WHY THE FUTURE DOES NOT NEED US?

LEARNING OUTCOMES

* At the end of the lesson, the students are expected to

* Rationalize the human human experience in order to strengthen and enlighten the functioning in
society the human

* Identify and examine the future of humanity and the future of technology

Technology interests enable people to widen the scope of human experiences. The future of technology
will depend on how people use it, as these are qualifying experiences that they can also share with other
people, thereby integrating technology into their daily lives.

HUMAN AND SOCIETY

Majority of the time, the human species coexists in basic hunter-gatherer societies. A "modern"
industrial culture has just emerged in the last 200 years, while agrarian societies did not make significant
technological advances until fewer than 5,000 years ago. The industrial civilization of today is quickly
evolving into a global information

Technology and Humanity: A Positive Side

According to an old proverb, "Necessity is the mother of invention,"meaning that since each invention is
invaded by the need for improvement and transformation, necessities often lead to inventions.

The Positive View

1. Material Standard of Loong.

- One is the unmatched rue in the material level of living, the typical citizen now enjoys a better
standard of living than kings had hundreds of years ago.

2. Untimely Death is reduced.

- The prevalence of societal ills like poverty, inequality, ignorance, and oppression has declined. Moore
and Simon's (2000) article "It's getting better all the time."

3. Improvement in Evolutionary View

- The evolutionary perspective on development, developed in the 18th century during the
Enlightenment, views society as a tool for human improvement, based on "social engineering" and is the
foundation of modern institutions like welfare states and development aid organizations.

4. Reduced & Suffering

The advancements in technology include faster development times, lower production costs, and easier
design and development processes for various materials and devices.

Innovations stimulate economic growth by efficiently applying technology, reducing material production
costs, and advancing the country by reducing costs and enhancing overall economic development.

The Negative View

Potentials and issues frequently coexist; nues can be turned into opportunities. The universe's elements
have two sides, a creative side and a destructive side.

Technology has become an increasingly important partofsociety.

We have become so damaged by technology that we are unable to even fund time to spend with close
friends. Being in contact via chat and online messaging while living in the same city is astonishing.
People do it because they believe it to be faster and more efficient, but they forget that online chatting
cannot replace in-person communication.

1. Contemporary Social Problems.

-Worrying over current societal issues is frequently the driving force behind the statement "life is getting
worse." Deviant behavior including crime, drug use, and school rejection, is one of these issues.

2. Society Deifling away from Human Nature.

- Because society has changed significantly while human nature has not, this perspective of decline in
frequently included in the notion that society is moving away from human nature.

In his article, "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us" from Wired Magazine Issue 8.04, published in April
2000, Bill Joy claimed that:

"Robotics is everything when it comes to the machines that will perform our tads for us and provide us
immortality by downloading ourselves into them."

But Joy doesn't think that once the downloads are complete, we will still be human or our children will
be robots. New crops, plants, and eventually new species many of which will be human species will be
produced by genetic engineering. Joy worries a lot about genetics, but her main concern is how simple it
would be to make a mistake and start a new epidemic.

Additionally, the "gray goo" issue with nanotechnology is out of control self-replicating nanobots.

Therefore, GNR's capacity for harmful self-replication is what should cause is to pause. He believes that
humans are in danger of annihilating ourselves and that this may be a trait shared by all animals that
develop to our level of strength and knowledge. When we goof up, he believes it is arrogant to create a
robot to take our place as a replacement species.

How far nuclear weapons have come. After the weapons were constructed, a kind of momentum took
hold, and over the next decades, a steady buildup brought us dangerously close to a nuclear meltdown.
believes that [I'm reading between the fines) there is a less than 50% chance of surviving the next
century. Additionally. strategies like space travel, nuclear defense shields, and nanotechnology shields
won't be effective because each new defensive system merely increases the offensive power. Defense
shield side effects could be just as dangerous as the things they were meant to shield. Relinquishment is
the only true substitution I can think of

Few people wars us not to unlock this Pandora's box or allow technology to rule our lives. Particularly
given that we lack both a plan and control. We still have time to change our direction, but it will soon be
too late. We do have a plan in place to put a top to the arms esce. We started signing treaties, bamming
weaрon, and reducing their use once we realized we were all in danger. Bars agaiом may be confirmed,
Nanotechnology. Robotic) may grant immortality and happiness, should we put our species' of our own
survival at risk to achieve these ends! Liberty and equality are admirable ideals, just like eternal life, but
another otopian worldview is founded on fraternity (Altruism). I look to the Dalai Lama, who promotes
love. compassion, and universal responsibility, for an ethical foundation for the future The pursuit of
knowledge and financial advancement will not eventually make ws happy.

