Summary Of Mara Hvistendahl's Essay Possible Man

With the advancement of technology that serves the purpose to overcome the problems of time and space. In the essay “Visible Man: Ethics in a World without Secrets”, Peter Singer states, “new technology has made greater openness possible” (Singer 463), has created an opportunity for people to gain more knowledge due to the access of information. Instead technology has resulted in a tool of misuse in society. In a global perspective, implications of gender imbalance have developed from easy access to fetal gender selective technology, as Mara Hvistendahl implies in her essay “Missing: 163 Million Women”, “pregnant women were taking advantage of a cheap and persuasive determination tool –ultrasound-- and aborting if the fetus turned out to be female” (Hvistendahl 250). She is emphasizes how in northwestern regions the impact of technology …show more content…
Singer claims, “with some social standards, the more people do something, the less risky it becomes for each individual” (Singer 463), which comes to show how Wikileaks is releasing the wrong type of information making other societies around the world think it is okay to misuse technology also because it is already happening. The United States is known for creating enhanced environment, thus we are accountable for the over accessibility with what should remain private. Also other countries such as Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia are currently responsible for unequal birth ratios like if it is the norm. In his essay, Hillary Clinton states, “WikiLeaks releases documents without regard for the consequences is, if not deliberately misleading, woefully ignorant” (qtd in Singer 465).This issue can be addressed properly by using WikiLeaks or other types of sousveillance to make evident that the problem is having access to the ultrasound and manipulating the chances of birth, which is already natural event in