Are Our Technological Advancements Making The World A Better Place?

Are technological advancements improving our lives here on earth? Is technology in general making the world a better place?

Well, I think the advance of technology is helping us in some ways but harming us in others. For example, people are using technology so often and exclusively now that they're hardly able to get out into fresh air anymore. Some studies have even shown how some pieces of technology actually emit light traces of cancer causing radio waves or radiation (Top 20 cellphones that emit the most radiation). In addition to radio wave emission and some lack of proper exercise, technology advancements are also birthing some interesting malicious uses such as stealth technology for war machines, missile guidance systems, next generation weapons and attachments, even bioweapons are occasionally in use (Bioterrorism).

However, I believe the scale of most advantages for humanity from technology far surpass the disadvantages. The biggest example in this statement is medicine. For example, the article here talks about seven interesting budding medicinal advancements. The one out of these seven I find the most intriguing however is the robotic surgeon. With an entity capable of performing surgery, human error could possibly be taken out of the question with risky surgeries. The artificial womb could be introduced to the odd woman unable to have children due to her body being unable to support another life. Heck, they've even invented an ultrasound that works on your phone!
In fact, we now know enough about the terrible disease known as cancer to classify it as uncurable.

(A short article on the current treatment of cancer
"Coming out of a century that declared war on the disease, a century that felt the only reasonable response to a tumor was to annihilate it, this may be hard to imagine. But turning cancer into a controllable condition is not so different from treating high blood pressure or diabetes. "I don't think curing cancer is the goal," says Ellen Stovall, executive director of the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship. Instead, she says, "it should be helping people live as long and as well as they can."

No, we probably won't cure all forms of cancer in the 21st century. But we may very well learn to live with them.").

So in short form, with each passing day our technological advancements are providing us with more and more information about humanity's greatest problems and how to solve them.

I think that technology is making the world a better place. Despite the misuse of some of it, technology has helped extend the human lifespan, made death less painful, prevented death, enhanced life in some ways, and even given others' an alternative to living without an extremity. Technology also provided the room you're sitting in with a light source. :)