Republic of the Philippines

POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES

QUEZON CITY BRANCH

Science, Technology and Society

Tuesday, 7:30 - 10:30AM
BSBA-HRM 1-1N

“When Technology and Humanity cross”

“Why does the future not need us?”

Group #1
Leader:
Campos, Abigail

Members:
Abia, Rostom
Boctoy, Angelito
Galeza, Charmaine Gie B.
Cablao, Apple Tricia
Nicolas, Sheryl
Villeges, Jheena Jamaica
Otis, Maricel
Poblete, Jamaica Zeah
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Assigned Tasks

“When Technology and Humanity cross”

Campos – Technology and Humanity

Villeges – Evolution of Technology (TV Sets, Mobile Phones,

Computers and Humanity)

Cablao – Ethical Dilemmas, Robotics and Humanity

Galeza – Roles played by Robotics & Ethical Dilemmas faced by

Robotics

“Why does the future not need us?”

Abia – Introduction

Otis – Genetic Engineering

Poblete &
Boctoy – The Nanotechnology Revolution

Nicolas – Summary and Explanation of Why does the future

Not need US.
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Summary of Content
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“When Technology and Humanity cross”

TECHNOLOGY AND HUMANITY
Reporter: Campos

The word technology is a combination of two Greek words, techne and

logos. Techne means art, craft, or skill. Logos means “to speak of”. Some have
since taken the word logos to imply the practical application of techne, but others
say that is stretching its etymological roots.
Technology can be used in various ways to facilitate business organization.
For example, technology can be used to organize information, it can be used to aid
data transfer and information flow with in an organization, technology can be used
to process, track and organize business records.

Humanity is the entire human race or the characteristics that belong

uniquely to human beings, such as kindness, mercy and sympathy. An example of
humanity is all the people in the world. An example of humanity is treating
someone with kindness.

EVOLUTION OF TECHNOLOGY (TV SETS, MOBILE PHONES,

COMPUTERS AND HUMANITY)
Reporter: Villeges

Television
According to Kantar Media in the Philippines, 92% of urban homes own at
least one tv set. Households with tv sets reached 15.134M (Noda,2012)

What would these imply?

1. Ultimate medium advertisement placement
2. Almost all use this particular type of device
3. Television plays a great role in the lives of people
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Mobile Phones
Filipinos love to use their phones anytime, anywhere. More than half of the
Filipino population own at least one mobile phone regardless of type. 2010,
Synovate declared 67% product ownership in the country. Mobile phones are
considered a must-have among young Filipinos (ABS-CBN). 1 out of 3 Filipinos
cannot live without phones . (Ipsos Media Atlas Philippines Nationwide Urban
2011-2012 survey)

MARTIN COOPER
American engineer Martin Cooper (born 1928) is often dubbed the father of
the mobile phone. In November of 1972, he and a team of associates at the
Motorola Company began working on a prototype of the Dyna-Tac phone, and five
months later Cooper stood on a Manhattan street and placed the world's first call
from a mobile phone. Cooper believed that car phones were impractical from a
deeper standpoint, however. “Our basic dream was that people didn't want to talk
to cars,” he told Iwatani, the Seattle Times writer. “They didn't want to talk to a
desk or a wall (where phones were generally placed). They want to talk to other
people.”
MOTOROLA DynaTAC 8000x in 1983
• Mobile phone used by Cooper • Weight 1.1 kg
• Measured 228.6 x 127 x 44.4 mm • 30 min. talk time
• 10 hours to charge

Computers
Not possible for all Filipino families to own at least one computer or laptop.
Most profits gained by computer and laptop manufacturers comes from offices,
businesses or schools. Growing of internet users in the Ph. problems regarding the
Internet providers.

