Science is a Blessing or a Curse

Title: Science is a Blessing or a Curse
Category: Science & Technology | Words: 3284 | Pages: 14.0 (approximately 235 words/page)

Science is a Blessing or a Curse

More refined technologies brought huge improvements in the quality of life, but also in weapons of mass destruction. Explosives and vacuum cleaners, artillery and the microwave oven. Accurate and sophisticated theories about the nature of the universe were thought up, and then World War 2 started. Thus began the Nuclear Age - you could also call it the Age of Fear. Nuclear weapons, electronics, computers. From then on, scientific research progressed at an exponential rate. Moreover, computing …showed first 75 words of 3284 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 3284 total…not malevolent intelligences. They would say that we would lose our individuality and society would become homogenised. As for losing our individuality, on the contrary, we are expanding it. There is a difference between homogenisation and communication, and it is easy to mistake understanding and empathy for the former. We have nothing to lose, but everything to gain with artificial telepathy, for what greater beauty is there than to be able to touch another soul?

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