MODULE 8 (ME)

Question 1

commonly known as Bill Joy, an American computer scientist.

Answer 1

William Nelson Joy

Question 2

Positive View

Answer 2

-Material Standard of Living
-Untimely Death is reduced
-Improvement in Evolutionary View
-Reduced Suffering

Question 3

Negative View

Answer 3

-Contemporary Social Problems
-Society Drifting away from Human Nature

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Tainter (1990), Societal Collapsed

Question 5

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.

Answer 5

Local Societal Collapse

Question 6

We suppose new kinds of threats or the trend towards globalization increased the interdependence of different parts of the world and created a vulnerability to human civilization as a whole.

Answer 6

Global societal collapse

Question 7

There are so many conceivable explanations why an advanced society might collapse, only a subgroup of these explanations could probably account for an unending pattern of collapse and regeneration.

Answer 7

Different conclusion for different situation

Question 8

When we talk about the relationships between technology and humanity, it is obvious that we have to deal with the interrelations between a very complex phenomena: technology, science society, and systems of rights of a universal nature.

Answer 8

Relation of technology with humanity

Question 9

Nuclear, Biological, Radiological and Chemical were powerful weapons had an enormous risk.

Answer 9

WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION (WMD)

Question 10

They are so powerful that they can spawn whole new classes of accidents and abuses.

Answer 10

GENETICS, NANOTECHNOLOGY, ROBOTICS (GNR)

Question 11

Within 30 years we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence, shortly after the human era will be end

Answer 11

Vernon Vinge

Question 12

How is technology transforming human experience

Answer 12

By helping people to achieve things that would have only been previously dreamt in fiction

Question 13

3 inventions mentioned in the ppt

Answer 13

Smart Contact Lens
Bionic limb
Robot Arm

Question 14

Also known as technology

Answer 14

New Pandora’s Box

Question 15

According to him, there are four future scenarios for Humanity and Technology.

Answer 15

Nick Bostrom (2004)

Question 16

4 future scenarios of humanity and technology

Answer 16

-Extinction
-Recurrent Romance
-Plateau
-Cumulative Probability of Post-Humanities

Question 17

It is the theory/ concept that is of an advantage 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 17

Post Humanity Theory

Question 18

Can the 4 future scenarios be controlled? How?

Answer 18

Yes, by varying the period over hypothesized occur.

Question 19

If humanity goes extinct, it stays extinct.

Answer 19

Extinction scenario

Question 20

The scenario assumes that technological civilization will hesitate continuously within a
relatively narrow band of progress.

Answer 20

The recurrent romance scenario

Question 21

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 technology growth will remain within this range

Answer 21

The Plateau Scenario