Module 3

Lesson 8: Why Does The Future Not Need Us?

Learning Objectives:
1. Rationalized the human experience in order to strengthen and enlighten the
human functioning in society
2. Identified and examined what the future of humanity and the future of
technology

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Introduction
Experience of human in technology? Where are we now? Wearable technology.
Sensors all over the place. We have now the power to monitor, in real time, just
about everything, giving it to these new trends. We can improve every aspect of our
life – from our health, our time, and various aspects of our family lives.

Human interests on technology allows them to expand the range of human

experiences. These are qualified experiences and what’s more, they can share these
experiences with other human beings, injecting the technology into their lives, thus,
the future of technology is based on how the human will use it.

Technology is a double edged sword, like most human things, involving gain and
loss, also merit and demerit. It links us to those far away, but confuses us from those
that are close, and hospitals save lives, but takes them on battlegrounds most of all,
technology is a choice. We use it for our own reasons. As stated above, those
people want to monitor their every heartbeat and others do not.

But most significantly, what makes us incomparably better off is technology but in the
end, the true value of technology is not about replacing human experience, but
mitigate its deficiencies.

Human and Society

Most of the time in a simple hunter-gatherer society’s human species lives. Agrarian
societies advanced less than 5,000 years ago and it is only in the last 200 years that
a ‘modern’ industrial society has come into being. Today this industrial society is
quickly converting into a global information society.
Is this societal progress a change for the better? There always been controversy
over this question, and presently the disagreement seems more intense than ever,
possibly for the reason that we are more conscious today that society is making.
Because social change is taking place at an ever increasing rate. One of the issues
in this current debate is the quality-of-life in modern society. Progress optimists have
confidence in that we live better now than earlier generations, while pessimists
question that life is getting worse.

Technology and Humanity: A Positive Side

As the old saying goes, “NECESSITIES IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION” i.e.
necessities have a tendency to issue inventions as each invention is invaded with
the need of betterment and transmogrification.

In a day there are newer and newer advances are happening. Technological change
has a large responsibility for many of the secular trends in such basic parameters of
the human condition as the size of the world population, life expectancy, education
levels, material standards of living, and the nature of work, communication, health
care, war, and the effects of human activities on the natural environment.
Technology influences, other aspects of society and our individual lives in many
direct and indirect ways, including governance, entertainment, human relationships,
and our views on morality, mind, matter , and human nature.
Human history with a kind of directionality was provided by technological
development.
As technology advances, it backs the characteristics if every situation over and over
again. The age of automation is going to be the age of “Do it yourself”.

The Positive View

 Material Standard of Living
Several achievements of modern society draws through the idea that life is
getting better. One is the unparalleled rise in the material standard of living;
the average citizen lives more easily now than kings did centuries ago.

 Untimely Death is reduced

Another development that strikes the eye is the unintended of untimely death
is greatly reduced; fewer people die in accidents, epidemics, and murder. A
number of social evils have been decreased, such as poverty, inequality,
ignorance, and oppressions. A recent statement of this view can be found in
‘It’s getting better all the time’ by Moore and Simon (2000).

 Improvement in Evolutionary View

This view of development is typically part of an evolutionary view, in which
society is seen as a human tool that is gradually perfected. This idea
established during the period of enlightenment in the 18 th century and lives
today. The idea that we can progress society by ‘social engineering’ is part if
this belief and forms the ideological foundation of many major contemporary
institutions, such as the welfare state and development aid organization. This
journal of ‘Social Indicators Research’ roots in that movement.
  Reduced Suffering
This is a traditional religious view of earthly life as a phase of penance
awaiting paradise in the afterlife breaks the knowledge that life is getting
better. It deem the possibility to reduce suffering by creating a better world
and societal development seen to head in that way, be it with some ups and
downs.

These advancements are also together with the reduction in time, effort, and cost for
production of any material extending from the microchips to the state of the art
automobiles or from the classy devices to the mega structures coupled with ease in
design and development.

These development also invigorate economic development as effective use of

technology. Reduces the material production cost and the above changes that
produce savings in the economy and lead to national development

The Negative View

Problems and potentials often go hand in hand; problems can be twisted into
opportunities. Elements of the universe exhibits two faces, constructive side, and
destructive side.

