With the swift improvement of our modern society, people’s lifestyles and hence, the environment of the earth alter rapidly. There is a general controversy nowadays on the topic whether progress is always good? Then it’s turned out to be an extremely hot debate resulting from those respective opinions we owned toward this issue. Today, people in ever-increasing numbers are beginning to recognize that progress has already hampered us. Whereas, others argue that along with progress, inevitably comes convenience. As far as I’m concerned, although I think all above notions are reasonable to some extent, I’m still inclined to believe that progress is not really always good.
Automobiles, probably the most prestigiously important invention of modern life, has brought comfort and greater mobility to people’s lives, just to be fair. Yet, we can’t be blind to the prices we have to pay for owning this progress. These prices include emission of greenhouse gases from the exhaust pipes of cars and the acoustic pollution produced by automobiles are constantly disturbing people’s peace and quiet in normal life. Greater mobility is crippled by increasing number of car ownerships and consequently growing traffic jams. These traffic jams, the dear child of modern transportation, is causing head-aching problems to people, as their schedules are messed up because they were caught it traffic congestion. People can’t make it to work on time. They can’t sleep at night unless they close all their windows. After a while, I think people are losing patience.
How should people deal with these serious problems and what is the origin of these problems? Undeniably, they are due to the development of transportation. And it’s extraordinarily significant for all of us to realize its potential dangers and point them out. We may take almost all the office clerks and students, me included, who has to go to work every day, for example. When we encounter a traffic jam, we have to get off the car and run as fast as possible to go to office or school on time. And when we work or study, the noise made by cars outside the window disturbs us constantly. Therefore, all indisputable evidence piles up to show that with the progress of transportation, people has to tolerate the consequence of it and we don’t feel much happier now than before where there were not so many cars in the street. People become less patient and cranky
In the second place, we’ll take an excellent example of the very dear child of modern technological advances, the computer. Admittedly, computers have become our hands. And without them, we feel quite incapable of performing office tasks. In this sense, the computer as a progress does bring us convenience. Yet, we have also witnessed many issues of computer viruses or computer-related crimes that notoriously affected the normal orders of people’s work and lives. According to a news report released by China Daily, it says that many viruses prevalent today are programmed to damage the computer by breaking programs, deleting files, or reformatting the hard disk. And others are not designed to do any damage, but to simply replicate themselves and make their presence known by presenting text, video, and audio messages. They take up system resources and result in system crashes. Finally, these viruses may literally destroy people’s personal computer. Hence, examples I read of lead me to conclude that with more and more people using computers as an indispensable part of their lives, the number of viruses will also be increasing. Progress?
Yes. Problems? Ditto.
Obviously, considering the automobiles and computers above, we could safely draw the unshakable conclusion that progress is not always good for us. Notwithstanding, the advances of technology and transportation gives us much convenience in life. Howbeit, it does not mean progress is ALWAYS beneficial to people, and it causes much troubles to us from time to time.