Joy keeps arguing his case vehemently and feels morally obligated to put a halt to this (software
development) activity. He is not angry, but he is at least a little bit upset by everything. From now on,
progress will be a little bit sour tasting for me.

Relevance of the Issue

This debate has significant practical ramifications, making it more than merely a theoretical issue to be
debated in academic halls. We should work to halt or at least slow down modernization if it makes
society less livable. In this utuation, conservatives have a good case and can persuade people to support
restorative policies. However, if modernization serves to raise living standards, we should comply, which
would more closely align with the liberal political platform. In the latter scenario, there is also room for
greater modernization, which would be acceptable for missionary operations like "development aid" for
"under-developed" countries and would promote various reformer impulses in industrialized states.

Societal Collapse

Many theories have been put out to explain why society collapsed. This includes the works Decline and
Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbons, Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph Tainter, and the more
recent Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond.
Tainter (1990) points out that communities must safeguard certain resources in order to maintain their
people, including food, energy, and natural resources. Societies may become more complicated as a
result of their efforts to address the supply issue by establishing bureaucracies, infrastructure, social
class distinctions, military activities, and colonies. The marginal returns on these investments in social
complexity can occasionally turn out to be negative, and societies that fail to scale down when their
organizational overheads become out of hand eventually collapse.

fail to scale down when their organizational overheads become out of hand eventually collapse

According to Chamond, environmental factors have played a significant role in many previous caset of
societal collapse. These environmental factors include deforesastion and habitat destruction, soil issues,
water management issues, overfishing and hunting, the effects of introduced species, human population
growth, and increased per-capita human impact.

Different classes of scenarios involving societal collapse:

1. Local Societal Collapse.

- Individual societies may fall apart, but if other highly developed societies survive and continue where
the failed ones left off, it is unlikely that this would have a decisive impact on the fate of humanity. This
type of collapse has always occurred in history.

2. Global Societal Collapse. We speculate that emerging threats (such a nuclear holocaust or drastically
altering the global environment) or the movement towards globalization have increased the
interdependence of many regions of the world and exposed human civilization as a whole to risk.

What happens to this expanding society if a new, technologically advanced civilization is finally rebuilt?
Once more, there are two options. The new society might avoid collapsing, and in the two parts that
follow, we'll look at what might occur to a resilient global civilization. If not, the cycle is repeated, and
the new civilization collapses once more. We come to the kind of circumstance that the next parts will
explore if a sustainable civilization develops. We then have the kind of scenario that was covered in the
preceding section if one of the collapses results in extinction instead. The final scenario is a cycle of
perpetually repeated regenerations and collapse.

Different Conclusions for Different Situations Although there are numerous plausible explanations for
why a highly developed society can collapse, only a small subset of these answers is likely to te able to
explain an endless cycle of collapse and regeneration. A cycle couldn't be dependent on a variable that
might affect some advanced civilizations but not others, or on a variable that an advanced civilization
would have a realistic chance of overcoming. If such a variable were to be blamed, one would anticipate
that the collapse-regeneration pattern would eventually break when the right conditions finally allowed
an advanced civilization to overcome the barriers to sustainability. The suggested cause of collapse
could not possibly be as potent as the reason for the extinction of the human species.

The power of the intellect to reason is what distinguishes humans from other ammals, and this is where
humanity has advanced. The reason in the capacity for analysis, invention, deduction, and formulation.
Humans may strive and invent because of reason, and it is through invention that humanity has evolved
civilization and improved the globe.

Today, we can argue that technology is the culmination of all instrumentally saluable cultural
information.

