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The Ethics of Technological Progress If you stop for a moment and think about the number of technological wonders you use every day, you will most likely be surprised by the number of devices you take for granted. You listen to music through your iPod or other MP3 playback device; watch movies on your way to work on a tablet or portable phone; talk to your relatives who reside on another side.
The Key Role of Technological Progress in Economic Growth A key determinant of economic growth is technology, or ways or combining resources to produce goods and services.New management techniques, scientific discoveries, and other innovations improve technology.Technological advances allow the production of more output from a given amount of resources.
Scientific and technological inventions are for the benefit of mankind. It is for us to use them to bring progress and happiness in society. What we require is judicial use of resources at our proposal, banish war and confrontation and adopt methods of sustainable development. We need to enforce strict discipline to stop unscrupulous and illegal use of technologies.
As the rythm of progress seems to have accelerated these last few decades with an ever faster increase of major technological and scientific breakthroughs, the cult of novelty and progress is now being questioned. Indeed, a growing number of people voice their concern about the ethical, social and environmental consequences of such development and about the excesses of today’s consumer.
Scientific progress is defined as an advancement or improvement of existing knowledge. Today, scientific progress is mostly defined in the terms of technological advancements. To decide whether scientific progress is always good, we must understand how scientific progress has been treated throughout the ages.
In the essay “Face of an Angel”, author David Sheritt overviews the progress of black actors in Hollywood through critiques of leading black filmmakers and critiques. These people, like filmmaker and director Spike Lee, are so invested in the progress that their critiques come across as harsh such as when Lee said that a character from The Green Mile merely filled the role of a modern day.
This aspect of technological progress is important as the capabilities of many digital electronic devices are strongly linked to Moore’s Law. Below I will show how aspects as diverse as processing speed, product price, memory capacity, and even the number and size of pixels in digital cameras have also been progressing exponentially. The law was described as early as 1965 by the Intel co.