Question: What's the pros and cons for the development of technology and would it ever effect your jobs?

Sebastian Cosgrove answered on 7 Mar 2019:

The pros for the development of technology with respect to science, are that with new technology we can do new experiments that often were not possible before. Supercomputers for example mean we can generate and analyse massive amounts of data that we were simply not able to do 30 years ago. Being able to get all this new data drives discovery meaning we learn lots of new things quite quickly that will ultimate help society!
One of the main cons, in my opinion, is there is so much new technology that is being invented and designed, is that we don’t often know how to apply it in the best way to make full use of it. Take graphene as an example. After it’s discovery about a decade ago, there was an explosion in the amount of research done into it, and also the amount of money poured into it. However now there is a bit of a downwards trajectory as people don’t fully understand how to use it or how to apply all the things that were discovered with it! This leads to the main problem which is a series of unproductive investments, and ultimately wasting money and time.