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Running head: ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY: TECHNOLOGY
Argumentative Essay: Technology
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1ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY: TECHNOLOGY
Introduction
Literature through the ages have argued that technology has brought more negative
consequences in humanity than any blessing. In this regard, the ancient stories of Icarus or
Faust legend is referred to aggressively to describe the fall of human who desired too much
modern technology. The horrors of the two World Wars also indicate to the same conclusion.
Despite that, technology at present, is focused on development and constructive purposes
rather than destruction. This essay will argue that the intrinsic purpose of developing
technology is to modernize society by reducing labor and inventing medical reinforcements
to help humanity and that the negative consequences led by the occasional misemployment
can be controlled though the progress of society, moral construction and regulations. This
essay presents arguments on behalf of the benevolent effects of technology and argues that
the negative consequences that are so highlighted can be controlled through moral
development and regulations.
ARGUMENT 1: REDUCE LABOR
The main purpose of invention and creating new technologies have been to reduce human
labor and make lives easier. Since the introduction of the simple machines, the aim has been
to simplify the lives of people and reduce time for work (Spencer, 2018). Invention of
machines and technologies has made household work easier, factories produce more goods in
lesser time, reduce memorization and daily life more accessible. One of the greatest example
for this is the Alternative Intelligence (AI) technology. AI is machine intelligence which
enables machines to perform jobs that earlier required human intelligence or input. Since the
invention of AI, numerous movies and documentaries have been made to showcase the
negative impacts of it on humanity while very few promote the modernizing impacts of the
same (Agrawal, Gans & Goldfarb, 2019). AI has enabled technologies such as self-driven

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cars and airplanes, weather forecasting, calamity foretelling and many such latest
technologies that are benefitting the human civilization by informing about floods, tsunamis
and other natural disasters beforehand and helping avoid accidents, thus saving millions of
lives. These aspects of technologies are not highlighted much as society is rather taken with
the middle aged fear of technology (Letouzé & Pentland, 2018).
ARGUMENT 2: construct civilization
Technology has also been used through ages as constructive machinery to humanity
and society in terms of civilization building. More often than not, the use of technology has
been to construct civilization and develop nations. The inventions of construction tools and
new technologies to build more sustainable cities shows that the inherent aim of technology is
benevolent. One of the most obvious example is the invention of internet. The effects of
internet have increased connectivity among people and has made the world a global village.
There have been many negative usages of it but none of them has been so great that it can be
dismissed altogether. Therefore, understanding the motivations for positive and negative use
of technology is argumentative while it is true that technology itself is invented for good.
(ARGUMENT 3: MEDICAL/HEALTHCARE)
The advent of technology also benefits the medical levels which helps to save
numerous lives of people. The stem cell technology is a typical example to illustrate this
point. Stem cell technology has increased the infant survival rate and is a technology that is
extremely futuristic (Krueger et al., 2018). By creating and storing stem cells, many of the
untreatable diseases can be fought. Diseases like Alzheimer’s, heart diseases, Strokes,
Diabetes, Cancer and HIV have possible solutions in future through the stem cell research.
Spinal and other neurological diseases, Parkinson’s have no present solution and these kind
of medicinal and biotechnological research are answers to future medicinal advancement and