Facts about Filipinos and their Use of Gadgets and the Internet
• 2-3 hours on mobile and 5.2 hours on desktop daily
• Philippines has one of the highest digital population in the world
• 47M active FB accounts
• Fastest growing application market in SEA
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ETHICAL DILEMMAS, ROBOTICS AND HUMANITY

Reporter: Cablao

Ethical Dilemmas is a decision-making problem between two possible

moral imperatives, neither of which is unambiguously acceptable or preferable.
Ethics of Responsibility is an ability to recognize, interpret and act upon
multiple principles and values according to the standards within a given field and
or context.
“What ought to be allowed?”

Robotics and Humanity

Robot is an actuated mechanism programmable in two or more axes with a
degree of autonomy, moving within its environment, to perform intended tasks.
Autonomy is an ability to perform intended tasks bad on current state and
sensing without human intervention.
Humanity is a human race, which includes everyone on Earth. It’s also a
word for the qualities that makes us human such as ability to love and have
compassion, be creative and not to be a robot or alien.

 Service Robot
- A robot that performs useful tasks for human or equipment excluding
industrial application. A robot may be classified to its intended
application as an industrial robot or a service robot.

o Personal Service Robot

Service robot for personal use. It is used for non-commercial
task usually by laypersons. Examples: Domestic Servant Robot,
Automated wheelchair, personal mobility assist robot, pet exercising
robot.

o Professional Service Robot

It is used for commercial task, usually operated by a proper trained
operator. Examples: Cleaning robot for public places, delivery robot,
firefighting robot, rehabilitation robot and surgery robot.
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ROLES AND ETHICAL DILEMMAS OF ROBOTICS

Reporter: Galeza

Roles played by Robotics

 Ease the work of mankind
 Make life more efficient and less stressful
 Perform complicated activities
 Pleasure, entertainment in parks or exhibits
 Toys, child-friendly
 Used in movies

George Devol
-An American inventor known for developing “Unimate”, the first handling
robot employed in industrial production work.

Isaac Asimov
He was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston
University.
Isaac Asimov’s
THREE LAWS OF ROBOTICS:

First Law: A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a
human being to come to harm.

Second Law: A robot must obey orders given it by human beings, except where
such orders would conflict with the First Law.

Third Law: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does
not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Ethical Dilemmas faced by Robotics

1. Safety
2. Emotional Component
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“Why does the future not need us?”

INTRODUCTION
Reporter: Abia

In the year 2000, Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, wrote a

provocative article for Wired magazine entitled “Why the Future Doesn’t Need
Us,” arguing that human beings face the realistic possibility of extinction because
of competition from intelligent robots, which are made possible by technological
advancements in artificial intelligence.
Furthermore, 21st-century technologies – genetic engineering,
nanotechnology and robotics – have the potential to significantly extend the
average human lifespan, but they are so powerful that in them also lurk grave
dangers. Joy locates these dangers in the potential (or actual) ability of robots,
engineered organisms and nanobots to self-replicate.
•Bill Joy (1954 – ) is an American computer scientist who co-founded Sun
Microsystems in 1982 and served as chief scientist at the company until 2003. His
now famous Wired magazine essay, “Why the future doesn’t need us,” (2000) sets
forth his deep concerns over the development of modern technologies.

First let us postulate that the computer scientists succeed in developing intelligent
machines that can do all things better than human beings can do them. In that case
presumably all work will be done by vast, highly organized systems of machines
and no human effort will be necessary.

Either of two cases might occur. The machines might be permitted to make all of
their own decisions without human oversight, or else human control over the
machines might be retained.

On the other hand it is possible that human control over the machines may
be retained. In that case the average man may have control over certain private
machines of his own, such as his car or his personal computer, but control over
large systems of machines will be in the hands of a tiny elite—just as it is today,
but with two differences.
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GENETIC ENGINEERING
Reporter: Otis

Genetic engineering is a term that was first introduced into our language in
the 1970s to describe the emerging field of recombinant DNA technology and
some of the things that were going on.

