The advancement of science and tech has brough us innumerable benefits. The mechanisation of agriculture, harnessing of alternative power sources and increasing globalisation brought about by computerisation has transformed us from primitive cavemen into modern technologically-savvy individuals. Scientific developments has given us decreased mortality rates, fewer infant deaths, improved sanitation and higher standards of living.

Science may be humankind’s greatest success as a species. Thanks to the scientific revolution that began in the seventeenth century, humans today enjoy instant communication, rapid transportation, a rich and diverse diet, and effective prevention and treatment for once-fatal illnesses. Moreover, science is humanity’s best hope for addressing such existential threats as climate change, emerging pathogens, extra-terrestrial bolides, and a burgeoning population.

Science has also been a continual process of refining human though, and this entails an awareness of our short-comings rather than a belief in our scientific wisdom.

However, with increased mechanisation and computerisation, Man is falling into the cushy traphole of abject laziness. This might lead to rise in obesity levels and pumonary-related diseases. Man is oftern under the comfortable delusion that he is in full control of technology and its progress, and often justifies the never-ending quest for a new gadget or a new method of going about life as a necessity and a way to further elevate our standard of living. Our way of life may have improved, but along with it comes the dangerous mentality that we simply cannot do without the convenience, Science and tech has accorded to us.

The more science empowers us, the more we will find ourselves without moral, ethical or religious compass. (talk about cloning?)

The pursuit of nuclear technology remains highly dangerous, and its potentially devastating impacts on human populations and surrounding areas have drastically reduced its desirability. The disastrous reactor failures at Chernobyl and Three Mile Island have adequately demonstrated the physical and environmental damage that nuclear technology has the potential to cause. Pictures of deformed Russian childrean and crackling Geiger counters in Scandinavia and central Europe have convinced the world that nuclear tech, though useful, is at best a necessary evil, and a threat that should be replaced as soon as possible.