INTRODUCTION

Thank God the writer prayed for the will of god bless that have completed
this paper. In this paper there is discussion about the impact of technology "The
advantages and disadvantages". Which describes the advantages and disadvantages of
technology in various fields. The author discusses this problem because people can
not be separated from technology and technology has a lot to change the pattern of
life, thought and other patterns. But the technology also led to deterioration of
moral and human fabric damage is related to technology utilized for the war and
many others. The author also directing this paper as an English language task
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CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

A. Background

Today the technological progress is fast enough compared progress of technology in

previous centuries. When humans using stone and metal objects to perform
activities to use machines and computers to run an operation that systematically
programmed. Technological advances over the centuries is growing, it was the
beginning of the emergence of the industrial revolution, when the engine has
dominated the factory job. This revolution started from the English, then English
has introduced a steam engine fuel coal. Machines are only used in factories in
terms of transportation penetrated. Ships and cars have been equipped steam
engine. Advance of technology is growing, many countries rely country to
technology development. After the English revolution, many of which revolution is
happening among the United States, Russia, France and Italy, so in the new era
arose in each country. Jobs that once were the manpower to do now replaced with a
machine that makes human life. Then tekhnolgi progress temukannya increased with
the new type of engine gasoline. In the 19th century steam engine less in interest
because of its efficiency is still less, after the discovery of oil by drilling
techniques. In create oil-fueled engines, and many diesel power plants built.
Scientists gave birth to the latest innovations driven by presenting the findings.
Include Thomas Edison, Graham Bell and many more creative scientists. Then the
most sophisticated technology ever made man is a computer. This tool has already
has its own programs in such settings as a substitute for the human brain in do
work. many computer manufacturers use machines that can run automatically with the
computer as the brain. Facilitating the supervision of factory employment check.
However, technological advances are universal and not tied to any value that
encourages the colonial to use technology that many textile factories replaced
with weapons factory. World War I and II was raging, technology becomes the
primary means of destruction of human civilization. This technology is used as an
instrument of man depending on who is in control.

B. Problem

Based on the background of the problem formulation as follows:

1. Is technological progress beneficial or detrimental

C. Purpose

This paper aims to:

1. Examine whether technological advances, including beneficial or detrimental.

D. Benefits

This paper is useful as:

1. Learning materials for those who want to learn it.

2. Means to recognize that technological progress beneficial and harmful.

CHAPTER II

LITERATURE REVIEW

Technological advances in the present very different in the past, at present

there is a car that has a speed of mach 2 and in the past there was not that fast
car. According to Iskandar Alisyahbana (1980) Technology has been known to mankind
since millions of years ago because the urge to live a more comfortable, more
prosperous and more prosperous. So since the beginning of the technology actually
existed, although the term "technology not yet used. The term "technology" comes
from "techne" or ways and "logos" or knowledge. So the technology literally means
knowledge of how. Understanding the technology itself thinks is the way to do
something to meet human needs with reasonable assistance and equipment, so as to
extend, enhance or create more powerful members of the body, senses and the human
brain. Meanwhile, according to Jacques Ellul (1967: 1967 xxv) gives the sense of
technology as "the whole rational method has led and efficiency features in every
field of human activity" Understanding technology in general is: a process that
increases the value added. Products used and produced to facilitate and improve
performance. Structure or system in which the process and the product was
developed and used
While the impact of technology shown to benefit and harm. Technological progress
is something we can not avoid in this life, because technological advances will
run in accordance with the progress of science. Each innovation was created to
provide positive benefits for human life. Provides many facilities, as well as a
new way of doing human activities. Particularly in the field of technology many
people already enjoy the benefits brought by the innovations that have been
produced in the last decade. However, although initially created to produce
positive benefits, on the other side also allows used for negative things.

In the past, technology was there but not as good progress in the 19th century.
Technological advances began in the late 18th century and early 19th century, but
the early start of the Industrial Revolution is not clear TS Ashton wrote about
1760-1830. The existence of the industrial revolution has changed the technology,
socioeconomic, and cultural and economic change has occurred is based on a worker
who is dominated by industry and machine production. This revolution began in
England with the introduction of the steam engine (by using coal as fuel) and are
powered by engines (especially in textile production) (www.wikipedia.org.id /
revolusi_industri). The development of metal machine tools, overall the first two
decades of the 19th century, production machinery to manufacture products for use
in other industries. This industrial revolution has changed the joints of the
world economy and changing patterns of human thought and human work easier. With
the steam engine invented by Watt, that coal fuel used at that time to pump water
at a coal mine, but the longer the tool used for the means of production in
textile factories. Then around 1850 II industrial revolution when technological
and economic progress gained momentum with the development of energy-steam ship,
rail, and then at the end of the century in the development of combustion engine
and electric power development (www.wikipedia.org.id / revolusi_industri ).

From the industrial revolution encouraged many scientists to conduct experiments

and produce the latest innovation to create various inventions which have huge
benefits for the world, for example: that the light bulb invented by Thomas Alva
Edison, the telephone by Graham Bell, and many others. In the 19th century, many
power plants built, and technology into the joint transport and deliver cars,
ships and aircraft. Making it easier to move.

