, and have not acted to change said mind set. It’s shown that we as humans have come a long way, as Steven Pinker states “Many leaps in our quality of life came from the recognition of universal human needs, such as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and of universal limitations on human wisdom and beneficence, which led to our government of laws not men.” Here pinker is trying to show the change in human nature, from before when we saw women as less of that to man, or even further in the past when we didn’t see people of color as even people! Proving to those who turn a blind eye to change that it really does happen. To display hard evidence of said change from our human history. If we can change human nature like we did in the past, then what is stopping us from forming it alongside this new technological way of life? Human nature is what could keep that fear of being consumed by