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Science Technology Society-04
Science Technology and Society (STS)
ICCT Colleges Foundation
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SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY SOCIETY
CHAPTER IV: THE GOOD LIFE
THINK ABOUT THESE QUESTIONS:
Directions: Answer the questions and Activities based on the topic discussed and understanding.
What is the good life? The good life is constantly in pursuit by Man. Every person has his perspective when it comes to what comprises the good life. For me the Good life is about having peace of mind, feelings in ourselves. Every day we go through hard but we continue to fight so that we can reach the good life we want. But no surprise that people are still looking to discover what it truly means to be living the good life. Finding an answer to this question is not easy, even in the modern age of information. The term <living the good life= can mean quite a variety of different things to different people. The following will present from a variety of different perspectives what the good life is all about. In its basic form, living the good life is all about the exploration of that which gives you joy and satisfaction. It’s about finding purpose and meaning in your life and drawing happiness from that which you do.
What is the relationship between the good life and science?
The relationship between Good life and science is having the goal of science to make man have a good life. It is science that provides good life for everyone and at the same time, it is the quest for good life that fuels science. In this huge world where number of inventions are rapidly growing, science made the lives of many convenient. The scientific inventions pave way for technological enhancements leading to more jobs, technological enhancements making household chores easy and more legit explanations on myth and belief of the society which makes us more educated and took away the innocence on salient matters. The advent of technology through science gives us idea on genetic engineering and other medical enhancements that are helpful in our lives as humans.
- Does technology always lead us to the good life? How and why?
Yes, we achieve good life through technology. Technology has been a countless help to humans since it was discovered with the purpose of making our way of life easier and more comfortable. Various innovations and novelties were learned that give birth to a more advanced way of living. With the help of technology, our use of modes in transportation and communication which are considered as one of the most significant aspect in human’s life have been more accessible. People nowadays uses different social media platforms to connect with each other despite the distance that hinders them.
MODULE
- Do people really need technology in their lives? Is it really a necessity?
Yes, we need technology in our lives as of today’s dynamic world. Technology is inevitable in our everyday lives. It is which brings together tools to promote development, use and information. Technology is in high demand due to rising supply and work place demands. This makes our lives simpler by allowing us to do things more quickly and easily. Things that used to take a long time can now be completed in a short amount of time. Despite this, there are still certain items that are best achieved without automation, such as high-quality handicrafts. Overall, technology is considered necessary in today's world because it makes our lives simpler in a variety of ways.
- How do you reconcile the 'need' for technology and the dilemma/s it faces?
Me as a current student which uses technology as a tool in doing my activities and assignments to make it easier. I can say that the best way to reconcile the need for technology and the dilemmas it faces right now particularly in ethical issues is intensive literacy or education. We can count a lot of dilemmas which technology is facing right now. I want to focus on one because I believe these dilemmas should be addressed separately. Perhaps the one of the greatest dilemmas that technology is facing right now is the ethical issues like copyright infringement, violation in intellectual property rights, computer crimes such as cyber bullying, phishing, scamming and the likes. Addressing Ethical Issues as a Dilemma of Technology Without Compromising the Need for Technology. The occurrence of these ethical issues is clearly visible in the society we have right now. These ethical issues should be addressed immediately to avoid serious effects in the end. However, in dealing these issues, it should not compromise the risky need of technology. And the best thing to deal with these ethical issues is thorough literacy or education.
6.. Should there be an ethics of technology?
In my point of view of seeing technology, it should have an ethics in all aspects since it affects out daily life routine. When we say Ethics, it refers to all the regulation and rules of decorum or manners based on ideas about what is morally good and bad. New technologies give us more power to act, which means that we have to make choices we didn't have to make before. While in the past our actions were involuntarily constrained by our weakness, now, with so much technological power, we have to learn how to be voluntarily constrained by our judgment. These changes obviously present some powerful risks, and we should ask ourselves whether we think such changes are worthwhile 3 because we do have choices in the technologies we make and live by. We can govern our technologies by laws, regulations, and other agreements. Some fundamentally ethical questions that we should be asking of new technologies include: What should we be doing with these powers now that we have developed them? What are we trying to achieve? How can this technology help or harm people? What does a good, fully human life look like? As we try to navigate this new space, we have to evaluate what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
DO THIS!!
