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TECHNOLY VS MAN;

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 ADVANTAGES, DISADVANTAGES,
AND LIMITATIONS OF
TECHNOLOGY
HUMANITY

CHAPTER
OUTLINE POLOCIES AND TECHNOLOGY
ADVANCEMENT

ETHICAL DILEMMAS
 AT THE END OF THIS CHAPTER, THE STUDENT
SHOULD BE ABLE TO

1. Rationalize the advantages, disadvantages, and

limitations of applying the technology to humanity;

LEARNING
OUTCOMES 2. Identify and examine international\local
government policies and human rights that protect the
well-being of the person in the face of new
technologies;

3. Discuss some examples of ethical dilemmas and

conflicts wherein affects humanity in terms of moral
issues and social conflicts.
 ADVANTAGES, DISADVANTAGES, AND LIMITATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY

• Importance of technology to humanity

• To learn the important of technology in our everyday lives, its shows that
technology has profound impact on every aspect of lives. The way we live
communicate, and interact changes though technology in the different
fields of education , medicine, transportation, economy, communications
and politics, this chapter will provide you a clear picture of this impact
and highlight the negative and positive aspects as well as its limitations
 1. Life has become easy through science and
technology.
2. Travelling has become faster than before

3 Communication becomes easier, faster and

Advantages cheaper.
4. Innovations in technology increased the
of standard of living
Technology 5. Using various technology, man become
advanced.
6. The impossible have become possible due to the
progress in science and technology
7. Science and technology made a lot of things
easy to do and comfortable for man.
 Human had misused the technology and used in damaging
purpose.

By the use of technology, man is doing illegal things.

New technology like mobile are generating bad

consequences on children.

Disadvantages By means of modern technology, terrorists use it for

destructive purpose.
of Technology
Many illness are created due to the development of atomic
energy and atom bomb.

Modern technology like nuclear energy have not only

affected man but it also affected plants and other creatures.

Natural beauty is decreasing due to the development of

modern technology.
 Limitations of Technology to Humanity
• According to Booch (2003), Technology has many advantages to humanity.. One cannot live without these advancements but there are certain
limitations as to what humanity can apply it to almost everything they do. Technology is the application of the laws of the theory in science, to
discuss its limitations, one need to answer these questions: Is there a specific limitation in these Technological Advancement? Or can Humanity limit
the use of these technology? These are the factors that define the limits of technology:
• 1. The laws of physics
• 2. The laws of software
• 3. The challenge of algorithms
• 4. The difficulty of distribution
• 5. The problems of design
• 6. The problems of functionality
• 7. The importance of organization
• 8. The impact of economics
• 9. The influence of politic
 HUMANITY
• Humanity All people on earth are considered to be members of the human race. It also looks
for the characteristics that distinguish us as humans, such as our ability to love, empathize, be
creative, and not be a robot or allein.
• Humanity is derived from the Latin word "humanitas," which means "human nature
kindness." Humanity refers to all people, as well as the common emotions people have for one
another, but when people discuss humanity, they are speaking of all people
• Life of humanity has become easy through technology and still progressing through
continuous invention, thus improving the quality of life, and surprising themselves in ways
that they can never imagine before. The two roads to take in humanity are ascension of all
mankind and the other is a complete and total distruction.
 POLICIES AND TECHNOLOGICAL
ADVANCEMENT
Unites States of America
• According to the US, Industrial Competitiveness, and Technological Advancement article in 2012: US industry technological advancement frequently has been
reinforced by congressional initiatives over the past 30 and more. Direct measures that concern budget outlays and the provision of services by government and
indirect measures that include financial incentives and legal changes.
• However many of these efforts have been revisited over the past several congresses. Congressional legislation seems to have preferred indirect strategies such as
tax policies, intellectual property right protection, and antitrust laws to promote technological advancement and government support for basic research over direct
federal funding for private sector technology commercialization initiatives. From: It industrial Competitiveness and Technological Advancement Debate over
Government Policy, page 2, by Wendy H. Schacht, December 3, 2012.
• Increase in economic growth in the contribution to the creation of new goods, new services, new jobs, and new capital is because of the advances in technology.
Technology application can improve productivity and quality of products. The development and use of technology also plays a vital role in determining patterns
of international trade by affecting the comparative advantages of industrial sectors. Since technological progress is not necessarily determined by economic
conditions but can be influenced by advances in science. The organization and management of firms, and government activity can have effects on trade
independent of changes in macroeconomic factors. New technologies also help reward for possible disadvantages in the cost of capital and labor handled by
firms.
• Canada, USA, North, and South America to Europe and Asia-Pacific
• The origins of Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development - OECD is date back to 1960, when 18 European countries, United States, and Canada
merged to create an organization dedicated to economic development.
 Policies and technological advancement
• Today there are 35 countries that are members around the world, from North and South
America to Europe and Asia-Pacific. They include many of the world's most advanced
countries as well the emerging economies like Mexico, Chile, and Turkey, Scientific
developments and technological changes are important driven of current economic
performance. The ability to create, distribute, and explore knowledge has become a big
source of competitive advantage, wealth creation and improvements in the quality of life.
Some features of this transformation are the growing impact of information and
communications technologies (ICT) on the economy and on society, the rapid application
of new scientific advances in new products and processes; a high rate of innovation
across OECD countries; a change to more knowledge-intensive industries and services;
and rising skill requirements
 PHILIPPINES
• According to the Research and Development and Technology in the Philippines
Industrial strategy: The technology market is facing crisis since the economic
environment of the developing countries are opposing technology based institutions.
Thus, the Philippines is taking actions in reforming the technology market by focusing
on 23 industries as priority areas. The Philippines can follow the technological
innovation strategies imposed by Japan and South Korea. With synchronize and
consistent overall industrial strategy, the Philippines can move up to economic reforms.
Government should also focus on expansion of manpower, infrastructure, incentives, and
research institutions to assist the growth of this system.
 The control over nature and the control of other people
by the use of technology is completely another story.
Science and technology as well as research and
development enjoy and must continue to enjoy
autonomy from the state and society. They may draw
inspiration from them, but they are not necessarily
determined and directed by them. However, the
application, use and distribution of technology require
ethical standards and even legal provisions set by the
ETHICAL local and international government

