WHY THE FUTURE DOESN’T NEED US

 Development of modern technology

 Possible danger of increasingly advancing

Terminologies technology

TECHNOLOGY - The application of scientific knowledge  Genetic Engineering, Nanotechnology and

to the practical aims of human life or, as it is sometimes Robotics (GNR)
phrased, to the change and manipulation of the human
environment. GNR have the potential to Self-Replicate
HUMAN - Humans are primates. Physical and genetic
similarities show that the modern human species, homo *Self-Replicate means having the ability to
sapiens, has a very close relationship to another group replicate or produce of itself; reproducing itself
of primate species, the apes.

MACHINE - A device having a unique purpose, that Being able to replicate itself, the product of GNR
augments or replaces human or animal effort for the becomes an independent entity: therefore, the
accomplishment of physical tasks. humanity loses control over it.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - The ability of a digital That can lead to physical damage and total
computer-controlled robot to perform task commonly extermination of any living entity.
associated with intelligent beings.

GENETIC - The artificial manipulation, modification, and

recombination of DNA or other nucleic acid molecules
in order to modify an organism or population of
organism.
NANOTECHNOLOGY - A field of applied science and
technology whose unifying theme is the control of
matter on the molecular.
ROBOT - Comes from the Czech word “Robota” which
means “forced work or labor”
Bill joy uses the “Gray Goo” threat to
demonstrate how uncontrolled masses of
replicators can occupy the entire planet.
*Gray goo scenario means out-of-control
nanotech replicators that wipe out all life on
earth.

ROBOTICS - Is the science and study of robots.

DYSTOPIA - is a community or society that is
undesirable or frightening.
BILL JOY
Dystopian societies appear in many fictional
Full Name: William Nelson Joy works and artistic representations particularly in
stories set in the future.
 American Computer Scientist
 Co-Founder of Sun Microsystem in 1982 The new luddite challenge
* Sun Microsystems was an American company
“Luddite” is now a blanket term used to describe
that sold computers, computer components, software
people who dislike new technology, but its
and information technology services.
origins date back to an early 19th-century labor
movement that railed against the ways that
mechanized manufactures and their unskilled
Wired Magazine
laborers undermined the skilled craftsmen of the
day.
Why The Future Doesn’t
Need Us
April 2000
• All works will be done by vast, highly “ANYTHING THAT CAN GO WRONG, WILL.”
organized systems of machines and no human
effort will be necessary. Murphy’s Law

Either of 2 cases/scenarios might occur:

1. The machines might be permitted to make all RAYMOND KURZWEIL

of their own decisions without human • Born on February 12, 1948
oversight.
• A director of engineering at Google
 Human beings can’t make any
conjectures • American inventor, a well-known futurist
 Human race would be at the mercy of with a track record for accurate predictions
the machines
 Human race might easily permit itself • Previous books are The Age of Spiritual
to drift into a position of such Machines(1990) and The Age of Spiritual
dependence on the machines Machines (1999)
 People will let machines make more of
their decisions for them
What is singularity?`
Eventually, a stage may be reached at which
the decisions necessary to keep the system • Is a 2005 nonfiction book about artificial
running will be so complex that human being intelligence and the future of humanity
will be incapable of making them intelligently.
• Kurzweil describes his law of accelerating
returns which predicts an exponential
increase in technologies like computers,
2. Human control over the machines might be
genetics, nanotechnology, robotics and
retained.
artificial intelligence.
 The average man may have control The singularity is near (2005)
over certain private machines of his
own • 2020s: Nanobot used in medical field
 Control over large systems of
machines will be in the hand of a tiny • 2029: First computer passes Turing test
elite
• 2045: Singularity
 The elite will have greater control over
the masses

Because human work will no longer be TED KACZYNSKI(The Unabomber)

necessary, the masses will be superfluous, a
useless burden of the system. THEODORE “TED” KACZYNSKI

The elite can either be ruthless or soft-  he was born in Chicago in 1942 to a working-
hearted liberals. class family of Polish Ancestry

*If the elite are ruthless they may simply  he was accepted at Harvard University on a
decide to exterminate the mass of humanity. full scholarship at the age of 16

*If the elite consist of soft-hearted liberals,  he graduated from Harvard with bachelor’s
they may decide to play the role of good degree in Mathematics in 1962, then earned
shepherds to the rest of the human race.
 master’s degree in 1964 and a doctorate
degree in 1967
“THE UNABOMBER”
 It is the nickname given to TED KAZCYNSKI,
who conducted a 17 year series of attacks
using mail bombs to target academics,
business, executives and others.
UNABOMBER ARRESTED
 On April 3, 1996, FBI officers descended upon
the rural compound in Montana where
Kaczynski was found in a disheveled state
surrounded by bomb-making tools and parts.
 He was indicated by a federal grand jury on
10 counts of illegally transporting, mailing,
and using bombs, and 3 counts of murder.

 The Unabomber bombing campaign- killed 3

people and injured 23 started at late 1970’s
until 1996.

THE UNABOMBER ATTACKS

 Kaczynski began using mail bombs sent via

the U.S. Postal Service or that he occasionally
hand-delivered himself.

 His first target, Northwestern University

professor of engineering- Buckley Crist.

 Over the next seven years, he sent bombs to

multiple targets, injuring several people,
some seriously injured and died.

THE UNABOMBER MANIFESTO

 The FBI called it’s ongoing investigation

“UNABOM”- For University and Airline
Bomber. Still, Kaczynski’s identity was
unknown to authorities.

 In 1995, Kaczynski sent letters demanding

that his essay entitled “Industrial Society and
It’s Future” be published.

“INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY AND IT’S FUTURE”

 A 35,000 word manifesto written by

Kaczynski

 the writings advocated for “ an ideology that

opposes technology and the ‘counter-ideal’ of
nature”