Challenges Of Science And Technology

People are thriving in an unprecedented world nourished by modern culture and civilization. The rapid growth of science and technology nowadays is a unique characteristic of modern culture and civilization. Scientific and technological advances offer modern people the opportunity to adapt, modify, and even create our new world. Meanwhile, the enormous world-changing power that science and technology bring to our modern society accompanies with great concerns. Is the development of science and technology beyond our expectation and threatening our society? Significant challenges still await us, and increasing need from our society and the public still urge the expeditious advancement of sciences and technology in all aspects. Environmental pollution, climate change, population growth, and global public health crisis are posing severe challenges to our modern world. Although governments have applied educational and political strategies in response, rapid advances in scientific research on clean energy, pollution reduction, and frontier medicine are still the most effective way …show more content…
Huge challenges that we are facing locally and globally have dictated that we cannot impede scientific research and technological breakthroughs. Nevertheless, ethics needs and potential risks followed by should not jeopardize the advances in science and technology such as inventions of new artificial intelligences, breakthroughs of new therapeutic approaches, and efforts in exploring the universe. Careful consideration of ethics and wise prediction of consequences could help us overcome the negative impact accompanied by science and technology. Without the supports from scientific and technological progress, our society will be vulnerable, and the future of our entire civilization will stagnate. To science and technology, we can still go