DILEMMAS Technology permeates every aspect of human life and

activity. Inevitably, ethics will also evolve into a
burning, un-ignorable issue for every individual and
organization. At present, we do not have common
global ethics to technological advancement to discuss
different issues, let alone agreement or accepted legal
rights and responsibilities.

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THE LAW OF
PHYSICS
•The Laws of Physics Software. Quantum
effects, and Thermodynamic plays an
important role to when it comes to the law
of physics and technology. Software is a
flexible medium Specifically, the speed of
light is a given, and that fact has practical
implications for throughout systems.
Quantum effects have theoretical and
practical limits t information capacity; you
cannot store more memory than there are
numbers of elementary particles in the
universe. Thermodynamic effects happen
when the containers that will dissipate
heat, that limits the use of technology.

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THE LAW OF
SOFTWARE AND
ALGORITHMS
• Fundamental laws of software: An example of
software limitations is when there is a given
computation, there are times we can't do it, and
there are times we can't afford to do it, and
sometimes we just don't know how to do it (these
categories and their examples come from David
Harel’s delightful book, Computers,
Ltd.).Limitations for algorithms is that there are
also certain classes of problems that are on a
reasonable algorithm: data compression and
photorealistic which renders two such problems
like theoretical limits of compressing an image, a
waveform, video, or some raw stream of bits,
some degree of information loss, hairy
mathematics, some trial and error, lack of perfect
knowledge adds complexity and compromise to
our systems.

