Media/Medical and Science Ethics

The rapid advancement in engineering science realise humankinds so fearsome about the hazards it brings themmost especially of the danger that bequeath cause their extinction. It is not mere computer or cellular phone that advances. Today, genetics, nano engineering science, and robotics (GNR) make that constant fear to knock on the feet of human race more frequent than ever.Dr. Ralph Merkle, in his essay entitled Nanotechnology Its a Small, Small, Small, Small World (2000), pleasantly drew a approaching that is happily gains from the various benefits of nanotechnology in almost all aras from which life groovyly depends. He said that nanotechnology is being pushed through towards an objective. That is to make almost both make product faster, lighter, stronger, smarter, safer, and cleaner. He even enumerated benefits that nanotechnology may provide human being especially on transportation, atom computers, military applications, solar energy, and medical uses.Dr. Merkle has primed(p) down very good arguments. He will surely make good impressions to whoever reads his essay. Dr. Merkle, who became scientific in describing when and in what manner human will use nanotechnology, is indeed an ethical engineer and inventor. He became solely later to whatever nanotechnology can give humans to improve their everyday living. only all the benefits he said in his essay are in addition the weaknesses of his arguments and he was not able to draw more sentences to defend them. though Dr. Merkle missed to include in his essay the dangers at par with the benefits of nanotechnology, Dr. measure merriment provided them is his essay.Dr. Joy, in his essay The Future Doesnt Need Us (2000), materialized and defined that fear. In lieu with the fast-paced proficient advancement, he overshadowed a future dominated either by elites that uses GNR as a machinery to go past the masses or by egoistic individuals who work hard to intent vested interests or by the robots the mselves with the powerful wit as much as that of a human being. Dr. Joy constructed such plausible reality in a logical structure, discussing how and what did technological advancements play in human community of interests for the past centuries. Indeed, he showed how dangers go in parallel with the advantages and benefits of technology.He, however, like any other individual, has all the reason to be fearsome about the technological advancements vis--vis GNR. History tells the earthly concern how did the arrangement of atoms forming a huge atomic go wrong become so destructiveremoves geographical and topographical places and killed thousands of large number in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This is just one of the grave mass deaths and destructions that shook the whole world until now. History also tells us how technological advancements on medicines permitted the rise of new medicines aimed to secure individuals from the former medicines. It is, Dr. Joy points out, in the hands of th e wrong people that such potential dangers are permitted to happen and may do mishandling, abuse, and accidents to recapitulate over and over again.Each of the dickens essays could be said as complement to the other however, this accompaniment discloses another significant issue Which of the two needs more importance, the duties or consequences of technology?The abovementioned question now asks push question, who among the two makes a reveal point? Dr. Merkle is pushing through the duties technology provides humansthe duty of improving everyday life through manufactured products that were equipped with more efficiency, while Dr. Joy stresses on the consequences that make technology endanger lifethe pros and the cons of technology and how it contributes to humans extinction in the near future. For instance, the medical application of nanotechnology will lead to a better medical interposition of illness, Dr. Merkle said.The assurance, however, that it will lead to a better, and maybe safer, treatment is blurry. The creation of anti-antibiotics will testify to such inadequacy. Another example would be the military uses of nanotechnology to create better and more effective weapons. A res publica which has strong weapons to use during wars will, of course, able to claim the victory. Nanotechnology will be of great help in creating such weapons. However, if the opportunity to use nanotechnology to arrange atoms in a way creating weaponswere given and used for mass destructions by, to what Dr. Joy pertains, uncollectible people, we will witness on this part the disadvantage.Whether the phenomenon is an unseen/unpredicted accompaniment or a willfully-done event, the raison dtre remains to every duty of technology in that respect is a parallel consequence. Too bad that when the consequence is bad and/or destructive, it cost us million lives and million-worth assets to vanished in split seconds, or it be our daily living to be gradually ruined everyday.Whethe r duty or consequence deserves more regard, some would still think if we are to coexist with technology harmoniously or end up victims of it, like Dr. Joy thought of. solely still, like what Dr. Merkle tells us, a lot would depend on when we start.As technology and knowledge rapidly changes, man has become wiser than ever. But the question to both Dr. Merkle and Dr. Joy also bothers even ordinary individuals, where are we headed as human race given that we are placed in now highly technological world?Dr. Joy tells that many things greatly depends on humansthat is if we will still be driven by societal transformation, progress, and well-being. If not, progress will be somewhat bittersweet.True enough, humans coexists in a one world. To clearly define the duties technology should and at the same time eliminating, or the least expense, minimizing, the dangers it may give us, molecular(a) manufacturing (as part of the nanotechnology) requires the coordinated efforts of many people in ma ny years, as what Dr. Merkle said.At the end of the day, the challenge to us is more likely to be as particular as how to protect life improving it is perhaps a higher task that awaits us.