Sacrifice Me For The Comfort Research Paper
Cynthia Bibina
ENG 101-039
Sarah Stephens
11 April 2017
Essay #3
Sacrifice Me For The Comfort Fifty thousand years ago, a few amount of Homo sapiens left their area of origin from Africa to the occidental world. These men exploited the fauna and flora in an ever more efficient way. They have undoubtedly also set new forms of social organization. With the sedentary lifestyle and under pressure of natural selection, they tried to make life easier and more comfortable. The growing crops and raising livestock of plants and animals, and then the advent of hierarchized societies have accelerated innovation further, leading to the hyper-technological world of today. Technology is increasingly present in our daily lives: internet, smart phones, and …show more content…
The man is not only the Homo sapiens, the thinker but also the Homo Faber, the maker. His intelligence helps him to make supplies to better his conditions of life and develop his competencies not without transmitting his technicity to future generations. The word tool from the Latin, ustensillis, meaning useful. The individual devices result from the transformation of the raw materials. The objective is to create physical and intellectual goods useful to men. The animal uses the parts of its body like the claws for the feline, to attack and kill its prey. For the animal, the use of the tool derives from the instinct, and solely for the survival of the species. In another hand, for the man, the use of instruments is much more complex. The technological process begins by an afterthought, then a methodical work. Used transformed natural or human created materials allow producing precisely objects. Human productions are not only about survival but also about improvement. That is why there is a social collaboration between individuals to transmit acquired knowledge and to perfect it. For humans, the technology allows them to open up to new dimensions. In making all these tools man seeks to affirm his existence and power. Through history, we have gone from the simple technique that is based on an empirical …show more content…
Transhumanists would like to obtain from technology capacities that humans do not currently have, without making an effort to build, physically or spiritually, to develop them from the interior. To assert that there would be a higher stage of the human being, accessible only by technology, is at the bottom, to consider that the natural person is disabled. Sherry turkle added that, "Technology is seductive when what it offers meets our human vulnerabilities." So innovations are almost always presented from the reassuring angle of a handicap to be compensated. A desire of aid justifies these inventions, but at a long run, it tends to think that humans are biologically deficient. They must be increased. This theory is a rather delicate notion. It has begun since the appearance of man and is part of continuity. For example, the bottle is an increased breast; the hammer is a substitute hand, the mouse as the prosthesis of an index that points. This generation of innovation is external tools that can be grasped and used. They do not change our relationship to the world. They just allow us to act more efficiently. Currently the relationship with technology is inverse. The machine is no longer external. The man is inside it. It has become the world in which it lives, thinks, seduces, plays, exchanges. We are faced with a break that upsets the relationship with others, the world and ourselves. The
ENG 101-039
Sarah Stephens
11 April 2017
Essay #3
Sacrifice Me For The Comfort Fifty thousand years ago, a few amount of Homo sapiens left their area of origin from Africa to the occidental world. These men exploited the fauna and flora in an ever more efficient way. They have undoubtedly also set new forms of social organization. With the sedentary lifestyle and under pressure of natural selection, they tried to make life easier and more comfortable. The growing crops and raising livestock of plants and animals, and then the advent of hierarchized societies have accelerated innovation further, leading to the hyper-technological world of today. Technology is increasingly present in our daily lives: internet, smart phones, and …show more content…
The man is not only the Homo sapiens, the thinker but also the Homo Faber, the maker. His intelligence helps him to make supplies to better his conditions of life and develop his competencies not without transmitting his technicity to future generations. The word tool from the Latin, ustensillis, meaning useful. The individual devices result from the transformation of the raw materials. The objective is to create physical and intellectual goods useful to men. The animal uses the parts of its body like the claws for the feline, to attack and kill its prey. For the animal, the use of the tool derives from the instinct, and solely for the survival of the species. In another hand, for the man, the use of instruments is much more complex. The technological process begins by an afterthought, then a methodical work. Used transformed natural or human created materials allow producing precisely objects. Human productions are not only about survival but also about improvement. That is why there is a social collaboration between individuals to transmit acquired knowledge and to perfect it. For humans, the technology allows them to open up to new dimensions. In making all these tools man seeks to affirm his existence and power. Through history, we have gone from the simple technique that is based on an empirical …show more content…
Transhumanists would like to obtain from technology capacities that humans do not currently have, without making an effort to build, physically or spiritually, to develop them from the interior. To assert that there would be a higher stage of the human being, accessible only by technology, is at the bottom, to consider that the natural person is disabled. Sherry turkle added that, "Technology is seductive when what it offers meets our human vulnerabilities." So innovations are almost always presented from the reassuring angle of a handicap to be compensated. A desire of aid justifies these inventions, but at a long run, it tends to think that humans are biologically deficient. They must be increased. This theory is a rather delicate notion. It has begun since the appearance of man and is part of continuity. For example, the bottle is an increased breast; the hammer is a substitute hand, the mouse as the prosthesis of an index that points. This generation of innovation is external tools that can be grasped and used. They do not change our relationship to the world. They just allow us to act more efficiently. Currently the relationship with technology is inverse. The machine is no longer external. The man is inside it. It has become the world in which it lives, thinks, seduces, plays, exchanges. We are faced with a break that upsets the relationship with others, the world and ourselves. The