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THE DIFFICULTY
OF DISTRIBUTION
•The Difficulty of Distribution Leslie
Lamport an American computer scientist
who observed. "A distributed system is
one in which the failure of a computer you
didn't even know existed can render your
computer unusable." Building distributed
systems is only moderately harder than
building a non-distributed one, but it is
decidedly not, because the reality of the
real world intrudes, Peter Deutsch is an
American politician who noted that there
are eight fallacies of distributed
computing: we'd like to believe that these
are all true, but they are definitely not
 THE PROBLEMS OF DESIGN
•The design of any relevant Web-centric system consists of tens of
thousands of lines of custom code on top of hundreds of thousands of
lines of middleware code on top of several million lines of operating
system code. William Occam, a 14th-century logician and Franciscan friar
stated, "Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily." Isaac Newton an
English phycisist & mathematician projected Occam's work into physics
by noting, "We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such are
both true and sufficient to explain their appearances." Put in contemporary
terms, physicists often observe, "When you have two competing theories
which make exactly the same predictions, the one that is simpler is the
better." Finally, Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist
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 THE PROBLEMS
OF
FUNCTIONALITY
•Brooks writes: To consider the
requirements, functionality, and non-
functionality of a Machine like multi-
engine aircraft, a cellular phone, or an
autonomous robot, has these
limitations such as usability,
survivability, and adaptability has
these unrestrained, potentially
contradictory, external requirements
are too complexity to design.
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 THE IMPORTANCE
OF ORGANIZATIONS
•According to Booch (2003). No one person
can ever understand such a system
completely. It demands that we use a team of
developers, and ideally, as small a team as
possible but software systems that drive an
entire enterprise, one typically must manage
teams of teams, each of which may be
geographically distributed from one another.
More developers mean more complex
communication and hence more difficult
coordination, particularly if the team is
geographically dispersed. With a team of
developers, the key management challenge is
always to maintain a unity and integrity of
design.
 THE IMPACT OF ECONOMIC
•The Impact of Economics Technological Advancement costs money. According to
Barry Boehm (1981). in his classic work on: Software Engineering Economics,
based upon 20 years of empirical evidence, concludes that the performance of a
project can be predicted according to the following equation:
•Performance= (Complexity** Process) Team *Tools* Where:
Performance means effort or time Complexity means volume of human-generated
code Process means maturity of process and notation Team means skill set,
experience, and motivation Tools means software tools automation
• From this equation, we can observe that the complexity of a system can either be
amplified by a bad process or dampened by a good process and that the nature of a
team and its tools are equal contributors to the performance of a project.

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 THE INFLUENCE OF
POLITICS

Investment in software development is the

key to success, the political organization
can influence its progress and its
limitations. Great things could have
provided if the influence in politics are on
a positive side.

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“ The most important question of the century is What will our ethics be! Some of the vexing worries
about the coming age of mechanically enhanced thought is Are there "win-win" ways to gain the
advantages without sacrificing our humanity? Can we bio-minds teach newer kind of ethics? Is it
time to regulate mass technology application? Do we need to mainstream in our media, our schools,
our local, and international government, and most immediately the boardrooms of our local
government to simply face the numerous ethical, economic, social, and biological issues in

”
application of technology?

Ethical dilemmas and policy issues for 2015 (presented in no particular order) are :

1. Real-time satellite surveillance video

2. Astronaut bioethics (of colonizing Mars)

3. Wearable technology
4. State-sponsored hacktivism and "soft war“
5. Enhanced pathogens

6. Non-lethal weapons

7. Robot swarms

8. Artificial life forms

9. Resilient social-ecological systems 10. Brain-to-brain interfaces

 • What if Google Earth offered you real-time images instead of a
snapshot 1-3 years old? Companies such as Planet Labs,
Skybox Imaging (recently purchased by Google), have
launched lots of satellites in the last year with the purpose of
recording the status of the entire earth in real time. The
Real-Time satellites themselves are getting cheaper, smaller, and more
sophisticated (with resolutions up to 1 foot) than before.
Satellite Commercial satellite companies make this data available to the
corporations (or, potentially, private citizens with enough
cash), letting customers to see useful images of areas handling
Surveillance with natural disasters and humanitarian emergencies, but also
the data on the comings and goings of private citizens. How do
Video we choose what should be observed and how frequent? Should
we use this information to solve criminalities? What is the
possible for misuse by corporations, governments, police
departments, private citizens, or terrorists and other "bad
actors"?
 • The colonization of Mars and plans for long-term space missions are
already ongoing. On December 5, NASA launched the Orion spacecraft
and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden declared it "Day One of the
Mars era." The company Mars One (along with Lockheed Martin and
Surrey Satellite Technology) is preparing to launch a robotic mission to
Astronaut Mars in 2018, with succeeding humans in 2025. The 418 men and 287
women from around the world are presently competing for the four
spots on the first one-way human settlement mission. But as we watch
Bioethics •
with interest as this clarifies, we might ask ourselves the following:
Is it moral to expose people to unknown levels of human separation

