Faustian Bargain Essay

So, what is the Faustian bargain? According to Wiktionary, “an agreement in which a person abandons his or her spiritual values or moral principles in order to obtain wealth or other benefits.” There is a lot examples of new inventions-or new technologies- that start with enthusiasm, then, it brings negative consequences sooner or later. Drugs suppose to save lives; however, you could always find its side effects on the outer package. Hydraulic fracturing is commonly applied to wells for shale gas, tight gas, tight oil, and coal seam gas, which is designed to greatly increase the flow rate, and reduce the pollution during the process of producing, compared to the conventional method, however, its reverse side is that it would cause ground water contamination, risks to air quality, small scale of earthquake, and so on. There are two sides to cell phone. Cell phones that help us be more productive, offer us enormous freedom to communicate quicker and easier. Yet the reverse side of the Faustian bargain is that people find themselves at the …show more content…
Cell phone manufacturers always make the advertising of their new products pretty cool; attracting their loyal customers and potential customers’ attention; by using a lot of complicated scientific terminology to describe the new technologies which being fed into the phones. The reason apple set iPhone on such a high price is because that is a lot of money; then again, the price includes a cell phone, video iPod, email terminal, web browser, camera, alarm clock, palm-type organizer and one heck of a status symbol. Holding a smart phone, especially an iPhone is considered a standard of fashion, it means you live in the present, which happened in China. School kids ask their parents to buy one for them in order to catch up the trends without thinking of the conditions of their families’