RELATION OF TECHNOLOGY WITH HUMANITY

When we discuss how technology and humanity interact, it is clear that we must deal with the
interactions of a number of very complicated phenomena, uncluding technology, science, society, and
universal legal systems. As part of its exploration and advancement, humanity has been able to
overcome the limitations of nature thanks to a variety of potent energy sources, including coal,
petroleum, electricity, and others. All of this has facilitated the development of quick forms of
transportation, which has in turn made the world a small, Interconnected community.

The Future of Humanity

How was the 20 century different? The technologies behind nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons
of mass destruction were undoubtedly potent weapons with a high risk. However, developing nuclear
weapons requires, at least temporarily, access to both uncommon - in fact, practically unobtainable -
raw materials and extremely semitive information.

Additionatty, biological and chemical weapons programs tended to call for atensive work The genetic,
nanotechnological, and robotic (GNR) technologies of the

The book Plateau describes two potential futures for humanity: one is stagnation at for very near) the
present status quo, and the other is a growth followed by a permanent plateau.

STATIC VIEW

The static viewpoint is absurd. It would imply that even in a time of extremely rapid change, we have
only just reached the pinnacle of the human experience. The static viewpoint would likewise entail a
significant reversal of many tendencies.

1. The world's economy will be seven times richer than it is now in 2050 if it grows at the same rate as it
has over the last fifty years.

2. In 2050, the world's population is expected to reach over 9 billion, which would result in a sharp
increase in average wealth.

3. The world would also be nearly 50 times richer by 2100 than it is today. The world's current wealth
may then be equal to that of a single, small nation.

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4. Virtual reality environments will make up a larger portion of our experiences. The capabilities of
recording, surveillance, biometric, and data mining technologies will advance, making it gradually
possible maintain tabs on people's whereabouts, unteractiom with others, activities. and internal
processes.

5. Potential growth that would allow us to directly alter our biology through technology means is among
the most significant. Interventions may have a more profound impact on us than changes to our beliefs,
habits, culture. or education. Healthy lifespan could be significantly increased if we can learn to manage
the metabolic mechanisms that lead to human senescence A person with a 20-year-old's age-specific
mortality would have a life expectancy of almost 1,000 years. maintain tabs on people's whereabouts,
unteractiom with others, activities. and internal processes.

5. Potential growth that would allow us to directly alter our biology through technology means is among
the most significant. Interventions may have a more profound impact on us than changes to our beliefs,
habits, culture. or education.

6. Drugs and other neuro technologies may eventually make it possible for users to change their
personalities, emotional characteristics, cerebral energies, love attachments, and moral character to
become the kind of people they want to be.

7. Nanotechnology has had a wide range of effects on computers, medicine, and industry.

8. Machine intelligence is additional potential revolutionary technology.

9. Prediction markets may enhance human groups capacity to predict future changes, and other
institutional or technology advancements may pave the way for novel human organizational strategies
that result in more successful institutional innovations.

It is difficult to forecast how these and other technology advances will affect how people live their lives,
but it seems safe to assume that they will have these kinds of effects. The development of some of these
technologies will be challenging.

Prediction of Artificial Intelligence Good (1965).

In The Coming Technological Singularity, Vernor Vinge developed the concept and modified Good's
forecast on timing "Within thirty years, technology will allow us to develop superhuman intelligence.
The human age will come to an end shortly after that

Technology and Its Usability

New technologies emerge every year, and it is up to the users to grasp them and learn how to apply
them to their daily life.

Technology has revolutionized how we communicate, travel, and socialize. It also makes learning easier,
has altered how we live, and has created a wide range of opportunities.
Technology is good and has the potential to transform our society, but how we utilize it will determine
whether it is advantageous or not. Future technologies must be designed to be user-friendly and to
benefit people and society.

1. Computer technology future

2. Next generation wearable computer in HOLO

3. Watch technology upcoming

4. The forthcoming of bome technology

5. The coming of classroom technology

HOW TECHNOLOGY IS TRANSFORMING THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE

The science fiction genre has imagined all kinds of ground-breaking technologies, but reality is home to
just as many enthralling examples of advanced technology that is transforming people's/humans'
everyday lives and may have an impact on them in the future.

