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WHEN TECHNOLOGY AND HUMANITY CROSS The idea that new technologies can liberate us from the human condition is a fantasy. In reality, the 21st-century will be all too human. • IMPORTANCE OF TECHNOLOGY TO HUMANITY Technology has a profound on every aspect of lives. The way we live, interact changes th...

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WHEN TECHNOLOGY AND HUMANITY CROSS -

The idea that new technologies can liberate us from the human condition is a fantasy. In reality, the 21st-century will be all too human.

• IMPORTANCE OF TECHNOLOGY TO HUMANITY - Technology has a profound on every aspect of lives. The way we live, interact changes through technology in the different fields of education, medicine transportations, economy, communications and politics • HUMANITY - From the Latin word “humanitas” which means “human nature, kindness” - Humanity is the human race, which includes everybody on earth - It is also a word for the qualities that make us human, such as the ability to love and have compassion, be creative and not be a robot or alien. • PURPOSE OF TECHNOLOGY TO HUMANITY - To solve human problems • ADVANTAGES OF TECHNOLOGY - Life has become easy through science and technology - Travelling has become faster than before - Communicating becomes easier, faster and cheaper it also increase the standard of living - Man become advanced - The impossible become possible due to the progress in science and technology

• DISADVANTAGES OF TECHNOLOGY - Humans had misused the technology and used in damaging purpose - By the use of technology, man is doing illegal things - New technology like mobile are generating bad consequences to the children - By means of modern technology, terrorist use it for destructive purpose - Many illness are created due to the development of atomic energy and atom bomb - Natural beauty is decreasing due to the development of modern technology • LIMITS OF TECHNOLOGY ➢ BUILDING A BETTER BATTERY - They are a building block of our technological world these days. Consequently, if we are limited by their power, and capability to hold a charge, the technology which uses them is also limited ➢ IMPROVING INTERNET ACCESS - Until the majority of individuals are connected, technological developments are not going to happen as fast as they could ➢ THE BUSINESS OF NEW TECH - Technological progress is stunted by arcane matters such as patent law. Businesses take their time introducing new gadgets and services because they must first navigate a minefield of laws and government regulations • DAVID MATTIN ➢ HUMANITY

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 A virtue associated with basic ethics of altruism derived from human condition ( wikipedia). According to Confucius, humanity is a” love of people”, if you want to make a stand, help others make a stand. HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION - Today, in the era of present technology, robotics has become a big part of our collective lives. Robots are utilized for their knowledge, exactness and interminable vitality to perform assignments consistently and profitably, that when performed by people tends to create flaws. For instance, all robots have already started an enormous job in improving waste administration and finding distinctive approaches to handle the waste issue endured by most developing nations like India. Indeed, the robot age has arrived. The possibility of robots may bring to most minds the possibility of androids like T-800 in the movie “Terminator”. The vast majority of us are not able to understand that a lot of robots exist in the most basic forms today; they are not so much android but rather more like industrial tools or equipment. This implies the world would be prepared for more smart intelligence to be utilized in day-to-day applications (Singh). THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY ON HUMAN HEALTH - Technology has crept into every corner of our lives, form obsessive texting to checking emails more often. Most of us absorb three times more information everyday compared with 50 years ago. According to University of California researchers, we spend 12 hours in front of TV and computers at home. Multitasking participants had more difficulty filtering out irrelevant information than those focusing on one task at a time. Teens, however, are emotionally more vulnerable to the

effects of rampant texting and online sharing. According to a 2010 Nielsin survey, we send and receive text messages 3, 339 times a month (Deodhar). ➢ THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY (Nick Bostrom, 2009) EXTINCTION - An estimated 99% of all species that ever existed on earth are already extinct (Raup, 1991). There are different ways in which human species could become extinct: Primarily, by transforming or evolving into one or more species or by merely dying out without any replacement or continuation. Our species has survived earthquake, volcanic eruption, typhoons and other natural phenomena for tens of thousands of years. Nowadays, one of the utmost extinction risks arise from human activity. For instance, Advances in biotechnology might make it possible to design new viruses that combine the easy contagion and mutability of the influenza virus. A dreadful pandemic with high virulence and 100% mortality rate among infected individuals could possibly will terminate human species. Additionally, an all-out nuclear war between Russia and the United States might be an example of a global catastrophe that would be unlikely to result in extinction. ➢ RECURRENT COLLAPSE - This means that the human condition will reach a kind of statis, either instantly or after undergoing one or more cycles of collapse regeneration. Human civilization may endure catastrophes that prevent it from moving beyond a certain level of advancement. It also requires a carefully calibrated homeostatic mechanism that possesses the level of civilization restricted within a relatively narrow interval.

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PLATEAU - Human civilization may reach a level of technological advancement beyond which no further advancement is feasible. Predictions that life span can be greatly increased have depended in part on the apparent decelerations and plateaus. POST HUMANITY - People have developed significantly different cognitive abilities, population sizes, body types, sensory or emotional experiences or life expectancies. Post humanity has established itself as a label for a form of human existence radically transformed by the most advanced medical techniques and by the use of biotechnology and nanotechnology for human enhancement.

• TECHNOLOGY TRENDS (Jayshree Pandya) 1. Biological Engineering and Bio-Economy 2. Molecular Manufacturing and Self-replicating Systems 3. Distributed Additive Manufacturing 4. Artificial Intelligence Driven Automation 5. Neuromorphic Computing and Computing Beyond Turing Limit 6. Quantum Computing and Control 7. Nanosatellites and Space Exploration 8. Internet to BrainNet 9. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine 10. Brain Mapping and Brain Uploading

• ETHICS - “the principles of right and wrong that individuals, acting as free moral agents, use to make choices to guides their behavior” • ETHICAL DILEMMA - Two opposing courses of action - Both support worthwhile courses • TOP 10 ETHICAL DILEMMAS OF 21ST CENTURY SCIENCE 1. Real time satellite surveillance 2. Astronaut bioethics of colonizing mars - On December 5, 2014, NASA launched the Orion spacecraft and NASA administrator Charles Bolden declared it “Day One of the Mars Era” - The company Mars One was planning to launch a robotic mission to Mars in 2018, with human following in 2025 - 418 men and 287 women from around the world are currently vying for four spots on the first one-way human settlement mission 3. Wearable technology - Wearable has the potential to teach us - Protect our health, as well as violate our privacy in any ways 4. State sponsored hactivism and soft war 5. Enhanced pathogens 6. Non-lethal weapons 7. Robot swarms - Its principles are inspired by the collective inset societies used for developing computer algorithms and motion control principles for robotics

The basic idea is that a swarm of individuals can coordinate and behave as a single entity that performs better than the individuals 8. Artificial life form - Research on artificial life forms is an area of synthetic biology focused on custom-building life forms to address specific purposes 9. Brain-to-brain interfaces - Allowing for direct communication from one brain to another without speech - The interactions can be between humans or between humans and animals -...