WritingTask 1

Nowadays, as technology develops, more and more needs and desires of people have been fulfilled. Meanwhile, the needs and goals of the society have also expanded. Therefore, it is important that the inventions and development of technology should meet the needs and goals of the society.

Engineers need money and facilities to put their thoughts into reality. If the ideas do not meet what the society want, engineers will hardly get any money and place to do the invention. In another case, even though the experiment process is finished, the invention is seldom used by the major group. Then the money and time spend are wasted. The money could have been used for other more promising projects. Thus, what the society need determines where engineers go.

We can also see it in another way. As we all know, the climate change, energy crisis, global warming and the problems caused by world population growth are drawing more and more attention from the whole world. Then there is a global trend that engineers strive for the solutions of the problems. And these areas are almost the hottest in engineering or going to flourish where attract more and more engineers to set foot in. the invest are also enlarging, no matter from the government or private institute. This is a counter proof to show that it is important to meet what the majority’s need.

No matter how we look at it, the idea that the goals and needs of the society are the major determination of what engineers are working on should be known to all of them.

Writing assignment 1
Question 1
There are three reasons why people resist new technology. The first one is that new technology may not be affordable for ordinary people. The price of the applications using such new technology is usually high, so people will think twice before buying it. If the technology is an upgrade, people have to buy new applications in order to use the new technology, which will cost much money. Thus, in most cases people will just use the current one. There is another tendency that people will wait for the price to go down. The second reason is habit. If one is accustomed to the current technology, he will probably not apply the new tech, especially when the current tech is enough for his usage. People are used to the current technology, so they tend not to change their habit even if the new technology seems to be nice. The third reason is that people are afraid that the new technology may not be as perfect as the old one. People usually think that whatever new has to be tested. Only after a certain time or using by other people will most people accept it and try it themselves. These are the three reasons why people tend to resist new technology.