Flavie TS3, The Idea of progress

I am going to talk about the notion of progress, I've chosen different documents to illustrate it.

→ For example, we have studied an picure about progress scientific. On picture, we can see four men on a conveyor belts, and a man who is short and weak. The man is rejected in a giant claws, only because he's different.

• Only people diffrent are concerned by progress, also it's real because today many people different are rejected of society. I think we can talk about dehumanization, because we are all different, but scientist development is to create clones.
So, on the one hand technical progress is positive, but on the other hand it's negative beacause persons are rejected.
• The cartoonist's message is that scientists will be likely o create the perfect man or woman.

 

 → We have studied another document about progress scientific. The title of text is « Science babies ». Scientists try to eliminate abnormalities to fabricate 'twins'. I think scientists don't know limits of progress, and isn't natural if we can have a perfect baby. I suppose this situation represents human stupidity because we wouldn't have our own personality, we are more like robots machines.

•This document illustrate also progress because there is an innovation scientific. But there are limits in progress, for me isn't a good idea to create the same babies.

 

→ I have chosen another document, it's an article from an Internet newspaper, written in 2010. This article talk about designer babies (test tube babies). We can see 2 scientists who look like each other, the baby in the test tube looks like them too. So they're trying to create a perfect baby,but it'sz ironic beacause they are using themselves as a model. This article represents progress scientific because they aim is to create a perfect baby, and it's possible ! But I think it's a good idea because they are not perfect, and they'll create the same babies. This is the same problem than in text " Science babies ".

→ To conclure, I think progress is a good new to save people's lives, to improve living conditions, to create new technologies... But there are limits, and scientists don't realize ever where are the real problems.