MRR2 - Why the Future Doesn't Need Us

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 Metacognitive Reading Report # 2

Student: Sañosa, Carl Angelo C. Date: Oct. 6, 2019

Science, Technology and Society

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Why the Future Doesn't Need Us

Topic/Lesson

1. Difficult Concepts (What concepts did you find difficult to understand?)

i. The New Luddite Challenge
ii. Giving robots the authority to rule over humans
iii. Theories engaging human extinction

2. Insights (What new insights or learnings did you gain in discussion/

activity?)

i. Before reading the article/understanding the lesson, I thought – that the

possibility of human’s extinctions are just theories and can only be seen
through movies.
ii. However, reading the article/understanding the lesson, I now think/realize
– that it is somewhat possible because of us. The fact that we want to
develop ourselves, live as long as we want, to do all the things that we
desire through technology, makes that theory of human extinction, exist.
Because when our world becomes technology based, like everything that
we do manually, will be gone, the way we live is fully automatic, that’s the
time that humans might go extinct for the reason that only humans are
left of being not merged with technology. Like are systems, will be
programmed. Our actions, feelings, everything.
iii. Before reading the article/understanding the lesson, I thought – that there
is no possibility that robots will take over earth. That they will rule man-
kind.
iv. However, reading the article/understanding the lesson, I now think/realize
– that there is a possibility. Because based on the article, as time goes by,
robots will get more and more intelligent in a sense that humans might
depend on them. Whether it’s their decision on a specific thing or even
their lives. Therefore, the chance of us being ruled by robots exist. But
also based on the article, people can have their private robots to use them
depending on their attitudes. Assumingly, high class of persons for they
are the prioritized ones when it comes to technology. Whether they will
use it against humanity, or they will use it for the humanity.

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 v. The article is titled ‘Why the Future Doesn’t Need us?” Do you agree that
the future won’t indeed need us? Explain your answer.
For me, the future still needs us people from the past. But not in all ways.
They need us to remind them of the happenings from the past. The
cultures, traditions, lifestyles, and all the aspect of living naturally. How
life exists without that much technology in our systems. They need us
because a future will never exist without its past. But to be honest, I can
foresee that the future will be technology-based. That’s why, I can’t say
that I’m a hundred percent ok with us not being needed in the future. For
me, there is still a difference between the digital way of showing and
seeing things to showing things and letting them experience it and have it
for the rest of their lives, and giving things from other sources, not just
technology.

3. Questions (What questions would you want answers for? Or vague areas
you want more explanations about?
i. Is there a way to change the future? A future that there is not that
much technology involved?
ii. How can we prevent the vast developments in science and technology
when it says that it’s for us but it can still harm us?
iii. What will be the future without humans?

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