Society had become more and more reliant on technology. So that we sometimes
lack the willingness to think before we act. We become intolerant if it takes more
than a seconds to download a copy of the morning newspaper. We expect instant
response to our email, and we expect someone to answer their cellphone whenever
and wherever we call.

Technology is making us so broken that cannot even find time to spend with close
friends. It would be shocking to know that people are in contact through chat and
online messaging though they are in the same city because they think it is more
faster and effective but they forget that meeting personally cannot be replace by
online chatting.

Science and technology gifts have been knowingly abused by the powerful humanity,
and time. There are natural side-effects of these gifts, but their deliberately misuse,
abuse, and outweigh and evils of the side-effects, which could have been improved
or at least minimized to a large extent otherwise. Human greed, selfish interest, lack
of planning and myopic vision has all led to the abuse of science and technology.

 Contemporary Social Problems

Life is getting worse is typically fuelled by concern about contemporary social
problems. One of the kind problems is deviant behavior, such as criminality,
drug use, and school refusal. Another group of problems seen to lessen the
quality of life such as social conflicts, labor disputes, ethnic troubles, and
political terrorism. The decline of the influence of the church, family and local
community are also seen to deprive the quality of life of modern people. A
recent statement of this view is found in Easterbrook (2003) ‘The progress
paradox’.
  Society Drifting away from Human Nature
This view of deterioration is often part of the idea of society drifting away from
human nature, because society has changed a lot, while human nature has
not. Not a piece of equipment, but rather an uncontrollable force that presses
humans into a way of life that does not really fit them in society view. The idea
that life is getting poorer fits a long tradition of social criticism and apocalyptic
prophecies. In this view, paradise is lost and doubtful to be restored.

According to Billy Joy’s: “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us” from Wired Magazine
Issue 8.04; April 2000: He said that:

The machines that do our work for us and will achieve immortality by downloading
ourselves into them is all about robotics. But Joy does not believe we will be human
after the downloads or the robots would be our kids. Genetic engineering will create
new crops, plants, and eventually new species including many variations of human
species. Joy has many fears about genetics but especially how easy it would be to
mess up and create some new epidemic. And nanotechnology has its “gray goo”
problem – self-replicating nanobots out of control.

So it is the power of damaging self-replication in GNR that give us pause. He thinks

we are on the edge of killing ourselves and this might be common to species that
reach the level of power and intelligence we have, he thinks it arrogant to design a
robot as a replacement species when we mess up with things.
The length of progress of nuclear weapons. The weapons were built and then a kind
of momentum happened leading, over ensuing decades, to a continual build up that
put us at the brink of nuclear disaster. Believes there is less than 50% chance of
making it thru the next century [I’m reading between the lines.]. And solutions like
moving into space, nuclear defense shields, and nanotechnology shields won’t work,
since every new defensive shields may be unsafe as what they were designed to
protect. Thus the only truthful substitute I see is relinquishment.

There are few tell us not to open this Pandora’s Box, not to let our tech take control
of us. Especially since we have no plan and no control. We still have a chance to
stop chasing the course, but soon it will be late. We do have a guide for stopping all
this stuff to the arms race. We did begin to sign treatises and ban and reduce
weapons because we comprehended that we were all at risk. Confirmation of bans
against GNR will be difficult it is possible. GNR may bring happiness and immortality,
but should we risk the survival or the species for such goals? Like eternity, liberty,
and equality are worthwhile goals but another utopian vision is based on fraternity
(altruism). For an ethical basis for the future J looks to the Dalai Lama who
advocates love, compassion, and universal responsibility. It is not material
development or the pursuit of knowledge what will ultimately make us happy.

Joy continues to speak passionately for his position and thinks he may be morally
obliged to stop this [software dev] work. All of this leaves him not angry but at least a
bit unhappy. Henceforth, for me, progress will be somewhat bittersweet.
 Relevance of the Issue
This discussion is not just some academic matter to be reasoned over in ivory
towers; it has profound policy implications. If modernization makes society less
livable, we should try to stop the process, or at least to slow it down. Conservatives
have a strong point in this case and can convincingly argue for restorative policies.
However, if modernization tends to improve the quality-of-life, we better go along,
which would rather fit the liberal political agenda. In the latter case there is also
ground to further modernization, which would support various reformist tendencies in
advanced nations and justifies missionary activities such as ‘development aid’ for
‘under-developed’ nations.

