Advantages and disadvantages os science and technology

Task 1: Read the statements and fill in the table.

Advantages	Disadvantages
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• The vast improvements made in the field of medicine have served to lengthen our life expectancy and to reduce the rate of infant mortality. 
• In transportation, railway, modern ocean liner, jet plane, and motor vehicle have made our lives more comfortable and provided great possibilities for modern commercial development and industrialization. 
• The invention of the computer has assisted the process of calculation in laboratories 
• Technology has made communication much simpler in recent times. 
• Science has brought about groundbreaking solutions to numerous deadly diseases. 
• Man is able to explore the space extensively because of the wide-scale development in technology. 
• Factories have led to slums where human beings live in squalor. 
• Machines have led to unemployment. 
• Our life has become healthier and longer. 
• Modern hygiene, sanitation, medicine and surgery are conquering more and more physical and mental ills day by day. We now know and experience the joys of good health and longevity. 

• They have polluted water and atmosphere. They have caused noise pollution. 
• Our moral and spiritual progress has failed to keep pace with our scientific progress. 
• We have allowed science to master us instead of using it as our servant. 
• Again, science has put in our hand’s such fiendish weapons as a nuclear bomb, the guided missile and means of chemical and biological warfare. 
• Machines make us mechanical, deaden our sensibilities, stifle our creative talents, force mechanical regularity, uniformity and boredom upon us, increase our wants and desires, and tend to make us selfish, greedy and cruel. 
• Geographical distance has, no doubt, vanished, but the gulf between the minds and hearts of man has widened. 
• Machines have given man leisure, but man misuses it to get cheap and vulgar entertainment which destroys his physical and mental health.

Task 2: TRUE or FALSE

1.      People live longer today due to the development of science and technology.

2.      Communication between people has become more complicated nowadays.

3.      Doctors are able to cure many serious illnesses with the development of science.

4.      It’s a big problem to explore the space now.

5.      People can lose their jobs because of the development of science and technology.

6.      One of the biggest problems of scientific progress is pollution.

7.      Machines make us better, more sensitive and creative.