The Impact Of Social Inventions On Society

When one thinks of an invention we can imagine and pick out examples of wonderful and animate objects that have made a positive impact on society and the community. In many ways the inventions that have been created over history have contributed to the beneficial evolution of humanity, such as health care inventions like vaccines or technological inventions such as cars or phones. The important aspect is that these inventions focus on creating objects in particular that ease the way in which society functions, but not all inventions have achieved this positive impact. Two themes easily overlooked on the subject of invention itself is the difficulty of achieving a useful invention in order to revolutionize and better humanity and the idea that despite good intentions these inventions …show more content…
The People’s Temple founded by Jim Jones was an example of a progressive social invention of a cult community which started out as positive invention in which it was known for its non-discriminatory religious community and whose goal was to restore the lives of vulnerable individuals dealing with a variety of problems such as mental health or drug abuse. However, unlike the Eye-Live, the invention’s negative consequences came about as a function of its deliberate evolution dictated by its increasing focus on control exerted by Jim Jones. Although the psychological impact of the invention was to restore and help those vulnerable communities and promote the tolerance of any culture in society, the deliberate choices of these vulnerable communities was intended for the invention of a community based on control and dominance rather than helping these communities and allowing freedom to dictate the positive impact of the social