Societal Collapse
There are several attempts to explain the society collapse. This includes the
following words: Gibbons’ classic Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire also Joseph
Tainter’s Collapse of Complex Societies, and Jared Diamond’s more recent
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.

Tainter (1990), notes that societies need to protect certain resources such as food,
energy, and natural resources in order to sustain their populations. In their attempts
to solve this supply problem, societies may grow in complexity in the form of
bureaucracy, infrastructure, social class distinction, military operations, and colonies.
Sometimes, the marginal returns on these investments in social complexity become
unfavorable, and societies that do not manage to scale back when their
organizational overheads become too large finally face breakdown.

Diamond says that many past cases of societal collapse have elaborate
environmental factors such as deforestation and habitat destruction, soil problems,
water management problems, overhunting and overfishing, the effects of introduced
species, human population growth, and increased per-capita impact of people.

Four new factors that may contribute to the collapse of present and future societies
was also suggested by him such as human-caused climate change, but also build-up
of toxic chemicals in the environment, energy shortages, and the full utilization of the
Earth’s photosynthetic capacity. Diamond draws attention to the danger of creeping
normalcy, stating to the phenomenon of a slow trend being concealed within noisy
fluctuations, so that a detrimental outcome that occurs in small, almost unnoticeable
steps may be accepted or come about without resistance even if the same outcome,
had come about in one sudden leap, would have evoked a vigorous response.

Different classes of scenarios involving societal collapse:

 Local Societal Collapse
Individual societies can collapse, but this is doubtful to have a determining
effect on the future of humanity if other advanced societies survive and take
up where the failed societies left off. All historical cases of collapse have been
of this kind.
  Global Societal Collapse
We suppose new kinds of threat (e.g. nuclear holocaust or catastrophic
changes in the global environment) or the trend towards globalization
increased interdependence of different parts of the world and create a
vulnerability to human civilization as a whole.

Assume that a global societal collapse were to occur. What happens next? If the
collapse is a nature that a new advanced global civilization can never be rebuilt, the
outcome would succeed as an existential disaster. Though, it is hard to think of a
reasonable collapse which the human species survives but makes it permanently
impossible to rebuild civilization.

Supposing, that a new technologically advanced civilization is eventually rebuilt,

what is the fate of this increasing civilization? Again, there are two possibilities. The
new civilization might neglect collapse; and in the succeeding two sections we will
examine what could happen to a sustainable global civilization. Otherwise, the new
civilization collapses again, and the cycle repeats. If a sustainable civilization arises,
we reach the kind of situation that the following sections will discuss. Instead one of
the collapses leads to extinction, then we have the kind of scenario that was
discussed in the previous section. The remaining case tat we face a cycle of
indefinitely repeating collapse and regeneration.

Different Conclusions for Different Situations

There are many conceivable explanations why an advanced society might collapse,
only a subgroup of these explanations could probably account for an unending
pattern of collapse and regeneration cycle could not depend on some dependent
factor that would apply to some advanced civilizations and not others, or to a factor
that an advanced civilization would have realistic chance of counteracting; for such a
factor were responsible, one would expect that the collapse-regeneration pattern
would at some point be broken when the right circumstances finally enabled an
advanced civilization to overcome the obstacles to sustainability.

The postulated cause for collapse could not be so powerful as to the cause of
extinction of the human species.

Humanity has progress from the essence that separates humans from beasts: the
minds has the ability to reason. Reason is the ability to analyze, create, deduce, and
formulate. It is reason that allows human beings to strive and to invent; it is through
invention that mankind developed society and created a better world.

Technology now, we can say that it is the sum total of instrumentally useful
culturally-transmissible information.

Technology, a term with Greek origins, is defined as “the practical application of

knowledge especially in a specific part’. Technology used to collectively describe or
portray the advancements, abilities, creations, undertakings, views, and knowledge
of a singular group of persons: we as humankind.
 Relation of Technology with Humanity
When we talk about the relationships between technology and humanity, it is obvious
that we have to deal with the interrelations between a very complex phenomena:
technology, science, society, and systems of rights of a universal nature. A large
number of powerful energy sources-coal, petroleum, electricity etc. have enabled
humanity to conquer the barriers of nature as part of discovery and development. All
this has facilitates the growth of fast modes of transports, which in turn has
transformed the world into a global village.

