It had been the rosy dream of man since remembered
time to make life more comfortable and enjoyable by lessening the strenuous pains in the stalk for daily survival. This fact is substantiated by archeological proofs of the evolving process of man’s development from primitive ignorant conditions through various stages of scientific discoveries for the improvement of his welfare.
Presently, man has successfully wrestled from nature the power to make the world a torrent of technology driven system with a tentative desire for the quick harvest of applied science. This goading desire  is tucked with  ambivalent tendencies, as man’s pursuit for comfort and happiness appears his greatest undoing.
The great issue about which hangs a true sublimity and terror of over-hanging fate, is man getting the most beneficial end to which obsessive technological drive is the means. In the industrial and commercial sector technological advancement has led to increase in productivity and has relieved man of physical stress and boredom. The increasing awareness in the use of machines that work with precision and in micro seconds has transformed the concept of white colar jobs most offices now use fast photocopying equipment which turn out accurate copies at a fraction of the cost of human labour. Scientists have also perfected phonetic type writers which can print direct from speech and translate simultaneously into different languages. Such machines are apt in the future to take over from highly skilled workers, indicating that there immense benefits are being obtained at the  price of man’s own right to work and be happy.
As these wonder machines take over man’s role becomes indeterminate. Automation now  threatens the livelihood of millions of executives, engineers, clerk and typists among others. The bulk of goods that flood the market as a result of technological breakthrough need to be bought by people and this requires that people must still work to acquire these products. The people displaced as a result of technologic  advances still belong to the society and as such needs alternative jobs to make them active members of the society by contributing economically through services and purchasing power.
In developed countries the citizens enjoy the surplus of these technological wonders through the provision of social benefits. But in developing, or still under developing countres, it increases human firing and build a complex mechanical system through a complete dependency on the machines, usually imported with few technicians to maintain and service them. This is akin to what the late Afro beat maestro, Fela Anikulakpo Kuti, referred to as ‘permanent reverse’, a term that portrayed the doldrum in Nigerian’s economic system.
Another area where technological advances has placed man at his own mercy is in the exhibition of military might. As Dr Milton Elsen however once wrote, “modern man worships at the temple of science but science tells him only what is possible not what is right”. With the bumptious brandishment of weapons  of mass destruction and other discovered scientific warfare such as biological weapons, man continues to titter on a precipice, ignoring the reverbrative effects of his ominous actions.
A world were determined terrorists with the backup of highly trained scientists recruited on lucrative offers, can, in an instant, snuff out the lives of thousands of unsuspecting people all in the name of technology, shows that the human conscience has been membed by blind ego and the cruelty of undisciplined feelings towards the values and sanctity of his very existence. It is more disheartening to note that these terrorists possess comparable financial and technological resources with some governments.
As observed by Albert Einsten, just when humanity found the means to overcome its problems, it forget what they were, and lost its purpose. In scientific discoveries, man should not be tempted by the subtle application of the obvious possibilities of modern technology to his detriment. When this is done he debases his positive creative values and becomes not only a mere cog in the chain of practical realities towards the preservation of the dignity of man, but also becomes an agent of his own dispossession and outright destruction.
The dawn of the golden age of scientific revolution which man relentlessly sought for is here. The globalisation process has indeed been made possible by advances in technology. However, man continues to waddle in a finicky and puzzling confusion with a tentative fight over the possibilities of his own daily scientific discoveries. He flusters in a tangle of miserable self-pity over who should deliver him from his self destructive tendencies. He also rattles between his old fear of redundancy and the new fear of imaginative change to match with the entangling challenges of new technological discoveries. Man must therefore re-identify his real goals if he is not to wrench himself perpetually in an encircling gloom of consistent scientific exploit.
Taneh Beemene