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

Technology is more of a boon. First of all i would like to say that because of Technology we are able to communicate properly, in decade we didn't have this kind of technology through which we can communicate from one country to another country and with the help of Technology so many problems are solving. And one live example we are able to put our views through this website it is also because of Technology. Technology is a new era which going to be never ending.
Debate: Technology is more of a boon than a bane to society. Do you agree?
Side: No

No, I do not agree. I feel that technology is actually more of a bane than boon to society. Technology refers to the study and knowledge of the practical, especially industrial, use of scientific discoveries. While many people do not believe so, technology actually has negative impacts to that affect society, in which one of them is nuclear technology. The use of nuclear technology can lead to social unrest. Nuclear technology is technology that involves the reactions of atomic nuclei. Nuclear weapons can destroy a city in mere seconds with just a blast, fire or radiation, making it a very powerful military weapon. However, the storage of nuclear waste is the negative bit. Even after nuclear waste is treated, it is still highly radioactive. It needs to be stored somehwere, preferably deeply underground. Still, it remains highly dangerous as the radioactive material can cause many health and evironmental risks. Since governments have to find a way to store the waste, they reward authorities or organisations that help store the radioactive nuclear waste, without the knowledge of the citizens. Citizens living near the radioactive waste then suffer from burns, cancers or even death after being regularly exposed the radio active material. An example would be Dounreay nuclear power station in Scotland. The government says the plans for nuclear burial sites amount to offering "bribes" to communities. This resulted in many unhappy citizens, feeling that they were being treated unfairly due to the exposure to radioactive materia. This resulted in protests, demonstrations and even riots. To this day, the use of nuclear technology is still not supported by many people. Technology may have many positive impacts on society, but without a doubt, we have to agree that it has its negative impacts too. I would like to put foward my point once again, emphasising that I disagree that technology is more of a boon than a bane to society.
Debate: Technology is more of a boon than a bane to society. Do you agree?
Side: Yes

From a positive aspect, utilizing nuclear energy is clean without emission of harmful gases. Therefore, energy obtained from nuclear reactions is much more superior to fossil fuels that have been dominated in the world. Furthermore, another remarked advantage of nuclear energy is its capacity of creating a massive amount of energy from only a very little bit of chemical substances. This feature becomes valuable when natural resources is getting exhausted. This nuclear technology can be served as a defensive weapon in times of war as the nuclear weapons are weapons of destruction. Mankind accidents can be prevented. Leaks from nuclear plants that will bring harm to the residents living near are all Man's fault. All this can be prevented from happening if we humans take preventive measures to stop this from happening. Measures like forbidding residents from living near the nuclear plant area can also be taken. These will prevent harm to the people if they are not allowed to live near there. With regards to the incident in Scotland, if those unhappy citizens feel that they are being treated unfairly due to the exposure to radioactive material, they should have brought it up peacefully and maybe the government would have implemented a policy or plan to have those residents living near to move to another place using some monetary compensation. All over the world, nuclear technology is being used by number of countries. Nuclear technology have alot of advantages such as little amount of carbon emissions and thus contribution to global warming is reduced. This benefit also allow humans to be able to generate a high amount of electrical energy from a single plant. Hence, I would like to rebut against that nuclear technology have advantages that overpower the disadvantages like damages to environmental and human health as they can be prevented by measures taken by humans. Thus, i disagree that technology is more of a bane than a boon to society.
Debate: Technology is more of a boon than a bane to society. Do you agree?
Side: No

I do not agree with 'Technology being more of a boon than a bane'. Once, a Christian writer named Chad Estham had said "Don't text my heart'. This phrase simply meant to say that the keypads and keyboards are becoming the keys to our heart as more relationships are only being built online or through the use of mobile phones. True, technology provides a way of communication and enables us to update ourselves on what us going on in the world, but there are also many disadvantages of technology. It makes today's youths' real life interactions lesser and have a negative effect on the social abilities of them. Technology enables us to stay entertained like using Facebook, watch tv shows and clips on Youtube or playing games. However, the relationships are only created online and we have lesser in person frienships in real life. According to recent research, non-internet users spend 12.6 more minutes on average to do social activities like going out with friends or attending social events. However, internet users spend 34.3 minutes less than non-internet users with families and friends. I believe that relationships can be built online, but what about in real life? Do one only maintain their relationships online but neglect their real life relationships? Online relationships are also very dangerous as you might never know the person on the other side of the chat. Thus, I think that technology is more of a bane than a boon. This motion should not stand!
Debate: Technology is more of a boon than a bane to society. Do you agree?
Side: Yes