The Future of Humanity

What was dissimilar in the 20th century? Surely, the technologies underlying the
Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) – Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical (NBC) –
were powerful weapons had an enormous risk. But building nuclear weapons
required, at least for a time, access to both rare – indeed, effectively unavailable –
raw materials and highly protected information; biological and chemical weapons
programs also inclined to require large-scale activities.

Technologies in the 21st century such as Genetics, Nanotechnology, and Robotics

(GNR) – are so powerful that they can spawn whole new classes of accidents and
abuses. Most dangerous for the first time are these accidents and abuses. These are
widely seen within the reach of individuals or small groups. They will not require
large facilities or rare raw materials. Knowledge alone will allow the use of them.

Therefore, we have the possibility not only to those weapons of mass destruction but
also to those knowledge and enabled mass destruction (KMD), this destructiveness
hugely amplified by the power of self-replication.

Plateau mentions that two possible paths depicts for the future of humanity, one
representing an increase followed by a permanent plateau, the other representing
stasis at (or close to) the current status quo.

Static View
Implausible is the static view. It would imply that we have just arrived at the final
human condition even at a time when change is exceptionally fast.

The static view would also imply a radical break with numerous trends.
a. If the economy of the world continues to raise at the same pace as in the last
half century, at that time of 2050 the world will be seven times richer than it is
today.
b. Population of the world is predicted to increase over 9 billion in 2050, so usual
wealth would also increase vividly.
c. Additionally by 2100 the world would be almost 50 times richer than today. A
single modest-sized country might then have as much wealth as the entire
world has at the present.
Over the course of human history, doubling time of the world economy has
been extremely reduced on several occasions, such as agricultural transition
and the Industrial Revolution. Such transition should occur in this century, the
 world economy might be numerous orders of magnitudes larger by the end of
the century.
Another purpose for conveying a low probability to the static view is that we
can foresee various specific technological advances that will give humans
important new capacities.
d. Virtual reality surroundings will constitute an increasing fraction of our
experience. The capability of recording, surveillance, biometrics, and date
mining technologies will grow, making it gradually feasible to keep track of
where people go, whom they meet, what they do, and what goes on inside
their bodies.
e. Among the most significant potential growth are one that would enable us to
alter our biology directly through technological means. Interventions could
affect us more deeply than modification of beliefs, habits, culture, and
education. If we learn to control the biochemical processes of human
senescence, healthy lifespan could be radically prolonged. A person with the
age-specific mortality of a 20-year-old would have a life expectancy about a
thousand years. The ancient but hither to mostly useless quest for happiness
could meet with success if scientists could develop safe and effective
methods of controlling the brain circuitry responsible for subjective well-being.
f. Drugs and other neuro technologies could make it progressively feasible for
users to shape themselves into the kind of people they want to be by
correcting their personality, emotional character, mental energy, romantic
attachments, and moral character. Cognitive enhancements might deepen our
intellectual lives.
g. Wide-range consequences for manufacturing, medicine, and computing came
from nanotechnology.
h. Machine intelligence, is additional potential revolutionary technology.
i. Prediction markets might improve the capability of human groups to forecast
future developments, and other technological or institutional developments
might lead to new ways for humans to organize more effective institutional
innovations.
The influences of these and other technological growths on the character of
human lives are hard to predict, but that they will have such impacts seems a
safe bet. Those who believe that developments such as those listed will not
occur should consider whether their skepticism is really about ultimate
feasibility or merely about timescales. Some of these technologies will be
difficult to develop.
Does that gives us reason to think that they will never be developed? Not
even in 50 years? 200 years? 10,000 years? In the past, growths such as
language, agriculture, and Industrial Revolution may be said to have
knowingly changed the human condition. There are at least a thousand times
more of us now; and with present world average life expectancy at 67 years,
we live possibly three times longer than our Pleistocene ancestors.
The human beings mental life has been transformed by developments such
as language literacy, urbanization, and division of labor, industrialization,
science, communications transport, and media technology.
 Prediction of Artificial Intelligence
Good (1965). The idea of a technological singularity tied specifically to artificial
intelligence and stated:
“Let an ultra-intelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the
intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is
one of these intellectual activities, an ultra-intelligent machine could design even
better machines; there would then unquestionably be an ‘intelligence explosion’, and
the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultra-intelligent
machine is the last invention that man need ever make… It is more probable than
not that, within the twentieth century, an ultra-intelligent machine will be built.”