Do the Activities below.
- Good Life Collage. Cut out pictures in magazines or newspapers that demonstrate how technology
has made the man's desire for a happy life more realizable. You may also opt to print out pictures from websites and other sources. Explain how these technological advancements have made the campaign
for the attainment of good life easier or otherwise.
Innovations and new technologies are changing the world and the daily lives of each and every one of us. Many things that were mere visions of the future yesterday are now reality. Meanwhile, we are surrounded by technology at every moment of our lives.
If you look at the picture above, it shows that technology has done a lot of good in human life. You can do a lot with a technology, such as mobile phone applications that you can use to enable a device. With surveillance, for the security of your home you can now monitor and record what is happening inside your home while no one is around.
- Compare and Contrast. Identify two modes of doing the same thing where one involves a more technologically advanced method. Example would be snail mail vs. e-mail. List down as many
examples. Brainstorm with a partner if a less technologically sophisticated mechanism can actually turn out to be better in terms of reaching for the good life. Is the more technologically advanced always
better?
With development happening in the whole world, technological advancements have changed or modified old ways of doing things. Here are some examples:
Physical Banking Vs. E-Banking
Physical banking activities are a traditional way of depositing and withdrawing money from a bank, updating cheque-books, checking balance amount, etc. This was more time-consuming and inefficient, as it involved travelling to the bank, waiting in queues. Even for the bank, it was a difficult task to manage the crowd, which led to increasing costs of extra employees, sitting arrangements, etc.
The system of e-banking has reduced this burden to a great extent. These activities now take place online in most cases. The labor cost of excess employees has reduced, which can be deviated to something more productive. Even for the consumers time and efforts have reduced significantly.
Physical Ordering Vs. Delivery Online
The traditional way of physical takeaways of food from restaurants was probably more expensive and inefficient for the consumers. The commuting cost, the extra effort involved, etc. made it expensive for the consumers. This also limited the takeaways for the restaurants, as very people could afford this cost.
Modern food delivery applications including Grab Food, Food Panda, etc. have made the process very easy and convenient for the consumers. For the sellers, the cost of hiring delivery personnel may have increased but along with that, the overall delivery demands have also risen, which compensates for the cost.
Traditional Advertising Vs Online Advertisement
The old ways of marketing/advertising were a tad too expensive because the physical presence of marketing individuals was a must. This made it inefficient as the reach of advertising was also less. For instance, insurance agents would go door to door to talk about their policies.
Marketing and advertising through various modes on the internet and TV have made it more cost-efficient and profitable, as more people have access to it.
Traditional Shopping Vs Online Shopping
Traditional Shopping In the traditional shopping, one has to leave home, either walk or take a ride to the store or shopping center in order to buy what one wants. Traditional shopping enables one to see the actual product before paying the money.
One could get the actual product that he or she likes with the money.
Online Shopping that we all do. This is very common nowadays. In earlier days we have to go to clothing shops and then we choose and we pay for the product we purchased. But nowadays we can shop from our house. We don't have to travel. We can select the various size according to our body shape. We can also pay online which is completely safe and easy. Thus online shopping saves our time, energy, fuel, and
many more things
Waze Application Always know what’s happening on the road with Waze. Even if you know the way, Waze tells you about traffic, construction, police, crashes, and more in real-time. If traffic is bad on your route, Waze will change it to save you time. While this might sound ok to many, but it has actually resulted in many traffic mishaps and even accidents. Drivers are found busy updating their location status while on the road, and the consequences yield lanes stuffed with traffic, and dangerous collisions at times. It is quite similar to the road accidents caused due to driver’s diverted attention towards the stereo player in the car to switch the songs, only the outcomes are far more dramatic. As the use expanded, the volume of information and individual data online has additionally expanded which has postured extensive negative effects on clients. As imparting one’s close to home data, area, pictures and others have turned into a typical standard for these apps, singular security has been traded off as it were. This moral attention has brought up a few issues, and obliges the organization to figure-out an approach to consolidate programmed overhauling of data in order to make the application easy to use.
Science Technology Society-04
Course: Science Technology and Society (STS)
University: ICCT Colleges Foundation
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