Media/Medical and Science Ethics

The rapid advancement in applied science made sympathetics so fearsome about the dangers it brings themmost especi both(prenominal)y of the danger that go out leave to their extinction. It is non mere computer or cellular ph mavin that advances. Today, genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics (GNR) project that constant fear to knock on the feet of human race much(prenominal) frequent than ever.Dr. Ralph Merkle, in his essay entitled Nanotechnology Its a teeny-weeny, Small, Small, Small World (2000), pleasantly drew a future that is happily gains from the various benefits of nanotechnology in almost all areas from which support greatly dep devastations. He state that nanotechnology is being pushed through towards an objective. That is to make almost e very manufactured harvest- judgment of conviction faster, lighter, stronger, smarter, safer, and cleaner. He even enumerated benefits that nanotechnology may provide humanity especially on transportation, atom computers, mi litary applications, solar energy, and medical examination engages.Dr. Merkle has laid 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 reality will use nanotechnology, is thusly an ethical engineer and inventor. He became solely after to whatever nanotechnology go off give humans to improve their everyday backing. and all the benefits he said in his essay are as well the weaknesses of his arguments and he was not able to draw more than than sentences to defend them. Though Dr. Merkle missed to allow in in his essay the dangers at par with the benefits of nanotechnology, Dr. Bill Joy 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 techno uniform advancement, he oershadowed a future dominated either by elites that uses GNR as a machinery to eliminate the masses o r by egoistic individuals who work hard to aim vested interests or by the robots themselves 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 for the past centuries. Indeed, he showed how dangers go in collimate with the advantages and benefits of technology.He, however, like any different individual, has all the reason to be fearsome about the technological advancements vis--vis GNR. History tells the humanity how did the arrangement of atoms forming a huge atomic bomb become so destructiveremoves geographical and topographical places and killed thousands of people 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 agent medicines. It is, Dr. Joy points out, in the hands of the wrong people that such voltage dangers are permitted to happen and may do mishandling, abuse, and accidents to recur over and over again.Each of the two 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 further question, who among the two makes a better point? Dr. Merkle is pushing through the duties technology provides humansthe trade 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 intercession of illness, Dr. Merkle said.The assurance, however, that it will lead to a better, and perhaps 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 country 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 mode creating weaponswere given and used for mass destructions by, to what Dr. Joy pertains, bad people, we will spectator on this part the disadvantage.Whether the phenomenon is an unseen/unpredicted occurrence or a willfully-done event, the raison dtre remains to every duty of technology there 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 costs our daily living to be gradually ruined everyday.Whether 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. But 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 manufacturing (as part of the nanotechnology) requires the incorporate efforts of many people in many years, as what Dr. Merkle said.At the end of the day, the challenge to us is more likely to be as point as how to protect life improving it is perhaps a higher(prenominal) task that awaits us.