Fortune, Faith, Future

As Freeman Dyson's "Can Science Be Ethical?" have said, technology is basically doing harm for our world. He questions the use of technology and gave explicit examples of technology and how it was used in the past and the present. To be able to disagree with his argument will not be an easy task to accomplish. His idea and argument makes sense in many ways, but I believe whether science can be ethical or not can be varied. The prime example is the short story "Harrison Bergeron" by Vonnegut and the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. In both these stories, we are introduced in a society of technical advanced equipments that is used to alternate the society and its people. Freeman Dyson constantly argues the fact that technology only does good for the rich but not the poor. This may not be true. Technology in my definition, is to provide support and enables less work to be performed in the society, but the technology created in both of these stories are actually implied towards the people directly. It does not do them any good, but rather confines them of their abilities. They are neither rich, nor poor to begin with.