JOB PRESENTATION

Effects of technology

During the last decades, some observers have begun to warn about some results of the technology that also have destructive and harmful aspects. From the 1970s to the 1980s, the number of these negative outcomes has increased and their problems have reached public outreach. Observers noted, among other dangers, that automobile exhaust pipes were polluting the atmosphere, that global resources were being used beyond their means, that pesticides such as DDT threatened the food chain, and that A wide variety of industrial resources were contaminating groundwater reserves.

In recent decades, it has been argued that the environment has been so damaged by technological processes that one of the greatest challenges of modern society is the search for places to store the large amount of waste that is produced. The problems caused by the technology are the consequence of the inability to predict or evaluate its possible negative consequences. The advantages and disadvantages of the technology will continue to be weighed, while taking advantage of its results.