technology helping us become better human beings or not?

technology helping
us become better human beings or not?
    I for one agree with the Dalai Lama and Francis Fukuyama and believe that technology is helping us become better human beings, especially when it comes to genetics. Stem cell research, gene selection, getting rid of terminal diseases, cloning and food supply all benefit from technology. The Dalai Lama says that “scientists are even experimenting to develop farm products, such as tomatoes, injected with genes from different species of spiders (Lama77)”. Creating new breeds of plants and cloning seeds can help fix the starvation problem and give foods longer shelf lives. Technology has also allowed humans to do things such as clone. There are two types of cloning, therapeutic and reproductive. “Within therapeutic cloning, there is the use of cloning technology for the reproduction of cells and the potential creation of semi- sentient beings purely for the purpose of harvesting body parts for transplantation. Reproductive cloning is basically the creation of an identical copy (Lama79)”. This allows humans to have spare body parts. This could benefit soldiers the most. Human beings as a species have figured out ways to get things done through evolution. “Human nature is merely the species-typical human characteristics and behavior that emerged about 100,000 years ago, during what evolutionary biologists call the “era of evolutionary adaption”- when the precursors of modern humans were living and breeding on the African savanna (Fukuyama144)”. As the environment changes so do humans. It is all part of natural order which can be considered as a cycle. Things have to happen in order for other things to take place. For instance, “if the asteroid that hit our planet 60 million years ago had flown past instead, there would never have been any human beings at all (Fukuyama 145)”. This relates to illnesses as well, “the smallpox virus was part of the natural order until it was forced into extinction by human...