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Question 1

technology is a __________, like most human things. It involves
both gain and loss, merit and demerit.

Answer 1

double-edged sword

Question 2

the true value of technology is not about replacing human experience but _________

Answer 2

mitigating
its deficiencies.

Question 3

Throughout most of human history, people lived in simple __________

Answer 3

hunter-gatherer
societies.

Question 4

emerged less than 5,000 years ago, and it is only in the last
200 years that modern industrial society has come into being.

Answer 4

Agrarian societies

Question 5

confidence that we live better now than earlier
generations, while question whether life is getting worse.

Answer 5

Progress optimists , pessimists

Question 6

that advances in science and technology will
lead to a better future for humanity.

Answer 6

The Optimist View

Question 7

believe that technology has
consistently improved our lives for the better and is likely to do so in the future.

Answer 7

Techno-optimists

Question 8

Several achievements of modern society draw through the
idea that life is getting better. One is the unparalleled rise in the material standard
of living; the average citizen lives more easily now than kings did centuries ago.

Answer 8

Material Standard of Living.

Question 9

A number of social evils have been decreased, such as poverty,
inequality, ignorance, and oppression. A recent statement of this view can be found
in ___________ by _________

Answer 9

Untimely Death is reduced, It’s getting better all the time’, Moore and Simon (2000).

Question 10

The idea that we can progress society by ‘social
engineering’ is part of this belief and forms the ideological foundation many major
contemporary institutions,

Answer 10

Improvement in Evolutionary View.

Question 11

This is a traditional religious view of earthly life as a phase of penance
awaiting paradise in the afterlife breaks the knowledge that life is getting better.

Answer 11

Reduced Suffering.

Question 12

advances in science and technology do
not lead to an improvement in the human condition.

Answer 12

Pessimist View

Question 13

universe exhibits two faces,

Answer 13

constructive side, and
destructive side.

Question 14

Deviant behavior, such as criminality, drug use, and school refusal, is one
of the problems that contribute to this view.

Answer 14

Contemporary Social Problems.

Question 15

“The progress paradox’.

Answer 15

Easterbrook (2003)

Question 16

Society is not a piece of equipment, but rather an uncontrollable force that presses
humans into a way of life that does not really fit them in society’s view.

Answer 16

Society Drifting away from Human Nature.

Question 17

“Our most powerful 21st-century
technologies—robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech—are threatening to make
humans an endangered species.”

Answer 17

Bill Joy (then Chief Scientist at Sun Microsystems)

Question 18

has its “gray goo” problem-self-
replicating nanobots out of control.

Answer 18

Nanotechnology

Question 19

fundamental cause which has led the
world into its present predicament. Fast
rather than slow, more rather than less -
this flashy “development” is linked
directly to society’s impending collapse.

Answer 19

Extravagance of desire (Masanobu Fukuoka)

Question 20

notes that societies need to protect certain resources such as food,
energy, and natural resources in order to sustain their populations.

Answer 20

Tainter (1990),

Question 21

draws attention to the danger of creeping normalcy,
stating to the phenomenon of a slow trend being concealed within noisy fluctuations, so
that a detrimental outcome that occurs in small, almost unnoticeable steps may be
accepted or come about without resistance even if the same outcome, had it come about
in one sudden leap, would have evoked a vigorous response.

Answer 21

Diamond

Question 22

Individual societies can collapse, but this is doubtful to
have a determining effect on the future of humanity if other advanced societies
survive and take up where the failed societies left off. All historical cases of collapse
have been of this kind.

Answer 22

Local Societal Collapse:

Question 23

We suppose new kinds of threat (e.g., nuclear holocaust
or catastrophic changes in the global environment) or the trend towards
globalization increased interdependence of different parts of the world and create
a vulnerability to human civilization as a whole.

Answer 23

Global Societal Collapse:

Question 24

are so powerful that they can spawn whole new classes of accidents and abuses.
Most dangerous for the first time are these accidents and abuses.

Answer 24

Genetics, Nanotechnology, and Robotics
(GNR) -

Question 25

The idea of a technological singularity tied specifically to artificial
intelligence and stated: “Let an ultra-intelligent machine be defined as a machine that can
far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever.

Answer 25

Good (1965).

Question 26

invention that man need ever make… It is more probable than not that, within the
twentieth century, an ultra-intelligent machine will be built.”

Answer 26

first ultra-intelligent machine

Question 27

elaborated the idea in the coming technological singularity, adjusting
the timing of Good’s prediction: “Within thirty years, we will have the technological means
to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly thereafter, the human era will be ended”

Answer 27

Vernor Vinge

Question 28

is good and it can change our society, but the way we use it will
measure if it is beneficial or not.

Answer 28

Technology

Question 29

determined through imagination and creative thinking

Answer 29

1.) Computer technology future
2.) Next generation wearable computer
3.) Watch technology upcoming
4.) The forthcoming of home technology
5.) The coming of classroom technology

Question 30

imagined all sorts of groundbreaking inventions, but reality
holds as many captivating examples of advance technology that is changing people’s/
human everyday lives which could impact them in the future.

Answer 30

sci-fi genre

Question 31

new inventions

Answer 31

a-k

Question 32

tech-savvy community that unravels mysteries of the digital
realm and showcases innovations presented their latest video that dive into the exciting
world of new technology

Answer 32

TechVortex,

Question 33

top 10 Al gadgets in 2024

Answer 33

enumerate

Question 34

are almost
open, yet we seem hardly to have noticed. Ideas can’t be. put back in a box; unlike uranium
or plutonium, they don’t need to be mined and refined, and they can be freely copied.
Once they are out, they are out.

Answer 34

new Pandora’s Box (TECHNOLOGY)

Question 35

remarked, in a famous left-handed compliment,
that the American people and their leaders “invariably do the right thing, after they have
examined every other alternative.”

Answer 35

Churchill

Question 36

“We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us’;

Answer 36

Thoreau

Question 37

According to __________, there are four future scenarios for the Humanity
and Technology:

Answer 37

Nick Bostrom (2004)

Question 38

perhaps the least affected by spreading the
timeframe of consideration. If humanity goes extinct, it stays extinct. The
cumulative probability of extinction increases monotonically over time.

Answer 38

The EXTINCTION SCENARIO

Question 39

becomes progressively unlikely the
longer the timescale, for reasons that are apparent from figure. The scenario
assumes that technological civilization will hesitate continuously within a relatively
narrow band of progress. I

Answer 39

The RECURRENT COLLAPSE SCENARIO

Question 40

the recurrent collapse scenario in the level of
civilization is theorized to remain confined within a narrow range; and the longer
the timeframe considered, the smaller the probability that the level of technological
growth will remain within this range.

Answer 40

PLATEAU SCENARIOS

Question 41

like extinction,
increases monotonically over time. Contrast to extinction scenarios there is a
possibility that a civilization that has achieved a post human condition will later
return to a human condition.

Answer 41

The CUMULATIVE PROBABILITY OF POST HUMANITY,

Question 42

is a theory/concept that is of an advance level of technological or
economic development that would involve a radical change in the human condition,
whether the change was brought by biological enhancement or other causes.

Answer 42

Post humanity

Question 43

four families of scenarios we have considered

Answer 43

extinction, recurrent
collapse, plateau, and post humanity,

Question 44

could be controlled by varying the period over
hypothesized occur.

Answer 44

The longer term