Vernor Vinge elaborated the idea in the coming technological singularity, adjusting
the timing of Good’s prediction:
“Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman
intelligence. Shortly thereafter, the human era will be ended”

Technology and Its Usability

Technology future will be determined by its usability, its relevance to the needs of the
future and combined with the simplicity. Technology has evolved since 1990, what
used to work before can seem out aged by now. Year by year new technologies
appear and it is up to the users to hold and learn how to use these technologies in
their everyday lives.

Technology has transformed the way we communicate, the way we travel, the way
we socialize, it makes the way easy to learn, it has changed our homes and
lifestyles, and it has formed many opportunities. Future technology will bring more
opportunities to those who are willing to learn, how to use it, and exploit it to the
maximum.

Technology is good and it can change our society, but the way we use it will
measure if it is beneficial or not. Future technologies have to be planned to serve
people and society, and they have to be user friendly. The society has to use future
technologies with good intentions.

The design and use of future technology. Human have a unique capabilities of
imagining the impossible and creating new ideas and this will determine the type of
technology to be used tomorrow will determine through imagination and creative
thinking.
1. Computer technology future
2. Next generation wearable computer is HOLO
3. Watch technology of home technology
4. The forthcoming of home technology
5. The coming of classroom technology
 How technology is transforming the Human Experience
The sci-fi genre has imagined all sorts of groundbreaking inventions, but realty holds
as many captivating examples of advance technology that is changing
people’s/human everyday lives which could impact them in the future. Technology is
really transforming the human experience, helping people to achieve things that
would have only been previously dreamt in fiction, though some of the new
inventions should potentially stay there.
a. Hearing colors/Hearing at Arm’s Length
b. Eye-Camera/Smart Contact Lens/Eyeball Jewelry Implant
c. Human compass
d. Password Pill
e. Electronic Throat Tattoo
f. Interaction with Devices
g. Robot Arm/Controlling Wheelchair
h. Bionic Limp
i. Artificial Vision Systems
j. Terminator Arm/Titan Arm
k. USB finger/Mind Uploading

The New Pandora’s Box – also known as “Technology”

The new Pandora’s boxes of genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics are almost
open, yet we seem hardly to have noticed. Ideas can’t be put back in a box; unlike
uranium or plutonium, they do not be mined and refined, and they can be freely
copied. Once they are out, they are out. Churchill remarked, in a famous left-handed
compliment, that the American people and their leaders “invariably do the right thing,
after they have examined every other alternative”.

In this case, we must act more presciently to do the right thing at last may lose the
chance to do it all. As Thoreau said, “We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon
us”; and this is what we must fight, in our time.

The question is, indeed, 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. The extinction scenario
Perhaps the least affected by spreading the timeframe of consideration. If
humanity goes extinct, it stays extinct. The cumulative probability of extinction
increases monotonically over time. One argue, that the current century or the
next times, will be a critical phase for humanity, if we make it through this
period then the life expectancy of human civilization could become extremely
high. Several possible lines of argument would support this view. For
example, one might believe that super intelligence will be developed within a
few centuries, and that, while the creation of super intelligence will pose grave
risks, once that creation and its immediate aftermath have been survived, the
new civilization would have vastly improved survival prospects since it would
be guided by super intelligent foresight and planning. Furthermore, one might
believe that self-sustaining space colonies may have been established within
 such a timeframe, and that once a human or post human civilization becomes
dispersed over multiple planets and solar systems, the risk of extinction
declines. One might also believe that many of the possible revolutionary
technologies (not only super intelligence) that can be developed within the
next several hundred years; and these technological revolutions are destined
to cause existential disaster, they would already have done so by then.

