Science has made tremendous progress during the nineteenth and the twentieth century’s. We have progressed from the primitive stage to a modern lifestyle that was unheard of a couple of years ago. Science has contributed immensely to our everyday life.
We get up when we want in the morning as the alarm clock rings. Our breakfast is prepared with the help of electronic gadgets. Modern fashion has given us a choice of clothing to dress ourselves to suit the occasion. We travel to our place in a motor vehicle-a scooter or a car or a public transport. Fast trains and aero-planes are there to take us to any destination outside our city in the shortest time possible. A journey that would have taken days and sometimes months in the past is completed in a matter of hours.
Computers, Internet and Information Technology have made communication with people sitting thousands of miles away almost instantaneous. Letters and telegrams have become a thing of the past in the twenty-first century. We can not only exchange information but can also talk to and see the other party chatting to us, even though he or she is in a remote corner of the world. Science has indeed proved to be a blessing to us all in everyday life. It has enabled us to conquer time and space.
Medical advances have found cures for almost all diseases, except cancer and AIDS, in the last few years. As a result, people live longer and healthier today. Infant mortality and death of young mothers during and after birth have drastically come down, contributing to human well- being and happiness.
Science has brought us new and advanced means of entertainment through the radio, cinema, television and the internet. It has transformed our everyday life in ways we could not have imagined earlier.
Science has made valuable difference to the everyday life of a housewife. She makes food on gas cylinders, stoves and preserves it in a refrigerator and can heat it on a microwave at short notice. She can do her washing in a washing machine and iron the clothes with the help of an electric iron, thus getting enough spare time to rest and pursue her hobbies and interests as well as help the children in their homework.
The everyday life of manual laborers has become more Bearable with the increasing use of implements for digging, boring, laying the roads and agriculture operations. The printing technology has made books, newspapers and magazines accessible at cheap rates to millions of people and contributed to literacy and education of the masses in a big way. Science had, indeed, proved to be a blessing in our everyday life.
But Science has also produced weapons of mass destruction that threaten the very existence of civilization at the touch of a button. It is therefore, not an unmixed blessing. It lies in our own hands whether we want to destroy hundreds of years of progress and development that Science has brought us or use its blessings for peace, health and prosperity of mankind in the years to come.
