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Topic:
“As Charles F. Kettering said, “The price of progress is trouble.””
Method: Present your perspective on an issue.


[tab]Society is a living entity that interacts with its environment like any organism. Evolution ensures that species have to adapt to the ever changing environment. Variation comes with specialization and this always leads to more complexity. Therefore, like any object that is highly complex and specialized; there will be corresponding idiosyncratic issues. However, without complexity an organism’s evolution can only go so far and for a society that could lead to stagnation. A society comes together to resolve the new set of issues that comes with an advancement. This promotes further development of improvements; thus allowing progress as a whole and revealing a new set of issues to tackle.

[tab]The living and breathing organism that is society changes according to the needs of the individuals participating in it. Humans and all organisms evolve to meet the new needs of the environment. This environment is inclusive of the physical ecosystem and the interactions within it. Since the majority of the interactions are with the latter; the process becomes a positive feedback mechanism. This process will enforce all individuals participating in it to evolve or the individual will be forced to participate in the sidelines. This can be readily seen with the development of computers that led to the conception of the Internet. This created two forms of individuals; the ones who had a handle on the new advances and the ones who did not.

[tab]The variation of society is closely tied to the animalistic needs of it. Once the individual’s basic needs, nutrition and shelter, are compromised; the individual will choose to adhere to the new changes in order to ensure its welfare. This is also forces the individual to be accepting of all the associated problems that might come with the new adaptation. The computer was developed to facilitate mathematical computations. The acceptance of this new invention brought about a multitude of societal problems and will be the cause of many more to come in the future. When the computer started being used as a tactical weapon, other countries had no choice but to embrace it and use it as well. This included the need for computer developers, which led to the need of a higher standard in education for generations to come so they know how to handle the new advances.

[tab]The new advances in society are accumulated and passed on to the following generation; allowing them to handle the current situation accordingly. These advances are conceived to solve current problems in the life of the individual and if the solution is beneficial, it will be dissipated amongst all members of the species. If this did not occur, not only will there be no more advances; but there will be repetition of livelihoods among generations. This also incubates a society incapable of change and individual thought. When an organism is inflexible it is the most vulnerable to suffer at the hands of a single major environmental change.

[tab]An organism accepts change in order to benefit its livelihood, the issues associated with this change further stimulates the organism to adapt. The next generations will be aware of the improvements and benefit from them without having to endure plight of the previously rudimentary lifestyle. They in turn will tackle the current issues thus ensuring that the next generation will not have to face the same concerns. When the computer was developed there were only a handful of individuals who knew the internal workings of it. As the next generation came into maturity it benefited from the knowledge of concept of computational science and concentrated on improving the technology. This information was disseminated to society as a whole and they came to accept it once the computers became essential part in the interactions of society.

[tab]Progress is embedded in the blueprint of life. Life that is inflexible to the changes provided by its environment has very little chance to survive and reproduce. It is those organisms that are able to change and pass along the new information that ensure the survival of the species. Progress can be seen as a stimulant rather than an obstruction to society. The new generations will always have very difficult problems to confront, but it will not have to go back and reassess the problems that generations prior have already tackled and solved efficiently. This positive feedback of developments and its new problems ensures that society progresses at a steady pace and that it does not become repetitive.