Technological Hazard

There is no doubt that the Japanese economic miracle after the last war is attributable to its high technologies in addition to every effort of all the people to pick up the recovery. Although it seems that the developments of basic technologies are a little less advanced compared with the Western countries, Japan has become a leading runner in the field of applied technologies. SONY, for example, used a basic technology of transistor invented by an American electrical manufacturer to put it into practical use. With the technology, the small business at that time made a debut in the American electrical markets to launch small transistor radios. And then SONY gave a big impact to the world with a long lasting hit or WALKMAN, which gathers all the SONY's technologies. In any other fields Japan has been better at applied technologies rather than basic ones newly created from zero.

The existence of creators, needless to say, is very important in the technological developments. But the existence of innovators is also important to drive further developments. In this sense, the role of Japan or Japanese companies has been making contributions to the world's technologies. When basic technologies are born in one country, innovators like Japan make drastic improvements to make them pragmatic for convenience human life. Stimulated by the technological improvements, the creators or other potential innovators make further improvements.

This technological competition has worked very well since Industrial Revolution for the quality of life. Starting with the inventions of type-printing or steam engines, People, nowadays, have been able to call phones, watch TV, drive cars, fly all over the world and get east access to information through the Internet without too much cost. The continuous developments of technologies looking for human better life, however, could cause troubles sometimes. Car accidents, for example, have become so familiar in our life that no one would be surprised at the fact that more than 10,000 people die in the Japanese roads every year. But cars are absolutely indispensable in today's life. The same seriously, there has been a series of nuclear accidents recently in the big technological giant of Japan, which depends on more than one third of all electricity for nuclear energy. Information technologies as the most spotlighted are also giving nuisance to the innocent computer users in the shadow. When it comes to high technologies, we have to understand that there are benefits and convenience although it's highly difficult to know how the technologies are risky. .

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