One way technology has affected society for the better is in modern medicine. Today it is possible for doctors in one country, to perform surgeries on a person in another by using robotics. This is good thing because doctors in your country might not be as advanced, or as reliable as doctors in another country, and the use of robotics means more precision, and better results.
Another reason robotics in medicine are a good thing is because they are less invasive than if a person is cutting on you. There is less bleeding, less pain and shorter hospital stays (see here). An operation that would have kept you in the hospital for a week, now will keep you there for a day.
The actual robot is more like a video game. The doctor sits at controls, in the room or across the world, and uses joysticks that can move as much or as little as the doctor decides. Some critics to the idea of robots in medicine say that the robot might get out of hand and really do some damage to the person that is being worked on, this just isn’t true. The robot cannot be preprogrammed or set on “cruise” so everything that is happening the doctor is doing his or herself. If something happens for the wrong it is the doctors fault not the machines.
In closing I think that as a whole the technology in medicine has help society out a lot. We can help people now that before were left with lower standards and might not have faired so well. Today's technology has increased the life expectancy of people, and has helped in many more ways that I can’t even begin to list. I hope that in the years to come more advances, like the Da Vinci robot, come about to help out human kind.