Genetic engineering, broadly defined, means that you are taking pieces of
DNA and combining them with other pieces of DNA. This doesn't really happen
in nature, but is something that you engineer in your own laboratory and test tubes.
And then taking what you have engineered and propagating that in any number of
different organisms that range from bacterial cells to yeast cells, to plants and
animals. So while there isn't a precise definition of genetic engineering, I think it
more defines an entire field of recombinant DNA technology, genomics, and
genetics in the 2000s.

Genetic engineering promises to revolutionize agriculture by increasing

crop yields while reducing the use of pesticides; to create tens of thousands of
novel species of bacteria, plants, viruses, and animals; to replace reproduction, or
supplement it, with cloning; to create cures for many diseases, increasing our life
span and our quality of life; and much, much more. We now know with certainty
that these profound changes in the biological sciences are imminent and will
challenge all our notions of what life is. Technologies such as human cloning have
in particular raised our awareness of the profound ethical and moral issues we face.
If, for example, we were to reengineer ourselves into several separate and unequal
species using the power of genetic engineering, then we would threaten the notion
of equality that is the very cornerstone of our democracy

We were to reengineer ourselves into several separate and unequal species

using the power of genetic engineering, then we would threaten the notion of
equality that is the very cornerstone of our democracy.
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THE NANOTECHNOLOGY REVOLUTION

Reporter: Poblete & Boctoy

What is Nanotechnology?
Nanotechnology is science, engineering, and technology conducted at the
nanoscale, which is about 1 to 100 nanometers. Nanoscience and nanotechnology
are the study and application of extremely small things and can be used across all
the other science fields, such as chemistry, biology, physics, materials science, and
engineering.

Physicist Richard Feynman - the father of nanotechnology.

The Nanotechnology Revolution, which Drexler cowrote, imagines some of

the changes that might take place in a world where we had molecular-level
"assemblers." Assemblers could make possible incredibly low-cost solar power,
cures for cancer and the common cold by augmentation of the human immune
system, essentially complete cleanup of the environment, incredibly inexpensive
pocket supercomputers—in fact, any product would be manufacturable by
assemblers at a cost no greater than that of wood—spaceflight more accessible
than transoceanic travel today, and restoration of extinct species.

Nanotechnologies can become "engines of destruction.”

SUMMARY AND EXPLANATION WHY DOES THE FUTURE

NOT NEED US
Reporter: Nicolas

We knew that technologies like genetic engineering and nanotechnology

were giving us the power to remake the world. But a realistic and imminent
scenario for intelligent robots is surprising.
It's easy to get jaded about such breakthroughs. We hear in the news almost
every day of some kind of technological or scientific advance. Yet this was no
ordinary prediction. There will be time, humans will gain immortality if they
become one with robotic technology, which surely there would be the probability
of a bad come along the path, a danger.
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First, there are computer scientists succeed in developing intelligent

machines that more than the human beings can do. In that case, presumably all
work will be done by vast, highly organized systems of machines and no human
error will be necessary. Either of two cases might occur. The machines might be
permitted to make all of these decisions without human oversight, or else human
control over the machines might be retained.
If the machines are permitted to make all their own decisions, we can’t make
any conjectures as to results, because it is impossible to guess how such machine
might behave. We only point out that the fate of the human race would be at the
mercy of the machines. It might be argued that human race would never be foolish
enough to hand over all power to the machines. But we are suggesting neither that
the human race world voluntary turn over power the machines nor the machines
would willfully seize power. What we do suggest is, is that the human race might
easily permit itself to drift into a position of such dependence on the machine’s
decision.
As society and the problems that face it becomes more and more complex
and machines becomes more and more intelligent, people will let machines make
more decisions for them, simply because machine-made decisions will bring better
results at which the decisions necessary to keep systems running will be so
complex, that human beings will be in capable of making them intelligently.
At that stage, the machines will be an effective control. People won’t be able
to just turn the machines off, because they will be so dependent on them that
turning them off would amount to suicide.