MT Topic 5: Why the Future does Not Need Us Flashcards

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is an American computer scientist who co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 and served as chief scientist at the company until 2003

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BILL JOY

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essay that sets forth his deep concerns over the development of modern technologies

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Why the future doesn’t need us (2000)

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Are becoming to be very powerful that they can potentially bring about new classes of accidents, threats, and abuses

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GENETICS, NANOTECHNOLOGY AND ROBOTICS (GNR)

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Inherently more dangerous than 20th-century technologiesnuclear, biological, and chemical weapons (NBC)-which are expensive to build and require rare raw materials

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GENETICS, NANOTECHNOLOGY AND ROBOTICS (GNR)

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GNR technology requires only knowledge to create, the fear of such information falling into terrorist hands is also strong

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SELF-REPLICATION

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a disaster where a particular group of people is selectively eradicated due to genetic manipulation

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White Plague

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could be engineered to target and eradicate a select group of people; therefore, creating potentially disastrous societal collapses

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nanotechnologies

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The rate and direction of technological innovation over time will lead to a world where humans are unnecessary, and machines will be able to do without us

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OVERDEPENDENCE TO MACHINES

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Instead of interacting with them in the way we historically have, we will cross a threshold where we unwittingly relinquish the responsibility of making important decisions that we as a society need to make

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POSSIBILITY OF AUTONOMOUS DECISION MAKING

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Computers will eventually become more intelligent than humans

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ROBOT REBELLIONS

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someone who rejects new technologies and technophobic

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NEO-LUDDITE

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Who is the author of A Response to Bill Joy and the Doom-and-Gloom Techno futurist

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John Seely Brown/ Paul Duguid (2001)

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They will do our thinking for us

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POSSIBILITY OF AUTONOMOUS DECISION MAKING

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Joy’s worries focus on the transforming technologies of the ________

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21st Century

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encourages technology regulation and raises several reasons he believes it is necessary

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Bill Joy

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