 From obvious benefits to hard to control technology Before the nineteenth century science did not make a big difference, and scientists were not professionally specialized at the time, for example, Newton was a mathematician, a physicist, a alchemist, a theologian. Beginning in the 19th century, professional scientists began to emerge, and at the same time, science began to be fully transformed into technologies such as electromagnetism, electricity and telecom industry, chemical industry, and experimental physiology into experimental medicine. Completely changed the face of human life, so the 19th century is the first century of human history. At that time, people were full of confidence in science, and everyone firmly believed that the development of science will allow us to solve one after another problems.People simply embrace science and eulogize it enthusiastically, so that the 19th century is another century of scientific romanticism. By the 20th century, science and technology have further developed and infiltrated every corner of human life, and the basic theory of science and technology has become more and more abstracted and arduous, far behind our common sense and rationality in life, and allowing our world picture to have a certain degree of Confusion The emergence of the theory of relativity subverts our traditional view of time and space, and the worldview of the quantum theory invalidates our traditional law of law. More importantly, science and technology are no longer obviously beneficial to mankind, people are beginning to realize the adverse consequences of science and technology.With the intervention of science, the two world wars have witnessed an unprecedented death toll and an unprecedented high efficiency of destruction.The World War II even used Nuclear weapons, such weapons of mass destruction as the extreme, have gradually emerged in environmental pollution, ecological destruction and energy depletion, and new problems have emerged in an endless stream as human beings embrace science and technology and are also beginning to fear and fear their power. Today, the consequences of technological development, both good and bad, have become so serious that human beings can not imagine and surpass the effective control of mankind. The foundation of human civilization is actually very fragile From the perspective of influence, there are two major events in the 20th century that belong to the cosmic level and have the cosmological significance: the first is the release of nuclear energy and the second is the space flight. Some historians have said that one hundred years, one thousand years and even ten thousand years later, how would we evaluate the 20th century? If in a word, it is "this is the first human release of nuclear energy on Earth century." Nuclear energy is not a general energy but a result of the alternating operation of science, technology, society, history and military in the 20th century, and eventually Einstein finally realized that he could see the explosion of nuclear weapons in his lifetime. After the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, France and China all successively created nuclear weapons. During the cold war, the U.S. and Soviet arms race and the nuclear weapons on both sides together were enough to completely destroy the earth 30 times. Once asked Einstein, when did World War III hit? He answered playfully, when I did not know when to fight the Third World War, but if there was a fourth time, people used sticks and stones. Under the meaning of modern human civilization will be completely destroyed by nuclear weapons. Paradoxically, humankind has enjoyed a rare peace for half a century after the advent of nuclear weapons, but such peace is premised on a nuclear threat that not only upholds peace but also threatens peace. It can be said that what we have today Civilization is based on a very fragile basis. The same is true for spaceflight, which is not just about bringing humans into outer space or sending to the moon but rather a very strong military deterrent.If a country can send satellites to the moon and fly back, it means it has very high Of the electronic communications technology, which has a high degree of accuracy of missiles can be achieved where refers to the fight which air capabilities represent military capabilities.So, in the highly developed space technology today, everyone's head is hung with a The sword of Damocles falling. Technology and humanity can evolve out of control simultaneously The rapid development of modern technology, leading to the evolution of human and social evolution did not keep up with the pace of development of science and technology.If the body evolved rapidly, environmental pollution caused by technological development is not a problem PM2.5 will become a pollutant, because the body Has not evolved to a certain extent, science and technology development much faster than the speed of human evolution. Humans change the earth's ecological environment in only a few hundred years, and our body took millions of years to evolve into what it is today, which is a huge asymmetry. Similarly, past ethics and technology are matched, there are What kind of technology has what kind of ethics.With the rapid development of modern technology, leading to ethics can not keep up, so there have been many ethical issues. For example, the development of biotechnology poses a great challenge to the morality of mankind.A surrogate mother refuses to return the child to the parents of the fertilized egg after the child is born because of the pregnancy in October, and the child should be attributed to And who? This is a problem. Also, before the death of the last resort means that the official death, and now even if people have to breathe, rely on the respirator can resume breathing, and in the case of brain death to survive for several years, which is right Ethics of death posed challenges. How to solve the problem of unsynchronized development of technology and human evolution? The best solution is to slow down the pace of technological development and speed up the pace of cultural evolution.It is hard to slow down the pace of technological development because it is human nature to realize new technologies as soon as possible , In order to slow down the speed of mankind, we need greater self-control. At the same time, our society should not take conservatism in the face of new technologies, but rather speed up the pace of evolution. Only when technological progress and cultural evolution are synchronized can we The better, or only getting out of control. It is worth mentioning that many western countries have begun to notice the out-of-control situation of science and technology and therefore have intervened in a variety of ethics committees, and the lack of high-tech defenses and lack of scientific and technological ethics in China is a big issue. How to correctly understand high technology and cultivate the corresponding science and technology ethics is a problem that must be solved.
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