In “Working gun made with 3D printer”, Morelle reports that the world’s first gun which created by 3D printer technology and made from ABS plastic had been successfully tested to fire real bullets in Texas, while all Americans still are ongoing debate about gun controls.
New technologies always become with many benefits which many people would like to use them; however, people might not realizes that the technologies are also have many disadvantages within themselves. Television, for example, when TV was newly invented, people found that it was a big changing because they can watch many news, TV shows or movies from TV instead of read novels or listen to radios. As time goes, people realize that their children might be get some disorder from watching TV too mush such as poor eye vision , Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders (ADHD) which is a syndrome that child who cannot focus on what he or she is doing and easily changes to do another activities instead.
When I was a child, many time I watched Doraemon’s cartoons on TV. One of the main characters is Doraemon. He usually has very useful tools that he and his friends can use to solve problems. One of the most favorite very useful tools is the machine that can crate real things from copying its pictures. Whether things or food, it can create both of them just put the picture into the machine. At that time, I thought that the copying machine did not exist in the real world and none can build this machine. At this time, I think I should rethink about it because nowadays the 3D printer technology can create what things we wanted even through the printers still cannot create food as the copying machine in Doraemon’s story did.
The serious question is that new technologies encourage people to do bad things or not. In my point of view, I strongly agree that new technologies do not encourage people to do something bad, but people do themselves. Some people change themselves into criminals which are caused form their behaviors. Moreover, many new technologies created very useful tools which some of tools can kill humans easily but, without humans and humans’ intention. Any tool cannot kill people by itself. Weapons, for example, are tools that people use them to kill others. However, without humans and humans’ intension, weapons cannot kill people by itself because they need people with their killed intension to use them. So, the 3D printer technology should not be banned from the cause that people use them to do something bad.
What do you think?
Do new technologies encourage people to do bad things or not?
Should we ban 3D printer?
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Reference
Morelle, R. (2013, May 6). Working gun
made with 3D printer. BBC News Science & Environment. Retrieved
May 7, 2013 from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22421185
I agree with the article that watching TV too much can result in the lack of full attention or concentration because it happened to me. I'm one of scores of TV addicts especially with freshly new technology Hi-def function. However, I personally hate the 3D technology since it always make me feel dizzy during watching. Certainly I also hate 4D.
ReplyDeleteI quite like 3D printer since it seems very useful (I don't mention about the gun). When I first studied about isometric, it was very hard for me to imagine how 2D shapes in paper turn to 3D (in my imagine). As a result, I spent a lot of time to figure them out. Practicing and being familiar with them helped me to know the relationship between 2D and 3D. Since most people comfortably see things in two dimensions, 3D is hard to visualise. I wish I had this printer when I study. It could save me a lot of time.
ReplyDeleteI like Bas's argument that the fact that something can be harmful or used to harm is not a good reason to ban it. Of course, this also rules out the popular argument for banning some drugs: but as Bas argues, just because heroin and yaa baa really are harmful is not a good enough reason to ban them any more than red wine, whisky or champage, and alcohol is actually more harmful than every illegal drug, which is a bit weird, and shows some serious problems with reason and justice in the drug laws.
ReplyDeleteIf the argument that something should be banned because it can be used to harm were a strong argument, cars would also have to be banned - they can be and are used to commit bank robberies, and cars kill a lot of people every year in Thailand.
So, what action is justified in response to something that is potentially harmful to the user or others?
People usually classify things which are good or bad from its benefits and drawbacks.
ReplyDeleteIf things have more benefit than drawbacks, people would believe that that thing is good. On the other hand, people believe things are bad, if things are not more its benefit than its drawbacks.
I think these behavior come from our aspects that we have about the thing.
And is that assessment of advantages and disadvantages based on evidence or on something else?
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