Technology On The Rise We live in a world of industrialization. Things are changing by the second and humanity is learning to adapt and keep up with the times. There have been so many remarkable advances that have made society stronger and more knowledgeable. There have also been advances that...

Technology is changing the world as we know it. Not all of these advances in technology are viewed as positive. One of the breakthroughs that have received mixed responses is the issue of cloning. There has been much debate on this topic, and the debate is certain to rage on for many years to come. ...

Spring lingers in Alaska and the glaciers in the Sierras are melting - bringing with the sense of possible doom as well as a reminder that the technology that is the lifeblood of the modern world comes at a distinct price. But while we might think that the hand-wringing that is ...

Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" In the 1930's Aldous Huxley wrote his novel "Brave New World". It was in this time, when the world made the first steps towards huge scientific and technological advances. These advances were not only seen as evidence for progress, ...

A genre normally has a set list of possible themes in there narratives. Science fiction has a few strong themes running throughout the history of this recently popular genre; science fiction wasn't popularized until the 1950's. Most science fiction tales have a prophetic nature and are o...

Few scientists have been as influential or as controversial as Charles Darwin has. He is considered by many to be the father of the theory of evolution. He knew that there was a great deal of variation among members of a species and that some of these variation made individuals more fit to survive...

As a human race, we have pursued constant technological progression and advancement. Indeed, our claim to the title of "superior race" can be attributed in part to the fervor in which we go about improving our own existence through invention and discovery. Thanks to advances in medicin...

CLONING The advance of technology has awakened an enormous potential for both good and evil. Within the last two decades scientists have developed great advances in science about reproduction and genetic engineering leading to cloning. This has created sharpest controversies involving opposing ...

Should Human Cloning Be Permitted? For years, part of the American public, and humans in general, have been fascinated with the possibility of creating human li...

Artificial Intelligence and Singularity Within the next thirty to fifty years, there will be technological means on earth which can create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after this occurrence, humans will no longer be needed to run the world and therefore the human era will be extinct. The ques...

Tremendous advances in knowledge and medical technology have been made over the past century. Major breakthroughs in the field of medicine and engineering have produced more new equipment and procedures than ever before. The problem is that with all this technology comes the issue of cloning. Peop...

Since the late seventies scientists have been cloning mammals using cells taken from embryos. In July 1996, medical history was made when a sheep named Dolly was cloned. The only thing that set Dolly the sheep apart from the other clones was that she was cloned from an adult sheep cell. Befor...

You did not read the title wrong. It is cloning, not clowns. And this is no laughing matter. As technology advances and scientists and engineers become more and more clever, we must be careful not to take God's place in creation by making copies of ourselves. Webster defines a clone as "the aggreg...

Genetic Engineering Anti-technologists and political extremists misinform, and over exaggerate statements that genetic engineering is not part of the natural order of things. The moral question of genetic engineering can be answered by studying human evolution and the idea of survival of the fi...

Euthanasia Introduction Over the past couple of decades, changes in medical technology have allowed physicians to prolong an individual's life than ever before. Individuals are now able to live a longer and healthier life with the help of respirators and other medical machines. We may consid...

The Age of Spiritual Machines presents a history of computers, looking at how past trends in computing have led to today's personal machines. Author Ray Kurzweil then goes beyond history to look towards the future. Most audiences are familiar with the notion that computers will one day thi...

A Solution to the Problem: Governmental Banning of Human Cloning Governmental Banning on human and organ cloning is posing a problem on those educated ones in academia. Researcher and scientist Dr. Ian Wilmut has successfully cloned a sheep, and has gathered from this experiment evidence that...

The Cloning War: Moral or Immoral? Outside the lab where the cloning had actually taken place, most of us thought it could never happen. Oh we would say that perhaps at some point in the distant future, cloning might become feasible through the use of sophisticated biotechnologies far beyond th...

GREATEST INVENTION When asked what is the most important invention, many questions come to mind, and these inquiries must be answered before responding to the initial question. What is meant by the word "invention"? Essentially, anything that did not exist previously, whether it is a me...

I have often wondered what I would be like if certain things in my checkered past had not occurred. What would I be like if I had been brought up in a stable environment or had gone to a different school, or not walked out the door on a specific day? What ifs of life that if we actually sat and thou...

Stem Cell Research August 9th was a big day for our country and what the future will hold for stem cell research. "The U.S. conducts more than 90% of the world's biomedical research, with this decision to not fund all stem cell research we will most likely fall behind the world in this ...

Mary Shelley's Cloning If we look at Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, cloning and the moral issues surrounding it become prevalent. The creature in the novel was in essence and by definition a human clone. The real monster in the story, though, was doctor Frankenstein himself. He attemp...

Picture that there are two people who decide to have a child. They discussed and settled upon allowing nature to decide how their child will turn out. Time passed and once again they wanted another child, but this time they choose to let science do the deciding. They scheduled an appointment w...

One of the most touchy aspects of our relationship with animals is the use of animals in laboratory sciences. Some manufactures of cosmetics and household products still conduct painful and useless tests on live animals, even though no law requires them not to. Some people, called anti-vivisectionis...