Does technology embrace moral choices? What is your choice then?

Technology is almost part of our life and we cannot deny it.

We all know that today that technology can add to the span of life of the dying individual but also it is one of the cause of life's span shortage of humans. But in the near future it could be implemented not only to animals but in the whole human kind. Long ago it was unpredictable, but with the flow of technology researches and inventions now-a-days, is it still unpredictable?

There is the medical technology that emerge and still undergone further research. Microchip implantation to human body has been in the track and is under experimentation. I have watch it in the television that an encapsulated microchip as tiny as the rice grain was implanted to a boy for experimentation. The danger of this encapsulated microchip in the human life is when the glass capsule would break and/or would have leakage...it may cause death. This case was discussed in one of our class meetings with our instructor's introduction, if you remember it. With the high amount of price money, would you convey the risk to be the subject of the experiment and be the experiment?

Cloning is another technology that had gained moral issues. The cloning existence was proved with successful experimentation to a sheep some years ago. Today, other animals is undergoing cloning. There were movies present that introduced cloning. Have you watched the movie 'the Island'? That is an example... What can you say about it? Could you allow yourself being cloned to be able to produced a child because you are a barren woman? Could you imagine your self being cloned because you need a fresh liver for your liver transplant? And after you have what you wanted, what would you do to your clone? Hmmm...

Technology is useful with its capabilities but it could also be dangerous and deceptive. Our future is just in front of us, and we are the one making the future, for us and for our children... Its our choices, its our decisions... and What is your choice?


Assignment 7 due: January 31, 2009