Sample Essay On Science Fiction, Technology, And Our Modern World

1). Perfection knows no bounds. That is what nowadays scientists may think about their activity. Treatment of infertility concerns many people, in particular women. That is why there have been developed a lot of methods of how to solve this problem. PGD, choosing child’s gender, picking out negative genes, etc. seem to be a positive and desirable science discovery. Nevertheless, the question is what would be the individuality of a person? Following standards and having the opportunity of changing the human’s nature, one may create an ideal person and make others the same. We are all individual. How our society would change, if everybody were identically perfect owing to the modern technology? It is scary that people who have more knowledge would be able to control others’ lives. Thus, one should not decide what kind of a person he/she should be. The question also remains to be answered: how would we be able to be considered as human beings if we were created in a lab?
2). Radical enhancement always influences a person. There are numerous examples when people wanted to change their lives and used for that purpose the radical enhancement. As a result their whole lives turned upside down. Thus, there are more and more cases when people decide to change their gender. Thus, it is a direct evidence of how radical may be the enhancement. Except for that, one should understand even small changes may lead to serious results in his/her life. Thus, it is necessary for a person to realize what changes he/she wants to make and what it leads to. As every turn makes our life different, every interruption in human’s life changes it and it is only the person’s decision whether to do it or not.