MODULE 8 (ME) Flashcards
commonly known as Bill Joy, an American computer scientist.
William Nelson Joy
Positive View
-Material Standard of Living
-Untimely Death is reduced
-Improvement in Evolutionary View
-Reduced Suffering
Negative View
-Contemporary Social Problems
-Society Drifting away from Human Nature
notes that societies need to protect certain resources such as food, energy, and natural resources in order to sustain their populations.
Tainter (1990), Societal Collapsed
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.
Local Societal Collapse
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.
Global societal collapse
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.
Different conclusion for different situation
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.
Relation of technology with humanity
Nuclear, Biological, Radiological and Chemical were powerful weapons had an enormous risk.
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION (WMD)
They are so powerful that they can spawn whole new classes of accidents and abuses.
GENETICS, NANOTECHNOLOGY, ROBOTICS (GNR)
Within 30 years we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence, shortly after the human era will be end
Vernon Vinge
How is technology transforming human experience
By helping people to achieve things that would have only been previously dreamt in fiction
3 inventions mentioned in the ppt
Smart Contact Lens
Bionic limb
Robot Arm
Also known as technology
New Pandora’s Box
According to him, there are four future scenarios for Humanity and Technology.
Nick Bostrom (2004)
4 future scenarios of humanity and technology
-Extinction
-Recurrent Romance
-Plateau
-Cumulative Probability of Post-Humanities
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.
Post Humanity Theory
Can the 4 future scenarios be controlled? How?
Yes, by varying the period over hypothesized occur.
If humanity goes extinct, it stays extinct.
Extinction scenario
The scenario assumes that technological civilization will hesitate continuously within a
relatively narrow band of progress.
The recurrent romance scenario
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
The Plateau Scenario