1. Hearing Colors/ Hearing at Arm's Length

2. Eye-Camera/Smart Contact Lens Eyeball Jewelry Implant

3. Human Compass

4. Password Pill

5. Electronic Throat Tattoo

6. Interaction with Devices:

7. Robot Arm/Controlling Wheelchair

8. Bionic Limp

9. Artificial Vision System

10. Terminator Arm/ Titan Arm

11. USB finger/ Mind Uploading

The New Pandora's Box - also known as "TECHNOLOGY"

We don't seem to have paid much attention, yet the new Pandora's boxes of genetics, nanotechnology,
and robotics are practically all open. Ideas can't be put back in a box, they don't need to be mined and
processed like uranium or plutonium, and they can be freely duplicated. Once they leave, they leave
forever. To avoid losing the possibility to do the right thing at all, we must behave more strategically in
this situation. We do not ride on the train; it rides upon at, must combat in this day and the question is,
which is to be master? Will we survive our technologies According to Nick Bostrom, (2004), there are
four future scenarios for the Humanity and Technology:

1. Spreading the timeframe of consideration may have the least impact onthe extinction sernario.
Humanity will not come back if it disappears. The overall likelihood of extinction rises monotonically
with time. Some claim that the current or upcoming centuries will be a crucial moment for humanity, if
we make it through this time, then human civilization's life expectancy may grow quite high.

2. The longer the duration, the less plausible the recurrent collapse scenario is. for reasons that are clear
from the graphic. The scenario presupposes that technological civilization will sluggishly advance within
a relatively small range. The pattern might then transform into one of the other patterns we have
thought about.

3. The degree of civilization is predicted to be constrained to a restricted range in the case of plateau
scenarios, and the longer the timescale under consideration, the less likely it is that the level of
technological advancement will stay within this range. The plateau pattern, however, might be seen to
have a little more tenacity than the recurring collapse pattern. The plateau pattern is reliable in
situations of complete motionlessness, such as those brought on by the emergence of an extremely
stable political order supported by significantly increased surveillance and population control
capabilities maintain its status quo. Such stability is incompatible with the scenario of repeated collapse

4. Like extinction, the overall likelihood of post humanity rises monotonically with time. In contrast to
extinction scenarios, there is a chance that a society that has reached a post-human state will eventually
revert to a human one.

POSTHUMANITY THEORY

A definition of the so-called "post human condition" is long overdue. It refers to a condition that has at
least one of the following characteristics:

1. Population bigger than 1 trillion persons

2. Larger than 500 years life expectancy

3. Large fraction of the population has cognitive capacities more than two standard deviations over the
present human maximum.

4. Near-complete control over the sensory input, for the majority of people for most of the time

5. Human psychological suffer become rare occurrence

6. Any change of magnitude or profundity comparable to that of one of the above

Whether the transition was brought on by biological augmentation or other reasons, post humanity is a
hypothesis or concept that is of an advanced level of technical or economic progress that would require
a drastic change in the human state.
The Longer Term

The four families of scenarios we have considered extinction, repeated collapse, plateau, and post
humanity-could be managed by changing the time frame during which they are thought to take place.
The scenarios may already have had ehtime to develop over the course of a few hundred or a ferw
thousand years. Yet wuch a period pales in comparison to the age of the costios Therefore, let's stop
back and think about the long-term possibilities for humanity.

The first thing they note is that the likelihood that technological civilization will remain inside the region
we have consistently referred to as "the human condition" decreases with increasing time scale. The
examples given show where the "human condition" falls on the scale of organismic and technological
progres. It will become much clearer what the "lunnan condition" really means.

Message to Humanity

It goes without saying that, like all other aspects of growth, technical advancement is like a two-edged
sword that, on one side, has the potential to kill and, on the other, has the potential to protect.
However, it is up to each individual to decide how to use it effectively and in the right context.

When technology is used for good, it spurs growth in related and unrelated fields, but when it is
misused, it can have disastrous effects on people or the entire planet. Technology has changed and will
continue to transform the moral foundation of society. It is up to the current generation to heed this
warning and prevent social travesties of this magnitude from ever happening again. As we enter the
next millennium, technological development will continue to expand quickly, making sure that these
developments are beneficial to all of humanity is crucial.