Chapter 4: Technology and the Future of Humanity

Question 1

is the view that technological improvements will sustain life as human population continues to to increase.

Answer 1

Technological Optimism

Question 2

They listed 100 technological innovations that are likely to occur in the last quarter of the 20th Century

Answer 2

Herman Kahn and Anthony Wiener

Question 3

also poses both advantages and disadvantages, as the practice may be misused or abused by the authorities

Answer 3

DNA Testing

Question 4

First drawn up in 1965 and was deemed achievable to construct in 1973 only to be suspended in the 1980’s.

Answer 4

Chico River Dam Project

Question 5

project in Rizal proposed in 2012 not only threatened the displacement of local tribes and the grabbing of ancestral lands, it also posed severe environmental destruction

Answer 5

Kaliwa Low Dam

Question 6

is an invention that illustrates how technology can be purposively used to inflict damage on others

Answer 6

Agent Orange

Question 7

It is a herbicide and defoliant chemical – a mixture of 2,4,5-Trichlorophenoxyacetic acid and 2,4 Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid

Answer 7

Agent Orange

Question 8

this computer virus reportedly created by Filipino IT students, destroyed files, stole user passwords, and compromised confidential data from government agencies and private companies.

Answer 8

ILOVEYOU virus

Question 9

He created a dystopian world 600 years into the future in which humans are engineered through artificial wombs and indoctrinated into predetermined classes that dictate how they should act and be perceived in history.

Answer 9

Aldous Huxley

Question 10

stated that “Our most powerful 21st Century technologies– robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology –are threatening to make humans an endangered species.

Answer 10

Bill Joy’s “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us.”