Hello, my name is Kevin Tran, Candidate Number 0612 , Center Number US-218, and I attend Oakleaf High School. For today, I will be discussing my groups question “Should global leaders place more emphasis on technological advancements?” and I will be specifically focusing on scientific technology and its impact towards health.
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SLIDE 2
The history about scientific technology, define as how humanity's understanding of science and technology, is now having a significant impact everywhere in the world and is being used in our daily lives. Scientific Technology, containing x-rays, robots, drones, computers and clones are having an influence towards the medical field and these devices may become more useful in the near future. Science is so called the systematic study of structure and behaviour of physical and the natural world through many tests, research, and observations and technology which is the implications of scientific knowledge, and these combine create Scientific Technology which is frequently used in a system of methods used in an area of study called methodology.
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SLIDE 3 HEALTH
Health is a major problem in the environment and some of the things that technology impacted also include telemedicine, mobility, and many other things. The strengths on scientific technology on healthcare is outweighing the negatives. Looking at the patient’s perspective, it actually benefits them because lower healthcare could be easily maintained. Technology and Healthcare go both hand to hand and there are many ways technology is changing healthcare. In medicine and healthcare, digital technology could help transform unsustainable healthcare systems into sustainable ones. Robotics and scientific technology applies to robots and robotics are one of the most exciting and fastest growing fields of healthcare. Developments range from robot companions through surgical robots until pharmabotics, with the help of these devices, paralyzed people can walk and create rehabilitation of stroke or spinal cord to injured patients. They can enhance strength so that it allows a nurse to lift an elderly patient, so robotics is very important to the health/medical field. Also, the internet has become a main source of medical information, healthcare facilities are reaching patients using social media, better treatment and less suffering , improved patient care and worker efficiency, and doctors are easier to reach and better at their jobs. Reasons why is this is important and significant is because the process is taking it to another level and the way doctors use technology as a resource that would benefit them and the patients is astonishing. Also, with the touch of a smartphone doctors can access thousands of pages of medical textbooks, technology has also enabled doctors to use e-mail, texts, videos, and conference facilities to consult colleagues from all over the world. They can also use online medical databases to easily look up case studies and check out detailed patient history.
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To show how important scientific technology is to the medical field, medical technology is now worth $336.2 billion dollars worldwide. They are closely linked aspects of society and the studies and developments in both these fields are essential for the overall progress of mankind. Why is technology so important? How does scientific development affect society? According to mHealth, 52% of smartphone users gather health-related information on their phones, searching up medical problems, symptoms, health insurance, and much more on the web. Professionals related into the medical field use mobile devices for mobile health services, predicted to be a $26 billion market globally by 2017, according to the 2013-2017 Mobile Health Market Report, which makes you think “who would have ever known that mobile health technology is impacting society?”. Lastly, according to Wolters Kluwer Health Infographic 72% of physicians access drug information from smartphones, 63% of physicians access medical research from tablets, and 44% of physicians communicate with nurses and other staff from smartphones, which makes technology such an impact.
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SLIDE 5 CLONING
Cloning is an example of scientific technology which is a scientific feature and the information about it is so significant that it could change the world. Scientists in China cloned monkeys and was a process which it could help treat cancer. This is amazing because this is one of the first steps that could lead us into making human clones in the near future. “For many cell types, reprogramming is more difficult for adult cells than for fetal cells,” says Robert Lanza, chief scientist at the Astellas Institute for Medicine in Massachusetts, whose team cloned human adult skin cells for the first time in 2014. Scientists over in China have developed a more improved way for cloning ever since Dolly The Sheep back in 1996. This was discovered in 2018 which shows how new the information is and how close we are to developing a new life changing process, which is very important because we can see that more improvement would be coming soon in the near future and hopefully human cloning would be relevant soon.
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SLIDE 6 (Counter Argument, Negatives)
Technology can have a large impact on people, affecting their mental and physical health. Being overly connected can cause psychological issues such as distraction, narcissism, expectation of instant gratification, and even depression. Beside affecting their mental health, use of technology can also have negative repercussions on physical health causing vision problems, hearing loss, and neck strain. Fortunately, there are steps that can be taken to help alleviate these health issues. Also, many think that scientific cloning should be banned. It is said that human reproductive cloning would be risky, "Data on the reproductive cloning of animals demonstrate that only a small percentage of attempts are successful, many of the clones die during all stages of gestation, newborn clones often are abnormal or die, and the procedures may carry serious risks for the mother." is used to show weakness on reproductive cloning and to disprove why reproductive cloning is bad and should be banned. Reproductive cloning has actually improved and scientists found better alternatives to make cloning more efficient and stable, but to this day cloning is not banned and is on the rise to clone humans which is a bigger risk and problem than cloning animals.
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SLIDE 7 (Solutions)
Science and Technology can successfully solve society problems. In the world, many people have stepped upon many problems, and scientifically, in the Western side, you do not have to grow food anymore and you do not need to depend on rain to wash your clothes, or worry about any kind of disease. With engineers, chemists, and biologists that deal with this type of work, they’ve developed agricultural technology which creates a way to produces nutritious food and has increased populations everywhere.
Technologically a solution for physical and mental health is simple but may take time. These simple solutions include taking breaks and rest, think about your motivation, and get away from the things that are putting you down and start doing things that make you more positive. Stepping away from your problems is a good way to maintain your ideas together and staying motivated is the principal for good health.
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SLIDE 8 (The Conclusion)
Taking everything in account, scientific technology is on the edge to significantly improve healthcare and will be on the rise in the near future. Examples such as human cloning, cloning itself, health care devices, and other technological uses in our lives are important to us and will definitely improve in the ultimate. Many obstacles have been passed due to science and technology alone and the future is bright for society. Scientifically, agricultural technology is an example and solution to society’s health and breaks, rests, and motivation are some solutions to help physical and mental health technologically.
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