You only mentioned about online technology. How about washing machines, mobile phones, fans, etc? Washing machines allow less rivers to be polluted as people would not need to share water which might be used millions of times for washing. There are many different aspect for it, thus you cannot judge something with just one point of view. One have to look at it from many different views in order to achieve a less bias result. Therefore, this reason might be correct, but there are more which can rebut over it.
Debate: Technology is more of a boon than a bane to society. Do you agree?
Side: Yes

Agreed . Technology does not mean it refers to ONLY online technology. What has been stated from Thengs is totally true. These technology has helped us in a lot of ways.
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, you state that the development of technology in providing us a facility of communication only makes youths nowadays interact with each other lesser, affecting their social abilities negatively. I do not agree with your point of view. Are you implementing that by using social networking sites like Facebook, more often, it would affect one's social abilities negatively? It is not true. One can still be socially outward in real life despite being on the Internet for a long period of time, vice versa. In simpler terms, the affect that technology brings to the society as a facility of communication is dependent on the users themselves and cannot be pushed the blame of people not being sociable in reality.Moving on, after stating about how technology as a facility of communication affects one's sociability, you mentioned about the benefits technology brings as an entertainment source for us. Then, you moved on to online relationship. There is absolutely no link between technology being an entertainment source and it causing online relationships. Therefore, I can conclude that there is a lack of clarity in explanation and some contradictions while explaining. In regards to that, to add on, you stated that by having online relationships, we would have lesser reality relationships. It is not true. Are you trying to say that if you have an online relationship, you would have lesser friends in reality? The explanation is biased and cannot be used to elaborate your main point on online relationships.Indeed, I agree that online relationships can be dangerous because of not knowing who is actually on the other side of the chat, but all these are preventable. When received friend requests, it is our duty to ensure that these are the actual person according to their profiles, sending us the request and not somebody else. Our caution could be beneficial to our safety in the future as prevention is the best cure.To sum up, I feel that your point of view on the debate topic should not stand as my stand is stronger than yours.
Debate: Technology is more of a boon than a bane to society. Do you agree?
Side: No

I disagree with 'Technology is more of a boon than a bane to society'. I feel that technology makes life more complex. The increase in transportation technology has brought stressful traffic congestion in some areas. New forms of danger existing as a consequence of innovative forms of technology, new types of nuclear reactors, unforeseen genetic mutations as the result of genetic engineering, or perhaps something more subtle which can destroy the ozone or warm the planet. New forms of entertainment, such as video games and internet access could have possible social effects on areas such as academic performance. Creates new diseases and disorders such as obesity, laziness and a loss of personality. People can easily invade privacy and infringe copy rights. It makes part of people over concentrate on computering, then lost of friendly and face to face communication chance. Bad for eye watching if over look for long time. People will also lose their jobs to machines that will do the work for them.
Debate: Technology is more of a boon than a bane to society. Do you agree?
Side: Yes

if you say that, then if are you using the computer to debate since you said it is a bane?
Debate: Technology is more of a boon than a bane to society. Do you agree?
Side: No

It will be both.most things in life are not all good or all bad. Like most other things, technology in the future will be both, depending on application, person suing/programming, benefits, etc.consider atomic power, for instance.as nuclear power for electricity, it is definitely good. as an atomic weapon, it can be used to cause terrible destruction.For every weapon of death and destruction we've invented, we've come up with a thousand ways to boost food production, increase access to personal fulfillment, save lives, and simply to amuse ourselves. On the whole, technology has been a boon for almost as long as we've existed.Let me ask you this: can you imagine going back to a mode of existance before technology? Before we even had clothes, or spears? Before fire and language? All of these things were inventions, and if you can't imagine even living without what we have now (much less comfortably), then you'll have to agree that technology is too valuable to ever give up.That said, it has it's downsides. Recently, technological progress has led to a deterioration of our resources. The ability of technology to adapt to hostile conditions is being strained in the face of the effect we're having on the environment. It's entirely possible that some technological breakthrough will allow us to survive without relying on our earth exclusively, but it's a race of the boon vs. the bane, and the finish line is getting awfully close.
Debate: Technology is more of a boon than a bane to society. Do you agree?
Side: No

