Technology is the knowledge of the process and
techniques that transforms the abstract ideas of scientists and mathematicians
into a concrete reality. It is the ‘know-how’ that enables us to extract the
raw materials and then convert them into fuel, steel, chemicals. Plastics and
food. Technology is also concerned with perfection of industrial processes,
with mass production and automation. The advancing technology implies pollution,
the exhaustion of natural resources and lack of workers’ satisfaction in
automated factories. Thus technology is a two-edged weapon.
The chemical industry has grown a lot in the 19th
and 20th centuries. It turned natural rubber into a material to be used on an
industrial scale. New discoveries like plastic artificial fibers and synthetics
were industrialized. Dynamo and electric motors gave fillip to technological
development. Early in the 20th century, Henry Ford, the American industrialist,
added a new dimension to industrial technology-that of sheer scale. These
developments in technology led to serious problem of unemployment, squandering
of material resources and social dislocation.
Biotechnology, the manipulation of man’s own boy made
spectacular advances after the Second World War. Arrays of drugs to combat
diseases were produced. By saving lift, it contributed to the population
explosion. Tranquilizers, stimulants and psycho therapeutic drugs controlling mental
processes were of great value in the hands of the medical profession but
created a great social problem when they became generally available.
Computers have opened up new vistas. These can make
any number of calculations; modes of particular hypothetical situations can be produced
and studied. These have created the problem of unemployment. Sometimes
mechanical calculations may do harm to other people and nations. Space
technology poses great danger to the world if it is used for polluting the atmosphere.
That is why pollution has become an international problem. Now every country is
worried about pollution. It in only because modern technology there is no doubt
that it has created a lot of problem.
Technology has made man mechanical in outlook,
ruthless in attitude, materialistic in thinking and cold and calculating in behaviors.
Thus, technology has created psychological, social –and other problems.
Moreover technology has made man of part of the
machine. Even in his leisure, has no time to enjoy. He has to work. He has gone
away from nature because of this technology. There is no difference between man
and machine. So we can say that technology has created more problems.