HUMANITY &

TECHNOLOGY
 LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1. Enumerate various technological advancements in
society;
2. Discuss the development of science and technology in the
Philippines;
3. Discuss the effects of the interplay between technology
and humanity through the dilemma(s) they face;
4. Identify William Nelson Joy’s arguments as to why the
future does not need us; and
WHEN TECHNOLOGY AND
HUMANITY CROSS

ROBOTIC HUMANI
S TY
The worry begins when we
question ourselves that what
if we will be replaced by
robots 10 years from now?
Where does humanity stand
in the face of these
TECHNOLOGICAL
ADAVANCEMENTS
•Television
•Computers/Lapto
ps
 92 % of urban homes
and 70% of rural homes
own at least one
television set
TELEVISION
 Television remains to be the
ultimate medium for
advertisement placements.
 German Student, in the late 1800s was
successful in his attempt to send
images through wires with the aid of a
rotating metal disk. This invention was
then called the “electric telescope”
that had 18 lines of resolution
Paul Gottlieb Nipkow

Electric
Telescope
Alan Archibald Campbell-
Swinton Boris Rosing

 Created a new system of television by using

the cathode ray tube in addition to mechanical
scanner system.
 This success story
gave rise to two
types of television
systems, namely,
Cathode ray tube with mechanical and
mechanical scanner
system
electronic
television
 Mobile Phones

Ipsos Media Atlas Philippines Nationwide

Urban 2011-2012 survey regarding the love of
Filipino people in using their mobile phones
resulted that one in every three Filipinos
 • In 1983, Motorola made their
first commercial mobile phone
available to the public. It was
known as the Motorola
DynaTAC 8000X
• The mobile phone used by
Martin Cooper
Cooper weighed 1.1 kilograms
and this device was capable of a
30-minute talk time. However, it
took 10 hours to charge.
 There are now 47 million active Facebook
accounts and other social media accounts
in the Philippines
 The Philippines is the fastest-growing
application market in Southeast Asia
Computer/La
ptop
• Filipinos spend
approximately 5.2 hours
on desktop daily.
 Currently, the
Philippines has one of
  19th century English Mathematics
professor, who designed the
Analytical Engine which was
Charles Babbage used as the basic framework of
the computers even until the
present time.
 in April 1981, the first true
portable computer was released.
It was called the Osborne 1.
 OSBORNE 1
COMPUTER

The Osborne 1 is the first

commercially successful portable
microcomputer.
ETHICAL DILEMMAS FACED BY
TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS
Children becoming
unhealthy with the use of
technology

Are you becoming dependent on technology just

like these kids? What might you get from too
much use of gadgets?
Technology is accessible to anyone. Can
you imagine your brothers/sisters at an
early age were exposed already to the
use of technology?
ETHICAL DILEMMA/S
FACED BY ROBOTICS
 SAFETY- Who should be held
accountable if someone’s safety is
compromised by a robot?
 EMOTIONAL COMPONENT-
What if robots become sentient?
Should they be granted robot rights?
 Why the Future Does Not Need
Us?

Can you imagine a future without the human race?

Do you think that robots and machines can replace
humans?
 American computer scientist and chief
scientist of Sun Microsystems, wrote an
article in April 2000 for Wired
magazine entitled Why the Future
William doesn’t need us?
Nelson Joy He argued that robotics, genetic
engineering, and nanotechnology
pose much greater threats than
technological developments that
have come before.
He particularly cited the ability of nanobots to
self-replicate, which could quickly get out of
control.
He also cautioned humans against
overdependence on machines that if machines
are given the capacity to decide on their own, it
will be impossible to predict how they might
behave in the future. In this case, the fate of the
human race would be at the mercy of machines.
 He voiced out his apprehension about the
rapid increase of computer power which
made him concern about computers will
eventually become more intelligent than
humans, thus ushering societies in
dystopian visions, such as robot rebellions.
His concern was drawn from Theodore
Kaczynski’s book, Unabomber Manifesto,
where Kaczynski described that the
unintended consequences of the design and
use of technology are clearly related to
Murphy’s Law: “Anything that can go
wrong, will go wrong”
THE POWER IS IN US.
LET HUMANITY
PREVAIL OVER