Technology is more of a bane. Nowadays kids and go on the computer all day. People tend to forget how to do things for themselves, even using a calculator just to do simple math that you could easily write down and figure out. Instead of doing it ourselves and excising our mind, we will juz use a calculator. While technology is great and helpful and a HUGE part of modern society if one day it failed, we'd go into chaos. No bank, no super information highway, no radio, no computer, no telephone, our missiles and dangerous things like that would be compromised. If you haven't, watch the movie Wall-E. In there you will see how they portray how the future of people might behave if we all had such sophisticated technology we'd grow fat and ride around in chairs. :D
Debate: Technology is more of a boon than a bane to society. Do you agree?
Side: Yes

I feel that what you are saying is only half correct. You are now already mentioning all the different kinds of technology around us, and how it helps us. I feel that the world will not go into chaos if technology fails us. For example, during the 1960s banks hand-wrote the money that they kept in locked up using old-fashioned key locks. They did not have ATMs during that time, nor did they have credit cards or cash cards. However, they were able to cope. This shows that things will work slower than usual and people would be fustrated as we are used to speed and convenience. If there were no highway, again, things would work slower and people would be fustrated. The same goes for the telephone. We would just have to find a different and presumably slower way to communicate. This just shows how much we depend on technology and we live fast-paced lives because of it. As for kids using the computer, it is all about responsibility and how we manage our time.
Debate: Technology is more of a boon than a bane to society. Do you agree?
Side: Yes

Technology is not all that bad. In Wall-E, you see robots portrayed as helpers who clean up our planet. Do you realize that without technology, robots would not exist? It is with the advancement and progression of technology that has produced these end-products or what we call high tech gadgets. With all these high tech gadgets, life becomes easier and people have more time for things like family bonding. Like this, ties between people improve. Hence, I have reason to believe the technology is an advantage to society rather than a disadvantage.
Debate: Technology is more of a boon than a bane to society. Do you agree?
Side: No

I feel that technology is more of a bane than a boon to society. Technology has been an essential need in our modern life. Technology has been used in many different ways, for example organising management and even education. Technology has indeed made our life easier. However, people have been extremely dependent on technology that has caused laziness in humans. Humans just want to get their jobs done fast so that they have more time for rest. In the olden days, when people were bored, they would go outdoors to spend their leisure time. However in this generation, when we tend to spend our leisure time listening to music, chat with friends on the mobile phone and even gaming with video consoles. This would affect their daily lifestyles and characteristics.
Debate: Technology is more of a boon than a bane to society. Do you agree?
Side: Yes

Since you said that it is a essential need in our modern life why is it more of a bane? Listening to music, chat with friends on the mobile phone and gaming with video consoles are forms of relaxation which allows one to rest from all the busy schedules in life. People get to communicate with one another more easily and there is more entertainment in life. Going outdoors to spend their leisure time, but Singapore is so small, one would not want to kept going out to the same place over and over again, as time passes by they would get bored of the place they are going. So how is this better when there are much more entertainment? Moreover, there are many more technology not only entertainment side. Thus, I disagree as it did not cover everything regarding technology.
Debate: Technology is more of a boon than a bane to society. Do you agree?
Side: No

It is an essential need in our modern life, but people are getting overly dependent on them that results to the laziness and 'want to get things done fast' attitude. Also, too much of gaming will lead to some serious and unhealthy situation for example addiction. Not only gaming, television also causes unhealthy situations. A recent news stated that a child psychiatrist had many cases of children who suffer from panic attacks and invariably all of them are hooked to a late-night thriller serial and go to their parents complaining of their fear to go to the bathroom alone at night. Therefore i disagree to your statement and strongly think that technology is a bane to the society.
Debate: Technology is more of a boon than a bane to society. Do you agree?
Side: Yes

