Does technology make our lives better.

"this argument is too narrow to be significant," A weather satellite is a type of satellite that is primarily used to monitor the weather and climate of the Earth. Satellites can be either polar orbiting, seeing the same swath of the Earth every 12 hours, or geostationary, hovering over the same spot on Earth by orbiting over the equator while moving at the speed of the Earth's rotation.[1] These meteorological satellites, however, see more than clouds and cloud systems. City lights, fires, effects of pollution, auroras, sand and dust storms, snow cover, ice mapping, boundaries of ocean currents, energy flows, etc., are other types of environmental information collected using weather satellites. Weather satellite images helped in monitoring the volcanic ash cloud from Mount St. Helens and activity from other volcanoes such as Mount Etna.[2] Smoke from fires in the western United States such as Colorado and Utah have also been monitored. Other environmental satellites can detect changes in the Earth's vegetation, sea state, ocean color, and ice fields. For example, the 2002 oil spill off the northwest coast of Spain was watched carefully by the European ENVISAT, which, though not a weather satellite, flies an instrument (ASAR) which can see changes in the sea surface. El Niï¿½o and its effects on weather are monitored daily from satellite images. The Antarctic ozone hole is mapped from weather satellite data. Collectively, weather satellites flown by the U.S., Europe, India, China, Russia, and Japan provide nearly continuous observations for a global weather watch. -http://en.wikipedia.org... The field of meteorology entered the space age on April 1, 1960 with the launch of TIROS 1 (TIROS stands for Television and Infra-Red Observation Satellite). Since that time, numerous satellites with ever increasing capablities and sophistication have been deployed. Weather satellites provide valuable real-time cloud photographs. Most importantly, coverage includes the 70 percent of the earth's surface covered by water where few surface observations can be made. Before the deployment of weather satellites, many areas had no advance warning of impending severe storms. Today satellites can spot and accurately track hurricanes and typhoons while they are still far out in the ocean. Modern satellites also carry many instruments used to measure various environmental variables, providing vital information to not only meteorologists, but farmers, geologists, fishermen, foresters and others. These measuring capabilites will be discussed in the next section -http://physics.uwstout.edu... The following list details many of the uses of weather satellites. Radiation measurements from the earth's surface and atmosphere give information on the earth-atmosphere energy budget. Measurements from the ocean surface are translated into sea-surface temperatures - information valuable to the fishing industry as well as meteorologists. Satellites can monitor snow cover in winter, ice fields in the Arctic and Antarctic, and the height of the ocean's surface. Infrared sensors on satellites can assess conditions of crops, areas of deforestation and regions of drought. Some satellites are equipped with a water vapor sensor that can profile the distribution of water vapor in the atmosphere. Volcanic eruptions and the motion of ash clouds can be detected. During the winter, satellites monitor the southward progress of freezing air in Florida and Texas, allowing forecasters to warn growers of impending low temperatures. Satellites can receive environmental information from remote data collection platforms on the surface. These include instrumented buoys, river gauges, automatic weather stations, siesmic and tsunami stations, and ships. This information is then relayed to a central receiving station at Wallop's Island, Virginia. -http://physics.uwstout.edu... After reading thses, how could you say that this topic is "too narrow to be significant"? Satellites greatly add to our knowledge of weather patterns and other environmental factors that affect us all. Your points regarding to my topic of medical treatments, are not true all the time. You said, "With the creation of life saving medicine comes the ability to abuse medicine and become addicted to it. For example, Anti-biodics can save someone's life but the more anti-biodics you take the less anti-bodies your body produces because it adapts to the anti-biodics your body is taking in. Then due to your lack of anti-bodies, you are more capable of becoming ill and needing more anti-biodics and the death spiral continues until you completely rely on the drugs to keep you alive." Technology is like a pencil. The pencil is there for you, but it is you that have to take it, and it is also you that have to decide what to do with it. You could just throw it away, or use it properly. Like this, technology can not be held responsible for the overuse of anti-biodics, since the amount of the anti-biodics taken depends on the user, and the user is obviously responsible for the action taken. "My opponent stresses cancer for some reason but the fact is that technology can only save 9 out of 10 of these victims." You should rewrite this sentence. It has go like this, "My opponent stresses cancer for some reason but the fact is that technology COULD only save 9 out of 10 of these victims." If you check again, when I said,"nine times out of ten, died when cancer got in their way", I was talking about the past, not the present. Thus, I WAS NOT saying that technology CAN only save 9 out of 10 of the victims. I'm sure people in the seventies weren't depressed because they couldn't have ipods" When I talked about ipods, I was giving it as a general example, covering all the discomforts came from listening to the old-fashioned radio. I am sure that people did have discomforts and complains about their listening devices. You might say that they could not have complained about such things since they did not even know that such things were going to be invented, but hey, we are complaing about stuff like oil prices when no brilliant solutions are present. "Once again technology is not what makes the quality of our lives better" Quality of life is the degree of well-being felt by an individual or group of people. Unlike standard of living, it is not a tangible concept, and so cannot be measured directly. It consists of two components: physical and psychological. The physical aspect includes such things as health, diet, and protection against pain and disease. -http://en.wikipedia.org... As it says, the physical aspect includes such things as health, diet, and protection against pain and disease. Once again, for the protection against pain and disease, the medical treatments based on modern technology come back into the play. Modern technology is saving our asses from the pains and diseases compared to the times when we did not have technology as developed as it is now. 1.-Pills that are made with modern technology can help us in getting back appetite and having a balanced diet. 2.-surgeries with better devices based on modern technology keeps us healthy. 3.-technology used in security reasons such as door locks and such can save us from both physical and mental pain. Your close friends or realatives might be attacked from invaders and robbers, causing you a mental pain, and your friend a physical/mental pain if we did not have modern technology to keep us safe. 4.-Again, surgeries and pills can cure diseases. *Just because there are diseases that technology can not help to cure, it does not mean that technology has not helped us in enriching our lives. It is becasue our technology is yet to reach its zenith. the last paragraphs depend on what kind of person you are/