Tech abuse and misuse

Technology. Indeed, it makes life comfortable. But, surely, technology has a price. It's expensive and it entails a lot of responsibilities and maturity.

With the Internet, we can travel around the world without moving from our place. But it can also manipulate our opinion and perception in life. Without us knowing it, our views change when we are exposed to information from around the globe. Conservative teenagers suddenly become liberated upon exposure to pornographic and sexual materials online. Honest students who used to read books and paraphrase suddenly learn to plagiarize due to the vast amount of sources available in a click of a mouse. Many do not know that the Internet was created to serve military purpose and not really on file-sharing. Oooppss, this file-sharing thing concerns a lot of issues like fair use, respect to copyright law and industry profit or loss of profit, to be direct.

With medical technology, people who don't believe in the sanctity of life inside the womb suddenly abort babies twice, three or even four times. Why not? It's easy to abort a baby with technology. In fact, in China, it was reported that teenagers are abusing the One-child policy law by aborting unwanted babies, although the law originally favors the married couples who bear their second child. Check out my blog entry on this topic here.

Also, it's not uncommon to find a woman who would want to preserve her eggs until the date that she is perfectly ready to have a baby. This is possible through "oocyte cryopreservation" or egg freezing. But this method was originally created for the benefit of cancer patients who are facing infertility following chemotherapy and radiation. Now, even healthy women are free to enjoy this kind of technology. Check out Daren Briscoe's article on this site.

The obvious scenario here is that although a technological advancement is meant to deal with one specific problem, people are using tech for other purposes -- most of the time with no respect to its original purpose anymore. I call it tech abuse and misuse.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with the technology that scientists and experts are continuously discovering but we should reflect on the social, ethical and legal implication of how we consume technology. Sometimes, the technology-aided-life is not the best choice but only a lucrative option.

pix fr www.asymptote.co.uk.

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