You did not state your evidence. It may be that only a small percentage of the society does this. Technology helps us do things faster but it does not make us lazier. It just makes our lives simpler. Technology helps us do things faster but it does not cause laziness. It is our choice whether to be lazy or not. Like you said, it is during our leisure time, it doesn't affect us negatively as we are doing it in our leisure time. If we only do this when we are in our leisure time, it doesn't affect our work or our studies at all. In the older times, they lived close to each other and is allowed to go out and play all the time. Now, we are living further away from each other and we have difficulty meeting and finding a time where both parties are free and their parents might not necessary allow them to go out all the time. So meeting online and playing games together or chatting on the phone is how they stay connected each other when they are far apart or do not see each other. So i think that it is more of a boon than a bane.
Debate: Technology is more of a boon than a bane to society. Do you agree?
Side: No

I agree that even though the invention of technology is of great use to mankind, there are indeed many cons to this too. I feel that technology is more of a bane to the society. Eversince the creation of technology, in this case, the social media and internet, many people have been facing all sorts of different problems. I will be talking more about the different negative impacts of social networking sites. A social networking site can be defined as an online platform or site, that focuses on building or reflecting of social relations among people. It is also the use of websites or other online technologies to communicate with people and share information and resources with the use of online profiling. Social networking sites such as Facebook and twitter vary slightly, however, one common feature is that these social networking sites have a platform where they allow users to create online profiles. This feature allows people to create an online profile to represent themselves in that particular social platform. By creating this profile, users will be able to communicate with another user through direct messages, commenting, posting a status or emailing. The creation of a social networking site can bring together many users as they join this platform varied reasons. Today, there are more than 500 million active users on Facebook and users spend over 700 billion minutes per month on this social networking site (Facebook, 2011 statistics).I will be arguing that social networking site will have a larger negative influence on users, with the increased ease of identity theft and also the drecease in workplace productivity. Identity theft pose as a huge problem in today's society and comes about after the creation of the very modern, social media. The availability of internet technology then comes about. In fact, "A total of 806,000 Australians aged 15 years and over were victims of at least on incident of personal fraud in identity theft in 2008" (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2008). Sites such as Facebook and Myspace, they encourage users to "edit your profile" which includes: personal details like phone number, address, relationship status and even our own personal interest. The availability of this information to the public will then ease the identity theft.
Debate: Technology is more of a boon than a bane to society. Do you agree?
Side: Yes

I disagree. For one thing, social media is actually a boon to society. For instance, LinkedIn is a website that, similar to Facebook, not only helps people make connections but also provides opportunities or even new jobs. No doubt that posting personal information (resume/Curriculum Vitae) is a prerequisite when joining such social media networks. However, it depends on the level of confidentiality preferred by the user.  Also, there are many ways to prevent identity theft such as adjusting privacy settings, using strong passwords and changing them regularly. There are even identity fraud protection products that can be purchased according to CPP Group Plc (a British-based life assistance company). That is why some sites, like Facebook, have age requirements to discourage minors from joining as they have a lower level of maturity and are therefore unaware of the consequences. As users have control over what they reveal in cyberspace, it is therefore their responsibility to protect their own privacy. Hence, such problems that you say are caused by social media can actually be resolved and therefore does not reinforce your stand that technology is a bane to society.
Debate: Technology is more of a boon than a bane to society. Do you agree?
Side: No

I have to disagree to your above argument. No doubt that the level of confidentiality is set by the user, however, most of the times, people do not know that the default settings of most social networking site is on "available to the public" which means, that even people we do not know, can see the personal information we wrote. Being that unaware of the default settings, creators of the profile will not bother to change the settings. Identity fraud in this case, is whereby people with awful motives, stalk a particular person on the site and records down all the information stated. The person will then be able to create new profile with all the personal information such as the name, address, workplace, relationship status and birthday. With all the information, it will ease identity fraud when a person attempts to claim as the real owner of the identity. With a profile of another person, "fake" owners will be able to sabotage the real owner of the profile. Whether it is through cyber bullying or even a minor thing like commenting on a photo. Although sites like Facebook do have age requirements (In which in this case is the age of 13), minors tend to fake an age just to be able to sign up into the social networking site. Facebook, have games that children love: Pet Society, Restaurant City. Once they find out from their older sibling or an adult that there is such a website that have such games, most of the time they will want to create their own profile and start playing the games. Meanwhile, being unaware of the dangers and consequences of not being mature enough to handle their own online profile. This hence does not discourage children to join the social platform. In conclusion, your rebuttal is not strongly reinforced and I still stand with technology is a bane to the society.