Technological and Scientific Progress In Our Life

I would like to tell you a few words about technological and scientific progress. As you know, scientific and technological progress play very important role in our life. They accelerate the development of civilization and help us in the different aspects of our life.

Let's compare our life nowadays with the life of people at the beginning of the 20th century. It has changed beyond recognition. Our ancestors couldn’t imagine all things which we use today in our life. All this things like TV sets, microwave ovens, mobiles and computers are the product of the scientific and technical progress.

If we tell our ancestors about this great inventions of the science they will be almightily surprised. On the other hand, the great inventions of the beginning of the 20th century, I mean radio, airplanes, combustion and jet engines have become usual things and we can't imagine our life without them. Many changes occurred in the scientific sphere and did many discoveries in the past century, which we must remember.

And now we live in the information era when the computer network embraces the globe and connects not only the countries and space stations but a lot of people all over the world. All these things prove the power and the greatest progressive role of science in our life.

But all of this achievements of the humanity have other side. The rapid scientific progress has aroused a number of problems that are a matter of our great concern. These are ecological problems, the safety of nuclear power stations, the nuclear war threat, and so on. But still we are grateful to the outstanding men, which gave us a lot of important scientific discoveries.