INEVITABILITY OF THE TITANIC
The Titanic. The first major technological disaster of the twentieth century. What exactly went wrong? Could this tragedy have been avoided? With the new technologies we have today, we have found out to almost the tiniest detail about the events of the sinking of the Titanic. With this new information, and knowing the technology was available at the time to avoid this accident, we can then explore the reasons why it had to happen. Human neglect had to play a huge role in this event. And in that case, why? I will be analyzing these ideas in relation to articles read in class throughout the paper. In the article Technological Momentum, Hughes suggests that technology shapes and is shaped by society. I believe this stands true in the case of the Titanic. The fact that an inadequate number of lifeboats road on the Titanic because of the desire for glass-enclosed observation lounges, suites, and palm courts for the wealthy travelers is an example of this. The technology for more lifeboats was there but was not used because of society's desire to not use them. The boat itself (technology) was designed to hold the riches people on the planet (society). Its grand facilities included a swimming pool, a squash court, and a T
Back to the Titanic, even though Berry doesn't want to build a ship that transports thousands of people and supplies across oceans for various relative "important" reasons doesn't mean we shouldn't do it. But each time something is built, it must first be researched, developed, constructed, and tested. He wanted to get to New York faster than any other ship had before because he was greedy, had too much pride in the ship, was conceited in the fact that he thought the ship couldn't be sunk, and he wanted to be the biggest and the best in the world. We would've then never learned the invaluable things we did because of this tragedy. Society was then shaped by technology when the technology failed. Binoculars existed in 1912 and if the watchmen had them, they could've seen the ice burg from a lot farther distance and could have turned in time before they hit the ice burg. Can we count the costs of this disaster? One possible way to measure it is in human life. The captain is an example of all of these things in this event. They had the belief that, "if it can be done, it must be done. This idea is very ignorant for the fact that there are many more professions out there that what Wendell Berry does for a living and for certain jobs you absolutely need computers to get work done. It was basically bound to happen so I condone neither ship for its actions.
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