(Of and physical danger (including exposure to radiation) for such a

purpose? Will these pioneers lack privacy for the rest of their lives so
that we might watch what happens? Is it moral to consider a birth of

Colonizing child in space or on Mars! And, if so, who protects the rights of a child
not born on Earth and who did not consent to the risks? If we say no to
children in space, does that mean we sterilize all astronauts who

Mars)
volunteer for the mission? Given the potential dangers of setting up a
new colony strictly lacking in resources, how would sick colonists be
cared for? And beyond bioethics, we might ask how an off-Earth
colony would be administered.
Wearable Technology
We are presently involved to (literally and figuratively) multiple technologies that monitor our behaviors.
The development of dozens of bracelets and clip-on devices that monitor steps taken, activity levels, heart
rate, etc., not to mention the advent of organic electronics that can be layered, printed, painted, or grown on
human skin has led by the fitness tracking craze. Google is partnering with Novartis to create a contact lens
that monitors blood sugar levels in diabetics and leads the information to healthcare providers. Wearables
have the potential to teach us, protect our health, as well as violate our privacy in any amount of ways.

State-Sponsored Hacktivism and 'Soft War’

"Soft war" is a concept used to explain rights and duties of insurgents (and even terrorists) during armed
struggle. Soft war incorporates tactics other than armed force to achieve political ends. Cyber war and
hacktivism could be tools of soft war, through certain ways by states in inter-state conflict, as opposed to
isolated individuals or groups (like "Anonymous"). We already live in a state of low-intensity cyber conflict.
 • White House suspended research on
Enhanced Pathogens
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October 17, 2014 that would enhance the
pathogenicity of viruses such as influenza,
severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
and Middle East respiratory syndrome
(MERS) (often referred to as gain of
function (GOF research). Gain-of-function
research, in itself, is not detrimental; in
fact, it is used to provide vital
understandings into viruses and how to
treat them. But when it is used to increase
mammalian transmissibility and virulence,
the altered viruses pose serious security
and biosafety risks.

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Non-Lethal
Weapons
•Primarily it may seem ridiculous that kinds of weapons
that have been around since WWI and not designed to
kill could be an evolving ethical or policy dilemma
Considering the recent development and production of
non-lethal weapons such as laser missiles, blinding
weapons, pain rays, sonic weapons, electric weapons,
heat rays, disabling malodor ants, as well as the use of
gases and sprays in both the military and domestic
police forces (which are often the beneficiaries of older
military equipment). These weapons may not kill (then
again, there have been fatalities from non-lethal
weapons), but they can cause serious pain, physical
injuries, and long- term health costs (the latter has not
been fully investigated).

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Robot Swarms
•Harvard University researchers newly created a group
of 1000 robots, capable of communicating with each
other to perform simple tasks such as ordering
themselves into shapes and patterns. No human
intervention is required in these "kilobots" beyond the
original set of instructions and work together to
complete tasks. These tiny bots are based on the group
behavior of insects also can be used to perform
environmental cleanups or answer to disasters where
bumans fear to tread. The concept of driverless cars also
relies on this system, where the cars themselves would
communicate with each other to obey traffic laws and
transport people safely to their destinations
 BRAIN-TO-BRAINE INTERFERENCES
•It's no Vulcan mind meld, but brain to brain interfaces (BBI) have been
achieved, allowing for direct communication from one brain to another
without speech. The interactions can be between humans or between
humans and animals In 2014, University of Washington researchers
performed a BBI experiment that allowed a person command over another
person about half a mile away, the goal being the simple task of moving
their hand (communication so far has been one way in that one person
sends the commands and the other receives them). Using an
electroencephalography (EEG) machine that detects brain activity in the
sender and a transcranial magnetic stimulation coil that controls
movement in the receiver we've achieved a BBI twice - this year scientists
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also transmitted words from brain- to-brain across 5,000 miles.