Science is a threat to humanity. Do you agree?

In the 21st century, we have a technologically advanced modern society, with dazzling new gadgets and apps from various companies, packed to the brims with various nifty functions that appeal to each and everyone of us like sweet tantalizing ripe fruits on the trees. But, are the trees an innocent apple tree or the proverbial Tree of the knowledge of good and evil in Garden of Eden? In this age, the amount of electronic products might threaten the very idea of being human. We now have bionic body parts, bionic blood, and matrix like programmes that might allow downloads of skills and robots that do things faster and more efficient than us. With such inventions, how do we continue defining what is human and what is technology?

The inventions of bionic body parts bode well for those that are disabled as such inventions embody a hope for them to be whole and well again. With bionic arms, the handless can grasp and hold. With bionic legs, the legless can walk, run and jump. Meet Rex, a bionic human with functional heart, lungs and eyes. Through him, scientists have proven it is possible to reproduce two-thirds of human parts through bionics. When used this way, such bionics might seem innocent and even beneficial, but with a closer look, one can find flaws and problems in this. There has been issues of bionics performing so well, they out-perform human body parts. That, of course, is a given, as bionic body parts aren’t bound within the limits that bind human body parts. That is a good thing, but, there are concerns of people purposefully amputating their fully functional body parts to receive these super limbs to be better than the average man, just because they can afford it. This is of course a serious moral and social issue as it would be just wrong for a person to trade in his human limbs for a better set of bionic limbs like they are spare doll parts, worthless and unimportant. And this might also lead to social problems as only the rich would be able to