Then the 20th century were created that include information technology electronic
technology such as radio, tv, computer. Information Technology is a technology
used to process the data to produce information (www.wikipedia.org.id /
tekhnologi_informasi). The existence of the information technology people in
facilitating easier, so the added information broadens the thinking. Then,
according to Tony Bates (1995) states that technology can improve the quality and
coverage when used wisely for the education and training, and has very important
meaning for economic prosperity. But technology can also be harmful, because the
technology-capable devastating aspects of human life and human beings can be
fatal, for example due to technological advances in communications and the
information that can provide information to the public in the form of electronic
media such as TV, radio and computer and media Printed like a newspaper. Small
example of the use of computers as tools that can destroy human morals when making
a site that makes the content much less restricted in use to steal the computer
with security breaking the bank so that they can rob banks via the Internet. Then
another example is the construction of a nuclear power plant causes major threat
to human life if the plant was destroyed in the reactor so that the radiation leak
that could create new kinds of diseases and destructive nature.
(www.wikipedia.org.id / kerugian_tekhnologi.)

CHAPTER III
DISCUSSION

A. Understanding technology

The term "technology" comes from "techne" or ways and "logos" or knowledge.
So the technology literally means knowledge of how. Understanding the technology
itself thinks is the way to do something to meet human needs with reasonable
assistance and equipment, so as to extend, enhance or create more powerful members
of the body, senses and the human brain.

B. Top Technology Encouragement Nature

Technology comes from nature because all the concepts that created
inspiration from nature. Humans learn to create technology for natural impulse,
both came from the natural goodness and evil come from nature. Human nature to
accept the good example of the fertile land, rich soil of this man worked for the
cultivate. However, humans know without the planting of agricultural tools will
not work, once people use cow plow tractors are now used to cultivate the land.
Then the bad example of the natural form of flood, people kept on pushing to
create the technology by forming dams that keep the volume of water to remain
stable. Review the Dutch state, which has a landscape that is lower than sea level
that encourages Dutch scientists to create the most advanced of the dam, which
resulted in the Holland still survived until now. Many more good and evil nature
that encourages people to continue thinking of creating a good technology and
advanced simple.

C. Positive and Negative Impacts of the caused Technology

Technology is an instrument that is free of value to humans. Human

bertekhnologi given because the human capacity of understanding.

Then the advantages and disadvantages of the technology caused:

1. Field of information and communication

In the field of information and communication has been very rapid progress. Of
progress can we feel the positive effects include:.

a. We will more quickly find the information accurate and up to date on any part
of the earth via the Internet.

b. We can communicate with friends, and family far away just by a computer

c. We get bank services very easily. Etc.

Besides the benefits we derive from it the progress of these technological

advances are also used for things that are negative, among others:

a. Utilization of communication services by the terrorist network (Compass)

b. The use of certain information and certain sites on the Internet that there
could be misused certain parties for certain purposes

c. Secrecy increasingly threatened assay Through the Internet we can get

information about psychological tests, and even can get psychological testing
services directly from the Internet.

d. Used to break into the bank's security made certain parties.

2. Economy and Industry

In the economic field of technology has changed rapidly. Of technological advances

we can feel the positive benefits include:

a. Economic growth higher

b. Occurrence of industrialization

c. Productivity increased industry

d. Technological advances will improve the productivity capability of the

industrial world both industrial and technological aspects of the aspects of
production. Investment and reinvestment that took place on a large scale that will
further enhance the productivity of the world economy. In the future, the impact
of technological developments in the industrialized world will be increasingly
important. The signs have shown that the technology will appear that allows
businesses of individual consumers in direct contact with the factory so the
service can be implemented directly and individual tastes can be satisfied, and
more importantly consumers do not have to go to the store.

But as for the losses in the show are:

a. .The existence of capitalism.

b. Widening gap of poverty

c. Competition in the world ofwork requires workers to always increase the skills
and knowledge possessed. Technological inclination and economic development, will
have an impact on employment and labor qualifications required. Labor
qualification and the amount of labor needed to experience rapid change. As a
result, education is the education needed to produce a workforce capable of
transforming the knowledge and skills in accordance with the labor demands of
these changes.

3. In the field of health

Beneficial effects include:

a. Medical increasingly sophisticated with the tools to operate on cancer or the

like.
b. More and more hospitals are built.

c. More and more drugs are new.

d. Many malignant diseases can be cured

Adverse impacts include:

a. Existence of any abuse of power by making malpractice.

b. The existence of the illegal organ trade

c. . Many hospitals selective patients.

4. Social and Cultural Field

a. As a result of technological advances that we can see difference in male and

female personalities. Many experts now argue that the greater portion of women who
hold positions as leaders, both in government and in business. Even changes in
behavior toward the previous behavior is increasingly prominent.Data man's job is
written in the book Megatrend for Women: From Liberation to Leadership, written by
Patricia Aburdene & John Naisbitt (1993) shows that the leadership role of women
in larger and larger. More and more women are entering the political field, as a
member of parliament, senators, governors, ministers, and various other important
positions.

b. Increased confidence in Asian countries gave birth to an interesting

phenomenon. Development and economic progress has increased the confidence and
resilience itself as a nation will become stronger. Western nations can no longer
be harassing Asian nations.

c. Pressure, sharp competition in various aspects of life as a consequence of

globalization, will give birth to generations of disciplined, diligent and
hardworking.

