“A Measure of Restraint” is an engaging essay written by Chet Raymo. In it he weaves several events from history, current events and personal experience into a cautionary work about the dangers of science. In the last sentence of the last paragraph, he emphatically states his position: “The unexamined quest for knowledge is hemmed with peril.” At first I disagreed with this because I thought although the quest for knowledge may have risks at first it is almost necessary in the long run. Without all the advancement in technology we wouldn't be where we are right now. However recently I have felt that I may be wrong.
In the movie WALL-E, we see the effects of the progression of science. Fat people. Although this may be funny at first, it is far from that. People in the movie have lost all social abilities as they are living in their own world: a portable chair with a T.V. The movie asserts that although living in space is amazing it has corrupted people's lives into a machine. With technology people live in a very lazy way because it is easy. Food has to be made into liquid for crying out loud!!
I realize that this movie maybe a stretch my point but I see the beginnings of this. For example, I Phones. They do everything for you and people may not realize it but it is making us lazy as well. We want everything to be simple because we don't want to put the extra effort in!
Do you want to see people looking like this in a 100 years??
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