MODULE 7

Question 1

article 27

Answer 1

universal declaration of human rights

Question 2

article 4

Answer 2

UNESCO scientific researchers 1974

Question 3

article 33

Answer 3

UNESCO scientific knowledge 1999

Question 4

• Participate in and benefit from scientific advances
• Be protected from scientific misuses
• Examined through a cultural rights perpective

Answer 4

article 27

Question 5

• All advances in scientific and technological knowledge should solely be geared towards the welfare of global citizens
• Calls upon members of the states to develop necessary protocol and policies
• Countries are asked to show that ST are integrated into policies that aim to ensure a more humane and just society

Answer 5

article 4

Question 6

• ST and its applications are indispensable for development
• All levels of government and the private sector should provide enhanced support for building up an adequate and evenly distributed scientific and technological capacity through appropriate education
• Research programs are indispensable foundation for economic, social, cultural and environmentally sound development
• Encompasses issues on pollution-free production, efficient resource use, biodiversity protection, and brain drains

Answer 6

article 33

Question 7

functions of human rights

Answer 7

1. function as the “golden mean.”
2. Protects the weak, poor and the vulnerable from the excesses and deficiencies of ST.
3. Gaps of poor and rich countries
   *Tangible (services and natural services)
   *Intangible (well-being and human dignity)
4. Human rights –> Virtues (moral & ethical) –> bridging gaps –> human flourishing/eudaimonia through ST

Question 8

• Author, “Why the Future Does Not Need Us”
• 21st technologies Genetics, Nanotechnology, Robotics (GNR)
• powerful
• accidents, threats, abuses

Answer 8

bill joy

Question 9

Potential Threats of GNR

Answer 9

1. Self-replicating
2. Can get out of control
3. If machines are given the capacity to decide on their own, it will be impossible to predict how they might behave in the future.
4. Fate of human race at the mercy of machines!
5. Computers will become more intelligent than humans.
6. Dystopian vision-dehumanized, fearful lives

Question 10

introduction to combat malarial mosquitoes only gave rise to multi drug resistant malarial parasites

Answer 10

DDT
Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane

Question 11

Critics of Bill Joy

Answer 11

john seely brown
paul duguid

“Bill Joy failed to consider social factors and only deliberately focused on one part of the picture.”

Question 12

technophobic

Answer 12

neo-Luddite