英语作文:Technology--A Double-edged Sword科 技 -- 一把双刃剑

英语作文:Technology--A Double-edged Sword科 技 -- 一把双刃剑

         In the past, technological advancement was generally held to be synonymous with progress, and progress to be synonymous with absolute good. People thought of technology as a solution to problems, not a creator of them. As we took each step forward, technologically speaking, we assumed that we were leaving old difficulties behind and advancing into a new and more pleasant future. This was only partially true. For us technological advancement did solve old problems, it also created new ones. These problems are of various types, each having different implications and requiring different degrees of human decision.
          One set of problems can be readily identified by looking around.These problems concern the 'pollution' of our environment by technology as a result of sudden upsets and imbalances in the physical, economic and social equilibrium. The most obvious aspects of these are the general pollution of our physical environment and the destruction of irreplaceable natural resources.Not so obvious as these, but just as painfully significant to some, are the effacement and displacement of jobs which over night often create large groups of jobless citizens.
         Can technology be used to undo what it has done, replace what it has destroyed or substitute what it has caused to disappear? No one knows. Many of us wonder whether all of the sources of pollution have yet been identified, whether they are being arrested and whether they will be prevented from recurring.
         Another set of problems relate to what technological advancement has done to the quality of life. an improved life has not been, unfortunately, either the goal or the chief beneficiary of technological change. Too much has happened too fast. in contrast, in the past, things changed slowly enough to accommodate gradual change. People could be aware of it and adjusted to it, and perhaps they could even change it.In the modern world, we must make rapid decisions today, or tomorrow we may find a whole new world built up.
     Presumably the most significant and potentially explosive issues, however, are those related to methods of human manipulation and control. There is also the new horizon of genetic analysis, manipulation and correction. And there is now the possibility of creating a living substance and decoding and generating a complete organism from the information found within a cell.This is no longer a daydream. Some consider these possibilities visions, others nightmares.
     It is true that incredible powers are now within our hands,or at least within our reach, and the question no longer is "Can we do it?" but "How soon can we do it?" Our lives have been and are being changed drastically. The point is to take control of technology or to be driven by it.

      过去技术进步一般被认为是进步的代名词，进步是绝对优势的代名词。人们认为技术是解决问题的办法，而不是他们的创造者。在技​​术上，我们把握每一步，我们假设我们把旧的困难落在后面，进入一个新的更美好的未来。这只是部分真实。对于我们的技术进步确实解决了老问题，也创造了新的问题。这些问题是各种各样的，每个都有不同的含义，需要不同程度的人类决定。
      通过环顾四周可以很容易地确定一组问题。这些问题是由于身体，经济和社会均衡的突然的不平衡和不平衡而引起的技术污染对我们的环境造成的。这些方面最明显的一个方面是我们的物质环境的一般污染和不可替代的自然资源的破坏，这些并不那么明显，但是对于一些人来说，对于一些这样的工作来说，这是一种痛苦的重要性。夜间经常创造大批失业的公民。
      可以用技术来消除它已经做了什么，替换已经毁坏了什么，或者替代它已经消失了什么？没人知道。我们中许多人想知道是否所有的污染源尚未确定，是否被逮捕，是否会被阻止再次发生。
     另一套问题与技术进步对生活质量有关。不幸的是，改善生活的目标还是技术变革的主要受益者。太多发生得太快了。相比之下，在过去，事情变化缓慢，以适应逐渐的变化。人们可以意识到它并对其进行调整，也许甚至可以改变它。在现代世界，我们必须在今天或明天做出快速的决定
可能会找到一个全新的世界。
      可能是最重要和潜在的爆炸性问题，那些与人类操纵和控制方法有关的问题。还有遗传分析，操纵和纠正的新视野。现在有可能从细胞中发现的信息中产生生物物质并解码和产生完整的生物，这不再是白日梦。有些人认为这些可能性的愿景，其他的恶梦。
       这是真的，令人难以置信的权力现在在我们手中，或至少在我们的范围内，这个问题不再是“我们能做吗？但“我们能做多久？”我们的生活一直在急剧变化。关键是要控制技术或由其驱动。