Have u ever wonder what you can do if you can read minds? Not sure? Well then think about the movie “What women wants”, where Mel Gibson uses his mind reading ability to work his way up in his work and also to the women he likes. Interesting stuff here you can do, right? However, this is just a small part of the possible usage of mind reading in a non-harmful manner. In fact, there are some who felt that what Mel Gibson’s character did was rather unethical. If we were to implement this mind reading technology to the society, we must first understand the possibility of any abuse in the technology, and whether we have any ways to minimize the abuse.
Firstly, the most common type of abuse will be the use of the technology for personal gain. This will be unfair to people who do not have the use of the technology. In this case, if the technology were to be implemented to individual use, there will be a need for new definition to the ways of life. For example, criteria for promotion will be re-written such that it is fair for everyone. Also, the implementation of the technology for individual use must be strictly control with proper terms of conditions and legistrations. If not, there should not be any distribution of the technology to prevent abuse of the technology.
Next, the technology may be use by an organization that has no proper control on the extent the technology usage. For instance, an organization may use the technology to steal passwords, codes or personal information and use it to access your bank accounts, your secured files or even to threaten you. Therefore, strict controls must be carried out on any organization with the technology. This may mean the involvement of government, police or even independent watchdog to keep the situation in check and observed that there is no unethical abuse.
In conclusion, extensive rules must be set-up on the technology usage. In fact, government, magistrate and scientists must come up with a set of regulation on the use of the technology. Also the technology must be “well control”, meaning no circulation of the technology without any authorization. Just like what you had heard in the movie “Spiderman”, ‘With great power, comes great responsibility’; we must be prepare to minimize any unethical abuse if we were to implement the technology to the society.
2 comments:
Nice introduction with good attention grabber. The essay is well organised with an introduction and supported ideas are included. Good use of linking words too!
Like what mingyao said,you started off well. I like your introduction. But there are still quite a number of grammatical mistakes:
eg.we must be prepare to minimize any unethical abuse if we were to implement the technology to the society.
'prepared' should be the correct word form to use.
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