【正确答案】正确答案： The Impacts of Science and Technology on Humankind Nowadays, science and technology has been progressing at an astonishingly rapid rhythm, and it has been changing our lives in a scaring way. However, there are both advantages and disadvantages of its impacts. On the one hand, there are many benefits of its impacts which can make the society better off. For example, advances in cosmetic surgery will lead to people being highly satisfied with their personal appearance and happiness among society will be increased. People who aren"t satisfied with their appearance will now be able do a facial plastic, and they won"t be depressed anymore. Another example is genetically modified food. The ability to modify the food"s genes will allow crops to grow faster. This will lead to higher amounts of food being produced at lower prices. As a consequence, world"s hunger rates will be dramatically reduced, with higher nutrition rates taking place. Overall, human life will be changed in a very positive way by advancements such as those being mentioned before and some actual key issues won"t exist anymore. On the other hand, science and technology has also got disadvantages along its great advantages. It also includes some disastrous disadvantages which can be a great harm for us. For example, more and more chemical substances are used in crop growing which increase the crop output but at the same time change the intrinsic quality of the crops. And those changes can really do harm to people"s health. Just look at the number of people who have heart disease or other healthy problems, we will know how extensive the influence those changes bring is. Another example is related to environment. Human being"s science and technology development leads the whole world into the industrial society; however, it also makes the environment we live in become polluted. All in all, we should pay enough attention to both its advantages and disadvantages. Use it intelligently and effectively.