S. Romi Mukherjee (Senior Lecturer, Political Human rights are rights to sustainability.

Theory & History of Religions) - "Seeks to place

a concern for human rights at the heart of how
the international community engages with
urgent global challenges. The UN Development
Programme characterizes this approach as one
that 'leads to better and more sustainable
outcomes by analyzing and addressing the
inequalities, discriminatory practices and unjust
power relations which are often at the heart of
development problems..."
 Government and other stakeholders are
required to craft and implement science
and technology policies that ensure
safety, health and livelihoods; include
people's needs and priorities in
development and environmental
strategies; and ensure they participate
in decision-making that affects their
lives and resources.
Can you imagine a future without the human
race? END OF THE WORLD
THE FUTURE DOES NOT NEED US!
HUMANS VS ROBOTS
 The rise of machines accompanying the
progress in science and technology may
render humans useless.
 Manual labor is gradually being
replaced by machinery.
UNEMPLOYMENT
 Is the value of the person inversely
proportional to that of a machine
exhibiting artificial intelligence?
 How do we guard against mistakes
committed by machines?

UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

(ARTICLE 27) TOWARDS ETHICAL TREATMENT FOR
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Affirms everyone's right to participate in and
benefit from scientific advances, and be  Humans are in danger of becoming less
protected from scientific misuses. The right to so.
the benefits of science comes under the domain  Is the Google making us stupid? Nicolas
of 'culture,' so it is usually examined from a Carr (2008)
cultural rights perspective.
We rely to computers to mediate our
UNESCO RECOMMENDATION ON THE STATUS understanding of the world; it is our intelligence
OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHERS - 1974 (ARTICLE 4) that flattens into artificial intelligence.

Affirms that all advances in scientific and INFORMATION AGE

technological knowledge should solely be
 Humans are surrounded on all sides by
geared towards the welfare of the global
technology claiming to supply
citizens, and calls upon member states to
information.
develop necessary protocol and policies to
 Do they provide information or just
monitor and secure this objective. Countries are
noise?
asked to show that S&T are integrated into
 How can we be sure that they share
policies...
knowledge and the truth?
UNESCO DECLARATION USE OF SCIENTIFIC
A word is a combination of sounds that
KNOWLEDGE - 1999 (ARTICLE 33)
represents something. Words are made up of
"... All levels of government and private sector sounds and yet they transmit a message.
should provide enhanced support for building
A speaker can use the same word(s) over and
up an adequate and evenly distributed scientific
over again to talk to thousands of people
and technological capacity through appropriate
separately yet the same message will be
education and research programs as an
received by them. Words cross boundaries
indispensable foundation for development..."
without reducing their meaning.
 Human rights should guide humans to
The power of eidos or idea. The power to be
flourish as individual members of the
informed as a human being --- led to the
society but also to assist each other in
transmission of ideas through hand-copying.
flourishing collectively as a society.
PRINTING PRESS can source from nature biological
resources such as food, medicine and
 Knowledge should be shared and more.
communicated among humans. People
on different sides of the world could
share their thoughts and ideas with
each other, forming communities of
thinkers across.

JOHANNES GUTENBERG

 This was a result of finding a way to

improve the manual, tedious and slow
printing methods.
 The printing press made the mass
production of books made books
accessible not only to the upper class.
 The transmission of ideas has
undergone changes; by its electronic
platform. It is a direct offspring of the
progressing world of technology.

WORLD WIDE WEB

TIM BERNERS-LEE

 To address data processing and

information sharing needs among
scientists for the European Organization
for Nuclear Research (CERN).
 Anyone with connection to other
people can produce contents which are
showing half-truths or even lies, giving
lies to disinformation.
 The easy access to personal information
makes one susceptible to online
predation, identity theft, and scamming,
among others.

DATA PRIVACY ACT OF 2012

The information age, which progressed from

the invention of the printing press to the
development of numerous social media
platforms, innovations can be advantageous or
disadvantageous depending on the use of these
technologies.

BIODIVERSITY

 Variety of life present in an ecosystem.

It is important in how society benefits
from it. There are three different types
of biodiversity: genetic, specific and
ecological diversity.
 Society benefits greatly from the
richness of biodiversity since humans