What are the benefits from these modern technological advancements?

Question

I meant to say what are the benefits of surgical advanced technology?

Answer 1

Well, it all depends on what modern technological advancements you had in mind, doesn't it?

Most of the advances in technology tend to make using it more "transparent" in some sense of the word. Allow me to explain. I do not have to understand the quantum mechanics involved in the thermal emission of photons, nor do I have to understand the details of electrical wiring and the generation of electricity by rotating a wire loop through a fixed magnetic field or any of the electromagnetic field theory involved, to be able to flip a switch and turn on an electric light bulb. Though vast amounts of technology (including huge areas I've not listed, like the materials science, design issues and all that) are involved in an electric light, the system is "transparent" in that you only need to know how to flip a switch to use it.

Likewise, use of computers has become easier: trust me, compared to the programming I once did in machine language, V-Basic is wonderful! I don't have to know much of anything about bits and bytes and words and all that, or shift registers or off page references and all that. It's done automatically.

Does that make any sense?