WILL ARTIFICIAL HUMAN ENHANCEMENT SOLVE OUR PROBLEMS?

 

Nowadays, technology plays a very important role in our lives. Day by day we are surprised with new discoveries and experiments with extraordinary results. But isn't this situation getting out of control?

I believe that creating things like robots or microchips to put inside people's brains is for sure a big scientific development, but is it safe to merge a person with technology and interfere with the body's balance? I don't think scientists should manipulate what has been a human being for thousands of years.

Don't get me wrong! Of course, I agree that many technological developments are important for humankind. For example, in the medical field, more specifically in performing surgeries. Without technology, our lifespan would be much shorter because we wouldn't have enough resources to fight diseases and save people's lives.

What I don't agree with is the use of science to create another type of human being, with unlimited strength, wisdom and speed, because to do this scientists have to change people's genetics and implant microchips inside their brains.

We don't know the consequences of these actions and if they can lead to severe brain damage, behavioural change and way of thinking and interfere with our social interactions!

Why do I have this opinion? Because the brain is the main part of our body and it controls everything we do. Of course, in theory, the idea of creating a perfect version of a human is amazing, but making this a real thing is dangerous and unsafe.

In conclusion, I don't think the artificial human enhancement is the key to solving our problems and in my point of view, it will bring more negative than positive consequences.

text and illustration by Maria Margarida Nunes, nº 19, 10º B

PROJECT WORKS -10th B (1st term)

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TRUE / FALSE 

The unlikely hero

 The unlikely hero

John Keats - English Poet

 

“To Autumn” (1819)

                Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,

Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.

Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap’d furrow sound asleep,
Drows’d with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.

Where are the songs of spring? Ay, Where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,—
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

John Keats

(1795-1821) 

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