Module 6 When Technology Meets Humanity Flashcards
What are the advantages of technology?
Convenience
Pleasure
Happiness
Communication
What are the disadvantages of technology?
Job loss and human displacement
World destruction weapons
Increased loneliness
Comepetency
What are some emerging technological ethical dilemmas?
- Real-time Satellite Surveillance Imagery
- Colonizing mars
- Wearable technolgy
- Hacktivism and soft war by the state
- Enhances pathogens
- Non lethal weapons
- Robot swarms
- Artificial lifeforms
- Socio-ecological systems
- Brain-to-brain interfaces
What article talks about universal declaration of human rights?
Article 27
What article is on UNESCO recommendation on the status of scientific researchers.
Article 4
What year was UNESCO’s recommendation on the status of scientific researchers?
1974
What year was UNESCO declaration on the use of scientific knowledge?
1999
Which article can you find UNESCO declaration on the use of scientific knowledge?
Article 33
What are the functions of human rights?
- As golden mean
- Protection for weak
- Gaps the poor and rich countries
- Human flourishing through ST
He is an American computer engineer and venture capitalist.
Bill JOy
He wrote “Why the Future Does not Need Us.”
Bill Joy
What is DDT?
Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane
This states that if it can go wrong, it will/
Murphy’s law
This is an introduction to combat malarial mosquitoes. It gave rise to multi-drug resistant malarial parasites.
DDT
They said that “Bill Joy failed to consider social factors and only deliberately focused on one part of the picture.”
John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid
This means technophobic
Neo-Luddite
This means technology as brighter future.
Technophiles
He is from Paris Institute of Political Studies.
S. Romi Mukherjee
These are moral principles or norms that describe certain standards of human behavior and are protected by municipal or international laws.
Human rights
These pertain to the virtues that we practice in order to live the good life.
Golden Mean
These pertain to services and natural services.
Tangible
This pertains to well-being and human dignity.
Intangible
What is HRBA?
Human Rights Based Approach
Who proposed HRBA?
S. Romi Mukherjee
This article reinforces the notion that the pursuit of knowledge are not only essential to humans but so is the flourishing and protection of human rights.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 27)
This article aims to promote ethical and fair treatment of scientists and researchers to recognize their role in advancing human knowledge and scientific progress.
UNESCO Recommendation on the Status of Scientific Researchers (Article 4) - 1974
This is article is on the move towards a sustainable development strategy through the integration of economic, social, cultural, and environmental dimensions.
UNESCO Declaration on the Use of Scientific Knowledge (Article 33) - 1999
He is a computer scientist and co-founder of sun Microsystems.
Bill Joy
He expressed his concerns about the dangers posed by emerging technology in the field of genetics, nanotech, and robotics.
Bill Joy
This is a hypothetical scenario where self-replicating nanobots could consume all the matter on the earth. It could also be the creation of a super intelligent machine that may not have humanity’s best interest.
Gray Goo
This refers to someone who rejects new technologies.
Neo-luddite or technophobic
These two are both are respected scholars in the field of technology and information. Their criticisms encouraged a more measured and thoughtful approach to technology and its implications.
John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid
