FINAL Flashcards
The world that things are changing and impermanent.
The world of matter
It is the world that the entities are only copies of the
ideal and the models, and the forms are the only real entities. Things are red in this world because they participate in
what it means to be red in this world
The world of forms
He declared the Greatest Happiness Principle by saying that an “action
is right as far as it maximizes the attainment of happiness for the greatest number of people”
John Stuart Mill
Atomos simply comes together randomly to form the things in the
world. As such, only material entities matter. In terms of human flourishing, matter is what makes us attain happiness.
Materialism
The mantra of
this school of thought is the famous, “Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die.”
Hedonism
It is a thought of life, led by Epicurus, the __ espurned the idea that to generate happiness, one must
learn to distance oneself and be apathetic. The original term, apatheia, precisely means to be indifferent. Happiness can only be attained by a careful practice of apathy.
Stoicism
This is a school of thought where Most people find the meaning of their lives using God as a fulcrum of their existence.
Theism
Another school of thought, espouses the freedom of man to carve his own destiny and to
legislate his own laws, free from the shackles of a God that monitors and controls. Man is literally the
captain of his own ship.
Humanism
The word “technology” came from the Greek words techne and logos
which mean __ and ___
Art and word
Types of devices
across all age groups. More
specific, these “celebrities” in the field of technology are
Television sets, mobile phones, and
computers
He was successful in his attempt to send images
through wires with the aid of a rotating metal disk. This invention was then called the “electric
telescope”
Paul Gottlieb
Nipkow
They created a new system of television by using the cathode ray tube in addition to the
mechanical scanner system.
Alan Swinton and Boris Rosing
A senior engineer at Motorola, made the world’s first mobile phone call.
It was known as the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X
Martin
Cooper
A nineteenth-century English
Mathematics professor, who designed the Analytical Engine
Charles Babbage
The first true portable computer was released in April 1981. It was called the
Osborne 1
A _____ is a robot that performs useful tasks for humans or equipment excluding
industrial automation application.
service robot
A ____ or a service robot for personal use is a service
robot used for a noncommercial task, usually by laypersons. Examples are domestic
servant robot, automated wheelchair, personal mobility assist robot, and pet exercising
robot.
Personal service robot
A ____ robot for professional use is a robot
used for a commercial task, usually operated by a properly trained operator. Examples
are cleaning robot for public places, delivery robot in offices or hospitals, fire-fighting
robot, rehabilitation robot, and surgery robot in hospitals.
Professional service robot
Some of the expected work to be performed by _____are the following: (1) “Clear up
the kitchen table” — all objects on top of the kitchen table will be moved to where they belong;
(2) “Fill the dishwasher” — the dirty dishes will be sorted correctly into the dishwasher; and
(3)
“Clear up this room” — all objects that are not in their proper places will be moved to where they
belong
DESIRE
The earliest conception of robots can be traced around ___ B.C. from the Egyptians
3000 B.C.
The earliest
robots as people know them were created in the early 1950s by _____. “Unimate” was
his first invention from the words “Universal Automation
George Devol
These laws were formulated by ___
back in the 1940s, when he was thinking of the ethical consequences of robots
Isaac Asimov
is defined as a “period starting in the last quarter of the 20th
century when information became effortlessly accessible through publications and through the
management of information by computers and computer networks”
Information Age
The ______ is also called the Digital Age and the New
Media Age because it was associated with the development of computers.
Information Age
