1.Who are the contributors of the technological advances of the Information Age?

Information age has been knowingly referred to as Computer Age, Digital Age, or New Media Age
where people all over the world can have easy access on information and knowledge.

There are several important people that contributed to the Information Age with their latest
development, such as: (1) Tim Benners-Lee, who created the world-wide web or also known as WWW.
(2) Steve jobs who created the first effective personal computer called Apple 1. (3) Bill gates, who
founded the Microsoft, that creates almost everything that has to do with computers and (4) Mark
Zuckerberg who develop the most widely used social media called Facebook.

2.Aside from communication, what other aspects of society is/are being influenced in the Information
Age?

The information age brought about new many inventions and innovations that helped – or change
people. Aside from communication, information age affects our activities of daily living from how it
affects the students to study (from books to E-books), it provides easy access on news, we work, trade
stocks, sells good online.

But the fact that information age made information and knowledge easily to access, people in the
society becomes impatient. Society becomes more stressed, more negative, and MORE DEPRESSED.

Information Age do had its Advantages and Disadvantage if only we could know how to use correctly
to help people – to help the society.

3.What other technological advancement can possibly be developed in the future?

There were many different inventions that came about because of the Information Age, one of which
was the computer, but we must know that technologies and its scope has no bounds specially when
we focus on it emergence and evolution – it really is hard to predict what but is easy to guess how
usable it become and life altering it could be.

1. How would you reconcile the emerging needs of human being regarding their health and the
need to protect the growth of biodiversity?

1. Support local organic farms. Establish small, local farms using polyculture and
permaculture practices that maximize food variety, quantity and quality. Reduces the
need for transportation thus shrinking the carbon footprint. Increases food security.
Increases biodiversity.
2. Eat seasonally. Increase acceptance of consuming seasonal, indigenous food species.
Mass industrial production of corn, wheat, soybeans and rice negatively impact
biodiversity on a massive scale world-wide. Replacing those with native, non-gmo grains,
grown in smaller, localized co-ops and amid diverse plantings. Think 50′ wide bands of
 grains grown on contour, planted between 50′ wide bands of fruit and nut trees, rotated
with cover crops that feed grazing livestock contained by portable electric fencing.
3. Grow meat on grass. Replace industrial raised animals with managed, intensively rotated
pastured livestock. Studies are already showing that these protocols increase biodiversity
in the landscape. Reduces the acres of grain needed for livestock. Process the meat at
local butchering facilities for regional consumption.
4. Create agricultural pods in areas adjacent to large population zones. This might include
hydroponic farming in abandoned factories, intensive farming on vacant lots, planting
fruit trees in parks, etc.
5. Zone land used for food production that promotes biodiversity as protected agriculture
sanctuaries.
6. Include habitat landscapes within the food production zones. Hedgerows, ponds, bird and
bat houses, forests etc.
7. Waste less food. We throw out too much. Collect consumable food for redistribution for
those in need. Recycle true waste into compost or livestock feed.
8. Demand better quality food. Mass monoculture food production increases the need for
inorganic fertilizers and pesticides. Polycultures provide the diversity needed to reduce
dependence on chemical crutches.

2. Do you think that earth can exist without human being taking care of it? Or biodiversity also
needs human beings for it to be continuous growing process?

Humans change ecosystems. As long as humans are on earth, changing ecosystems, then
humans need to be aware of and try to mitigate their impacts. We are currently responsible for
decreasing biodiversity on the planet. We are dependent on the ecosystems that we are
changing, and if we are not careful, we will make the planet unlivable for ourselves, aside from
dragging other species down with us. Once we are gone, it is likely that life will go on for
surviving organisms, and evolutionary processes may lead to increases in biodiversity.
Alternately, we can change our economies, our cultures, our habits, and start acting as
caretakers for the ecosystems of earth, if only because it is the intelligent thing to do if we want
to continue as a species beyong a few hundred or thousand more years.

3. What are the small ways that you think would promote safekeeping our biodiversity? What do
you think are the common human activites that can harm biodiversity? What would be the
consequences if these human activities might be stopped and prohibited?

The most obvious answers: mowing and spraying lawns with chemicals, and clear-cutting and
possible replanting. Mowing lawns puts the entire plot of land back to the primary stage, and
applying pesticides or fertilizers favors the very few species we want in our lawns. That effects
heavily the food that’s available for animals (both plants and residing animals that depend on
the plants for food, shelter, etc.), and having done biodiversity research with my students I
know in fact this is the case. As for clear-cutting, the entire process favors very few tree species
(both in planted and unplanted sites), and the other plants and animals that live in association
with them. Clear-cutting can be done in a way that minimizes environmental site damage, but
generally that’s not the case. Soils lose their cover and nutrients after rains due to almost total
 removal of overstory (“overstory zero”), which effects the entire structure of the site and it’s
biodynamics. Some species that benefit from increases in edges may profit in the short term
(like deer), but increased edges will in most cases effect every other species as well (plants,
fungi, animals, microbiological organisms).

1. How would you reconcile the advantages and disadvantages that GMOs bring to humans?
2. When do you think should the pursuit of GMOs research stop?
3. Is genetic engineering a pure scientific process or it is indeed an act of human playing like God?

1. What are the nanomaterials and how are they made?

2. What are the factors that need to be considered before manufacturing material through
nanotechnology?
3. What are the contributions of nanotechnology for the improvement and sustainability of our
environment?

1. What significant contribution can individuals make in response to climate change?

2. Is climate change preventable?
3. What should be the significant contribution of the society as well as the government in
mitigating the hazards caused by climate change?

1. Would you subject yourself for gene therapy without its 100% assurance of effectiveness of the
future negative effects?
2. Should gene therapy be limited to medical concerns only or could it be used for aesthetic
purposes?