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　　TOPIC: ISSUE114 - "Humanity has made little real progress over the past century or so. Technological innovations have taken place, but the overall condition of humanity is no better. War, violence, and poverty are still with us. Technology cannot change the condition of humanity."
　　WORDS: 611 TIME: 0:48:00 DATE: 2007-8-5
　　Explosive development of science and technology has been made during the past one hundred years or so. When it comes to progress of the condition of humanity all over the world, there are always a host of different opinions held by different individuals from different areas. Have, you may wonder, the technology developments or innovations contributed to promoting our humanity? Admittedly, most people would consider that there are still so many troubles with us such as poverty, violence, conflicts and even wars. However, as a whole effect in general, technology progress has in fact, tend to lead to a significant promotion of the overall condition of humanity in the world.
　　Actually, on the one hand, considerable advances have been made by people in all aspects of technology, which usually take people to associate with a variety of development in fields such as space technology, medicine, information technology etc. On the other hand, the fact that in many areas of the world the condition of humanity is seemly no better than ever before despite so many technological progresses, may give people such impression that they are still suffering from a myriad of conflicts, terrorism, reign of terror, etc. It seems that the development of technology has done nothing to help improve the condition of humanity.
　　In addition, in some areas, the significant progress of technology not only has resulted in little promotion in humanity, but also tends to, in the opposite direction, put the condition of humanity to an even worse level.
　　UAs is known to all, cultural and political conflicts or even wars have never stopped; the problems of nuclear weapons and biochemical weapons, that severely threaten all the people in the world and concern a large number of countries become increasingly sophisticate; and terroristic raids are far more horrible and violent than ever before, due to which perhaps no American individuals would forget the day of Sep. 11 in 2001 when the highest two buildings on the Earth were damaged by terrorists, leaving all people in the USA with horrible feelings.
　　UNo one could deny that all of these problems are to a large extent connected with technological innovations.
　　However, as a matter of fact, those inharmonies of humanity conditions are only within a small part in the whole world, and the overall condition of humanity has literally improved at the same pace with the development of technology. UJ ust consider the conditions of disabled individuals, for example, and you will find that, those who have lost one of his/her legs or even both his/her two legs are still able to lead a common individual's life without that difficulty, due to a significant development of medicine technology. Also, because of the progress of space technology and computer science, it becomes increasingly convenient for different individuals from all over the world to communicate with each other more directly, deeply and thoughtfully, which to some extent, avoids some mutual cultural misunderstanding and culture conflicts, even wars. Besides, with the improvement of scientific research and medicine, people all over the world are able to strike together with severe illnesses such as SARS and Bird Flu, both of which are new widespread infectious diseases in the first several years of the 20st century.
　　UAll the above shows considerably better condition of humanity resulted from the development of technology.
　　In sum, even though that wars, conflicts, violence, and poverty are still with us, yet only in a small number of areas in the world. Actually, technology development has contributed a large part to the promotion of the overall condition of humanity. As a result, the present humanity conditions are far more better than any other period in the past.