However technological advances will impact negatively on the cultural aspects:

a. Moral decline among community members, especially among teenagers and students.
The progress of economic life that too much emphasis on the effort to fulfill the
wishes of material, has caused some citizens to be "rich in content but poor in
spirit".

b. Delinquency and deviant acts among teenagers increased further weakening the
authority of the traditions in society, such as mutual assistance and mutual aid
have weakened the centripetal forces that play an important role in creating
social unity. As a result of information can be viewed together, delinquency and
deviant acts among teenagers and students has increased in various forms, such as
fights, graffiti, traffic violations to crimes.

c. Pattern of interaction between people who change the computer's presence in

most middle-class households has changed over the family interaction patterns.
Computers are connected to the phone has opened up opportunities for anyone to
connect with the outside world. Internet relay chat program (IRC), Internet, and
e-mail has made people preoccupied with their own lives. In addition the
availability of internet cafes (cafe) has been given an opportunity to many people
who do not have computers and internet channel itself to communicate with others
via the internet. A growing number of people who spend time alone with the
computer. Through the Internet relay chat (IRC), children can chatting with
friends and strangers at any time.

5. Education

Technology has an important role in the education sector include:

a. The emergence of mass media, especially electronic media as a source of

scientific and educational center. The impact of this is the teacher rather than
the only source of knowledge.

b. The emergence of learning methods are new, which allows students and teachers
in the learning process. With technological advances create new methods that make
students able to understand the material abstract, because the material with the
help of technology can be made abstract.

c. Learning systems do not have to go through face-to-muka. with learning process

of technological progress does not have to bring together students with teachers,
but can also use the internet and postal services etc..

One also appeared negative impact in the education process, among others:

a. Secrecy increasingly threatened predictor of intelligence test programs such as

Raven's test, Differential Aptitudes Test can be accessed via compact disk .. The
implications of this problem is, there are psychological tests that will easily
leak, and the development of psychological tests should be racing with the speed
of the leak through the internet.

b. Misuse of knowledge for certain people to do crime. We know that progress in

education agency also scored highly knowledgeable generation but have low morale.
For example with a computer science Cleaner then people will try to break through
banking systems and others.

6. Politics

Beneficial effects include:

a. The emergence of new middle-class technological and economic growth in this

area will encourage the emergence of new middle class. Ability, skills, and their
lifestyle is not much different from the middle class in the country-Western
country. Predictably, this new middle class will be the pioneer to demand
political freedom and freedom of expression is greater.

b. Regeneration process of leadership. Of course this transitional generation of

leadership will affect the style and political substance applied. Breath of
freedom and equality more viscous.

c. In the field of international politics, there is also a tendency to grow

regionalisme development. Advances in communications technology have produced
regionalisme consciousness. Coupled with advances in transportation technology
have led to increasing awareness. Awareness that will manifest in the field of
economic cooperation, which will bear regionalisme new economic power.

Adverse impacts include:

a. More and more corrupt because it will many tricks going through the advance of
technology.

b. The emergence of duping people to legalize all acts detrimental to society.

7. Military Field

Beneficial effects:

a. Creation of a high security so that the community safe.

b. Lack criminalization

c. The more sophisticated the weaponry

Adverse impact

a. A war that resulted in the collapse of thousands of victims

b. Weaponry used as a tool pengancam other countries.

8. Fields of Energy and Natural Resources

• Technology benefits include:

a. Detection of natural wealth, such as oil used as fuel for vehicles and cooking
purposes.

b. Development of advanced power plants that can illuminate every corner of the
area. Since most technology devices that use electricity to operate.

• Loss of technology:

a. Damage to earth's natural because the contents sucked out so that it can
disrupt the balance of the earth in the earth's rotation moves eventually lead to
the rotation.

b. The existence of radiation generated at power plants such as nuclear power

plants so that people will contract the disease due to a new kind of radiation.
Photo of effect radiation from nuclear

CHAPTER IV

CONCLUSIONS and RECOMMENDATIONS

A. Conclusion

That the use of technology from earlier times to the present very important role
in facilitate the activities of humans. However, this technology is free that is
not bound by any value. Anyone can have it if he was able to master the
technology. And technology has changed the lifestyle of the people so that
eventually people will get drunk technology. Too hung life with the technology but
the man himself will eventually affected both advantages and disadvantages.
Advantages and disadvantages have been penetrated in all areas, such as social,
communication and information, and many other fields. Technology has changed
everything, but it all came back from the man himself how to use technology and
not so dependent with the technology so that technology does not become a
boomerang for humanity and ultimately destructive nature of our earth.

B. Advice

That in writing this paper as the author knows not what readers think, the author
considers that the differences of opinion will occur when we face each other but
will be consistent if we direction. But to improve this writing, the author hopes
to deal with readers to submit criticisms and suggestions to the author. And many
thanks.