Debate: Technology is more of a boon than a bane to society. Do you agree?
Side: Yes

Upon reading your explanations on your point of view about the debate topic, I would like to offer my rebuttals against it. Firstly, your definition of the term 'technology' is unreliable and thus cannot be used to explicitly define this commonly used term to the general public. According to www.dictionary.com, technology refers to the study and use of applied science. Whereas, your definition on the term 'technology' indicates the application of knowledge especially to industrial; which is not true as technology is a broad, general application of knowledge to many different areas of society and not just to the industry sector.Moving on, you stated that the use of nuclear technology lead to social unrest. It is not true. You have only look at the disadvantages nuclear technology brings and not look at nuclear technology as a whole.Indeed, it is true that nuclear technology is dangerous as they can result to the making of powerful military weapons that cannot be treated as toys and if landed on the wrong hands, would lead to severe consequences that might be too late to regret. Or the fact that the storage of nuclear waste can cause many health and environmental risks due to the high amount of radiation it contains. I agree to your implication on the degree of seriousness the consequences in taking such a risk like allowing nuclear technology to the society might result to.Then, you might ask why bother taking such a risk when we are living in a developed era with other alternatives for nuclear energy? Well, my explanation to you is the advantages that nuclear technology brings.The utilization of nuclear energy is clean without emission of harmful gases. Therefore, energy obtained from nuclear reactions is far from superior to fossil fuels that have been dominating in the world. At this point of time, with ozone depletion and global warming, along with another environmental problems we are facing, at stake, it is essential to replace fossil fuels with nuclear energy so as to slow or prevent the consequences of undesirable situations from happening. Furthermore, another remarked advantages of nuclear energy is its capacity of creating a massive amount of energy from only a very little bit of chemical substance. This feature becomes valuable when natural resources is getting exhausted. All in all, nuclear technology is energy efficient and is currently the best energy resource we should look to.I would like to rebut against your use on how the storage of nuclear waste is one of the negative impacts nuclear technology brings to society. Although it is highly radioactive and can cause many environmental and health risks, such as burns, cancers or even death to citizens living near these radioactive wastes;first and foremost, all these can be prevented through the example of US's method of disposing them.The US government 's solution to disposing nuclear waste safely is to store them in a rural, outcast place away from the human population so that the environment won't be contaminated. Although it does not stop the problem completely, it reduces it to the minimum and is currently the best available method. However, this method cannot be used in countries which suffers from land scarcity, like Singapore, therefore these countries shouldn't use nuclear energy to prevent people from suffering from radiation exposure.To conclude, I feel that technology benefits the society in various ways but it only becomes a harm to society when misused by users. Thus, dependent on its users, technology can be either a bane or a boon to the society. With all these explanations and evidences, I do not agree to your point of view on the debate topic as the benefits outweighed the disadvantages.