2. The recurrent collapse scenario

Becomes progressively unlikely the longer the timescale, for reasons that are
apparent from figure, the scenario assumes that technological civilization will
hesitate continuously within a relatively narrow band of progress. If there is
any chance that a cycle will either break through to the post human level or
plummet into extinction, then there is for each period a chance that the
oscillation will end. Unless the chance of such a breakout meets to zero at an
appropriately rapid rate, then probability one the pattern will finally be broken.
At that point the pattern might degenerate into one of the other ones we have
considered.

3. The plateau scenarios

The recurrent collapse scenario in the level of civilization is theorized to
remain confined within a narrow range; and the longer the timeframe
considered, the smaller the probability that the level of technological growth
will remain within its range. But compared to the recurrent collapse pattern,
the plateau pattern might be thought to have a bit more staying power. The
reason is that the plateau pattern is reliable with a situation of complete
motionlessness such as result from the rise of a very stable political system,
propped up by greatly increased powers of surveillance and population
control, and which for one reason or another chooses to preserve its status
quo. Such stability is inconsistent with the recurrent collapse scenario.

4. The cumulative probability of post humanity

Like extinction, increases monotonically over time. Contrast to extinction
scenarios there is a possibility that a civilization that has achieved a post
human condition will alter return to a human condition. The reasons
paralleling those suggested earlier for the idea that the annual risk of
extinction will decline significantly after certain critical technologies have been
developed and after self-sustaining space colonies have been created, one
might maintain that the annual likelihood that a post human condition would
revert to a human condition will similarly decline over time.

Posthumanity Theory
A clarification of what has been referred to as “post human condition” is overdue. It is
used to mention to a condition which has at least one of the following features:
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.

Post-humanity is a theory/concept that is of an advance level of technological or

economic development that would involve a radical change in the human condition,
whether the change was brought by biological enhancement or other causes.

The Longer Term

The four families of scenarios we have considered such as extinction, recurrent
collapse, plateau, and post humanity, it could be controlled by varying the period
over hypothesized occur. A few hundred years or a few thousand years might
already be plenty of time for the scenarios to have an opportunity to play themselves
out. Yet such interval is a blip compared to the lifetime of the universe. Let use
therefore zoom out and consider the longer term prospects for humanity.

They notice first is that the longer the time scale it is less likely technological
civilization will remain within the zone we termed “the human condition” throughout.

The scenarios presented reveals how “human condition” is among all the possible
levels of organismic and technological development. The “human condition” will
reveal a much more of the larger picture.

Message to Humanity
It is needless to say that like any other aspect of development, the technological
development is similar to a double edge sword which on one side can kill someone
and on the other side can lead to one’s own protection. However, the decision to use
it proficiently in proper perspective is one’s own decision and choice.

If technological advancements are put in the best uses, it further inspires the
development in related and non-related areas but at the same time its negative use
can create havoc in the humanity or the world. Technology has and will, change the
moral fabric of humanity; it is up to the present generation to heed this warning and
not allow such societal travesties of immense proportions ever to occur again.
Technological advancements will continue to advance rapidly as we move into the
next millennium. What important is to ensure that these advances benefit humanity
as a whole…
 APPLICATION
Assess the current technology and identify where technology can surpass the
ability of the humans and can be replace by technology. (Not more than 4
sentences)
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ASSESSMENT
Identify what/who is described in the following statements:

__________1. A double edged sword.

__________2. A tendency to issue inventions as each invention is invaded with the
need of betterment and transmogrification.
__________3. Self-replicating nanobots out of control.
__________4. The trend towards globalization increased interdependence of
different parts of the world and create a vulnerability to human
civilization as a whole.
__________5. Has large responsibility for many secular trends in such basic
parameters of the human condition.
__________6. This imply that we have just arrived at the final human condition even
at a time when change is exceptionally fast.
__________7. Have a unique capabilities of imagining the impossible and creating
new ideas.
__________8. This bring more opportunities to those who are willing to learn, how to
use it, and exploit it to the maximum.
__________9. Who said “invariably do the right thing, after they have examined
every other alternative?”
__________10. A theory/concept that is of an advance level of technological or
economic development.
__________11. What does “WMD” stands for?
__________12. What does “NBC” stands for?
__________13. What does “GNR” stands for?
__________14. All historical cases of collapse have been of this kind.
__________15. The new Pandora’s Box.

Reflection
How does the technology transform the human experience?
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