CRITICAL ANNOTATED WEBLIOGRAPHY ~Q3

Guiding Questions:
Frankenstein continues to occupy the popular imagination as a monstrous
scientist. Analyze some of the ways in which Frankenstein haunts discussions of recent technologies.

Frankenstein was named by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s novel in 1818. She talked about a scientist named Victor Frankenstein who collect different part of dead body and recombination that. Also Frankenstein created life for that and make it like a men who have more powerful. After that, people have tended to use “Frankenstein” to describe scientist. And Frankenstein as an elements infused in different types of films, stories etc. Also, public use to describe something which infuse scientist especially for technologies. Therefore I will find some case to analyze Frankenstein discussions of recent technologies in some of the ways.

In the article of The Curse of Frankenstein, Robert is talking about Genetic Foods. He argues that Genetic food as a Frankenstein. For many years, people are started arguing the harms for human being caused by the genetic foods. Nowadays, the FDA set up new regulations to restrict and monitor these kinds of foods. Started from baby-bomb, the food production became cant fulfill populations need. Thus made scientist and the farmer had new idea to modify the crops and livestock gene to make a larger gain for the fasting food needs. However, some people are just considered how harm did the genetics foods will affect human being body. Food is the most importance factory for human to maintain the life, thus all argue started have a large supporter to made the genetic modify must stop for ensure people’s health because of lack of limitations and restriction for this kinds of foods. Even though the FDA listed the regulations for restricted these kinds of food, however some people are still not willing to choose these kinds of the genetic food. This is because they do not know the sciences and technologies well and they afraid this is a kind of food. It is time to expose and reject the primitive fear of technology that lurks behind the attack on genetically modified foods.

Also, I find out the other one article Baby cloning: a Frankenstein experiment or the answer to many which is talking about baby cloning for some couple who have problem of male sterility.Since there are some argue of that, Severino Antinori an Italian professor points out scientific feats scientific feats not as a Frankenstein experiment, but as practical solution to the problem of male infertility. He believes that cloning may be a method to solve the problem of male infertility and help them have an ordinary child who is unique individual. Also, he thinks that cloning as a fruitful scientific to help sterility couple to have a child which they want. However, this idea was bans in some countries because of legislation. So he finds out some case to support his views such as a couple who live in Monifieth they want to have a girl to replace "the female dimension in their family" because of cloning can help them to select the sex of their baby. Besides that, in the article it also mentions that Professor Antinori had succeeded helping a 62 year-old women have a baby in 1994. However, it was query by Lord Robert Winston the fertility expert. And regional organizer also against cloning baby because it will be brings out a lot of ethical and medical problems.

Besides that, some people will reference to “Frankenstein” when they hear some new technology which challenges our traditional ideas of human such as organ transplants, genetic engineering or cloning. For those situations, Harold the director of National Institutes of Health points out some views in the article of Promise and Peril "They may come up with a disease that can't be cured, even a monster. Is this the answer to Dr. Frankenstein's dream?" In the article, it mention that how to find out the balance of science and medicine, animal organs in humans, Human Dissection etc between science research and the fears from Mary Shelley’s novel.. Harold believes that transplantation of tissue and dissected human corpses are use for medical research which is different of Victor Frankenstein who is a doctor in Mary Shelley’s novel. Also, technicians sliced helps us know more about our body and it is useful for teach anatomy and surgical techniques. However, those technologies also brings out some public fears such as the case of cloned sheep—Dolly it make public concern more about consequences of cloning and the case of Unresolved Risks in transmittal of animal viruses to humans.

Technologies out of control and will harms human? In the article of "You are my creator, but I am your master...." -- Frankenstein’s monster, Frankenstein in the University by Luke Femandez, he had some views against on these issues especially on the academic events. As the new technologies developed and it helps a lot for helping people to education in the different ways, such like to give lesson by internet, the distance learning. All these methods are based by through the new media. This made people can be learnt more convenience but it also caused problem on the technology support. Because of we enjoy all these soft media but it let us lack of interact to the other learners and the teachers. These phenomenons just look likes we had done something with a robot. In case when the robot becomes with problem, we have to hold on out studies. In the meantime, the technologies support also being controlled by the systems vendor, as the learning systems are designed by this party, the knowledge and the skills are all set up and maintained by them. It means our technology, our working, our learning and our life shall be controlled of their labor.

As thinking of our daily life, the new technology affects us a lot everywhere and it caused a lot of the problem thereby from the war to religion, for the life style to the environment. Form the article of The Advocates of Technophobia; it mentioned the issue as well. The new technology limited human’s developing on different way caused by the region and the sources. For some countries, they can use a lot of amount of sources to develop the technology for improve he life, but for some others, they still struggle for the basic need. The technology cause unfair for the world but nobody can change it as the power decided everything at this moment. Disease is the only thing whom is fair for every one, but the technology had broken it as well due as some countries can develop new method for remedy it but not for all. We are now seeking the equal world for humans, thus the technology should not be the threat for restrict the forward step.




Reference

Alan Caruba, The Advocates of Technophobia
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3833 (Accessed 3 March 2009)

Harold E. Varmus, M.D, Promise and Peril "They may come up with a disease that can't be cured, even a monster. Is this the answer to Dr. Frankenstein's dream?"
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/frankenstein/frank_promise.html(Accessed 3 March 2009)

Luke Fernandez, "You are my creator, but I am your master...." -- Frankenstein’s monster, Frankenstein in the University.
http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2008/05/Frankenstein-in-the-University.aspx?Page=1 (Accessed 3 March 2009)
Robert W. Tracinski, The Curse of Frankenstein It’s time for the villagers to torch the “Frankenfood”myth http://www.capitalismcenter.org/ProTech/Archives/Curse_of_Frankenstein.htm(Accessed 3 March 2009)
Sarah-Kate Templeton, Baby cloning: a Frankenstein experiment or the answer too many
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4156/is_20010311/ai_n13956370(Accessed 3 March 2009)