MIDTERM PART 1
TOPIC ADVANTAGES
1. Fuel cell vehicle
2. Next generation robotics
3. Recyclable Thermoset
Plastic
4. Precis genetic Engineering
techniques
5. Additive Manufacturing
6. Emergent Artificial
intelligence
7. Distributed Manufacturing
8. Sense and avoid Drones
9. Neuromorphic Technology
10. Digital genome
DISADVANTAGES
 No harmful vehicle
emissions
 Re-fueling time is much
lower than electric cars
 Cost Effectiveness
 Improved Quality
Assurance
 Resists deformation
 Generally form stronger
durable chemical bonds
 Allows us to achieve a
faster growth rate
 We can create new types
of plants and animals
 Complexity is free
 No assembly required
 Error Reduction
 Repetitive Jobs
 Reducing risk
 Manufacturing supply
chain is made more agile
 Have the ability to
increase crop yields
 Make dangerous jobs
safer
 Very high sensitivity
 Limited sensing range
 Same as those for GEP
 Applicable in interphase
plasma cells
 Price already lagging behind
electric cars
 Highly flammable
 Potential Job Losses
 Initial Investment Costs
 Increasing handling
inconvenience
 Required great control
 It changes the levels of
diversity in a species
 Could create new diseases
 High production costs
 Requires post-processing
 High Cost
 No Replicating Humans
 It requires a higher capital
investment
 Not everything can be
made via distributed
manufacturing
 Struggling to find ways to
encourage innovation
 Companies are hindered in
their ability to invest and
expand.
 Poor precision
 High power consumption
 Requires the presence of
plasma
 Significant cost
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Yuval Noah Harari's equation of B X C X D= AHH, where B=biological knowledge, C=computer power,
D=data, AHH= Ability to hack human
BIOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE
A good rule of thumb is ‘Biology enables, culture forbids.’ Biology is willing to tolerate a very wide
spectrum of possibilities. It’s culture that obligates people to realize some possibilities while forbidding
others. Biology enables women to have children; some cultures oblige women to realize this possibility.
Biology enables men to enjoy sex with one another; some cultures forbid them to realize this possibility.
Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective,
nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. A truly unnatural behavior, one
that goes against the laws of nature, simply cannot exist, so it would need no prohibition.
COMPUTER POWER
The effective performance of a computer. It can be expressed in MIPS (millions of instructions per
second), clock speed (1 Ghz, 2 Ghz) and in word or bus size, (16-bit, 32-bit, etc.). However, as with
automobile horsepower and the number of cylinders, such specifications are only guidelines. Real power
is whether it gets the job done in the required time. Software Power A software program is called
"powerful" if it has a large number of features.
DATA
Data, information, knowledge and wisdom are closely related concepts, but each has its own role in
relation to the other, and each term has its own meaning. According to a common view, data is collected
and analyzed; data only becomes information suitable for making decisions once it has been analyzed in
some fashion. One can say that the extent to which a set of data is informative to someone depends on
the extent to which it is unexpected by that person. The amount of information contained in a data
stream may be characterized by its Shannon entropy.
ABILITY TO HACK HUMAN
When you combine our increasing understanding of biology, especially brain science, with the enormous
computing power that machine learning and AI is giving us, what you get from that combination is the
ability to hack humans, which means to predict their choices, to understand their feelings, to manipulate
them and also to replace them. If you can hack something you can also replace it.
REACTION
Our biology gives us a very wide playground and a lot of berth. We’re capable of a wide variety of
activities and forms of organization, while other species generally fall into far more fixed and predictable
hierarchies. Over the course of history, humans have taken advantage of this wide range in a variety of
positive and negative ways by creating and sustaining myths not supported by biological reality. With AI
we have created a system that understands us better than we understand ourselves, which can predict
and certainly manipulate feelings and decisions, and can ultimately make decisions for us. Harari points
out that this power to “hack” humans can not only be used for good purposes, e.g. providing better
healthcare but also by totalitarian systems to monitor citizens. However, the prevention of these digital
dictatorships will not stop the ability to hack humans from undermining the very meaning of human
freedom – namely, that we will rely more and more on AI to make decisions for us. Already today
algorithms effect our lives – on Facebook, Google, Netflix, Amazon, Alibaba and in lots of other daily
interactions. I think it's highly unlikely that in the near, or even medium, future AI will gain
consciousness and start having feelings and desires of its own and start killing people. That is science
fiction. I really like science fiction but I think the worst service that it has done over the last few years is
to distract people from the real dangers of AI, and focus them on unrealistic scenarios. There is
absolutely no indication that AI and computers are anywhere on the road to becoming conscious. You
cannot prevent climate change on a national basis. You can reduce your own greenhouse gas emissions
to zero, but if the other countries are not doing the same, it won't help. Similarly, you cannot regulate AI
on a national basis.
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1. Biometric bracelet - Monitor your blood pressure, heart rate, brain activty etc.
2. Nuclear war - is a military conflict or political strategy in which nuclear weaponry is used to inflict
damage on the enemy.
3. Ecological collapse - Ecological collapse refers to a situation where an ecosystem suffers a drastic,
possibly permanent, reduction in carrying capacity for all organisms, often resulting in mass extinction.
4. Artificial Intelligence - is the ability of a computer program or a machine to think and learn. It is also a
field of study which tries to make computers "smart".
5. Data colony - means that new social relations become a key means whereby new forms of economic
value are created.
6. Steam power - power that is applied to an engine by the force of steam.
7. Spinning Jenny - a multi-spindle spinning frame, and was one of the key developments in the
industrialization of weaving during the early Industrial Revolution.
8. Machinery - an item attached to a building or to land.
9. Electricity - a form of energy resulting from the existence of charged particles, either statically as an
accumulation of charge or dynamically as a current.
10. biochemistry - the branch of science concerned with the chemical and physicochemical processes
and substances that occur within living organisms.
11. Digitization - the conversion of text, pictures, or sound into a digital form that can be processed by a
computer.
12. Mobilization - the action of a country or its government preparing and organizing troops for active
service.
13. Augmentation - the action or process of making or becoming greater in size or amount.
14. Disintermediation - reduction in the use of intermediaries between producers and consumers, for
example by investing directly in the securities market rather than through a bank.
15. Automation - the use of largely automatic equipment in a system of manufacturing or other
production process.
16. Autonomous vehicles - A self-driving car, capable of sensing its environment and operating without
human involvement.
17. Healthcare sensor - use current or optics to sense the human body's vital signs. Typically, these
biosensors condition the signal and send it to a microprocessor for storage, calculation, or display by a
health monitoring device.
18. Telephone - a system for transmitting voices over a distance using wire or radio, by converting
acoustic vibrations to electrical signals.
19. Semiconductor - a solid substance that has a conductivity between that of an insulator and that of
most metals.
20. 3D printing - the action or process of making a physical object from a three-dimensional digital
model, typically by laying down many thin layers of a material in succession.
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We are equal regardless of culture, religion, and govt.
Every human being should be treated equally according to their human rights. Which means
nobody should be tortured or treated in an inhuman or degrading way. Equal does not mean that we are
all the same. Each of us is different in our own special way but we also have the common qualities that
make us all humans. o persons should be discriminated against in their sexual and reproductive lives.
Everybody has the right to protection from all forms of violence caused by reason of their race, color,
language, sex, religion, political, national or social origin, property, birth or another status.

