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Notion Idea of Progress

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Anglais: Présentation notion idée de Progrès I am going talk about the notion idea of progress. First of all I would like to give a definition of this notion: The idea of progress can be defined as an improvement, a development or a change a technical, scientific or social advance which contributes to making the world a better place. The Idea of Progress is the theory that the different advances in technology, science, and social organization can produce an improvement in the human condition. That is, people can become happier in terms of quality of life (social progress) through economic development (modernization), and the application of science and technology (scientific progress). Progress implies change and evolution and throughout history most of the advances have been positive. However the rhythm of progress seems to have accelerated over the last few decades and the technological bre...

« But, on the other hand there are parents ; they might be interested because it allows them to choose mental and physical characteristics.

For example the text B, Molly parents, having a designer baby wasn't even a choice, otherwise he would have died .

This shows that it is scientific progress can be used to remove genetic diseases for example , which saves babies normally would have died .

The author wants therefore illustrate two points of views .

And show how science can actually be used for survives of the human race . In conclusion we can say that , there are advantages to social progress but there are also disadvantages such as (tel que/"such is") in the documents that we saw , society seeks to create a human species without default and that it will use the technological progress that continue to progress.

But it uses science to create men without default because in this document we can see that it is possible to create a human from scratch , such as choosing the color of the eyes.

But I think science should not be used in order to choose the character of a baby, but to remove genetic diseases and allow a child to be many handicapped all their lives.. »

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