We are connected less the fake borders.

Many people do not understand the existence of borders in every country. This border is for
determining the extent of a country's land and not for separating people. Regardless of borders,
everyone can still be connected. You can still be one and work together. Borders should not be an
excuse for not being able to connect with each other.

We are a materialistic society.

Highly materialistic people believe that owning and buying things are necessary means to
achieve important life goals, such as happiness, success and desirability. But other research shows that
materialism is a natural part of being human and that people develop materialistic tendencies as an
adaptive response to cope with situations that make them feel anxious and insecure, such as a difficult
family relationship or even our natural fear of death. I also found that materialists in general are
“meaning-seekers” rather than status seekers. They believe in the symbolic and signaling powers of
products, brands and price tags. Look to our culture and what sort of collectivistic values it tries to teach
us, it will less conspicuous and wasteful in its consumption. Rather than focusing efforts to diminish it,
individual consumers, businesses and policymakers should focus on using it for promoting collective
interests that benefit wider society.

Go back to houses and rebuild a home.

Houses become a home when there is a happy family who lives together. No family is perfect, so
no matter what problem comes up you should think positive and an effective solution. Don't be a
pessimist, and think your family is bad. Because eventually they will be the only ones you can run away
from your problem.

The Earth is sick.

This planet is not designed to last forever no matter how environmentalists try to save it.
Human activity is causing environmental degradation, which is the deterioration of the environment
through depletion of resources such as air, water and soil; the destruction of ecosystems; habitat
destruction; the extinction of wildlife; and pollution. We are rapidly changing large portions of the
environment, such as when we cut down a forest to make way for a town. we are also rapidly changing
the environment by adding too much waste to it, such as when cars and generators release carbon
dioxide into the air. But this would mean that we would have to find new ways to house ourselves and
grow our crops, stop driving cars, and stop using electricity generated by fuel. This would be very
difficult, maybe impossible, for us to do as a society.
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The fourth Industrial Revolution

We’re on the cusp of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, or Industry 4.0. It’s quite different
than the three Industrial Revolutions that preceded it steam and water power, electricity
and assembly lines, and computerization, because it will even challenge our ideas
about what it means to be human. The Fourth Industrial Revolution describes the
exponential changes to the way we live, work and relate to one another due to the
adoption of cyber-physical systems, the Internet of Things and the Internet of Systems.
As we implement smart technologies in our factories and workplaces, connected
machines will interact, visualize the entire production chain and make decisions
autonomously. This revolution is expected to impact all disciplines, industries, and
economies. While in some ways it's an extension of the computerization of the 3rd
Industrial Revolution (Digital Revolution), due to the velocity, scope and systems impact
of the changes of the fourth revolution, it is being considered a distinct era. The Fourth
Industrial Revolution is disrupting almost every industry in every country and creating
massive change in a non-linear way at unprecedented speed. What’s the promise of the
Fourth Industrial Revolution? Indeed, one of the greatest promises of the Fourth
Industrial Revolution is to potential is to improve the quality of life for the world's
population and raise income levels. For those in First World countries who already enjoy
some of the benefits of a connected world as well as new products and services
developed to take advantage of the technologies, we appreciate the efficiencies and
conveniences provided such as booking a flight to getting movie recommendations. Our
workplaces and organizations are becoming "smarter" and more efficient as machines,
and humans start to work together, and we use connected devices to enhance our
supply chains and warehouses. The technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
might even help us better prepare for natural disasters and potentially also undo some
of the damage wrought by previous industrial revolutions. Additionally, the changes
might develop so swiftly, that even those who are ahead of the curve in terms of their
knowledge and preparation, might not be able to keep up with the ripple effects of the
changes. We need to develop leaders with the skills to manage organizations through
these dramatic shifts. As professionals, we need to embrace change and realize that
what our jobs are today might be dramatically different in the not too distant future. Our
education and training systems need to adapt to better prepare people for the flexibility
and critical thinking skills they will need in the future workplace.