WHEN TECHNOLOGY

AND HUMANITY CROSS

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 Technology is the application of scientific knowledge,
on techniques and processes and is used mainly in industries.

It also has practical impacts on community especially

on agriculture, education, health and transportation sectors.

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ADVANTAGE OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY

 Improved communication, easy access to information and social networking

 Improved housing, lifestyles and entertainment
 Change in education
 Convenience in travelling
 Efficiency and productivity
 Initiates creativity and innovation
 Change in health industry
 Star Teak Style Tricorder
 Interoperability between Health Systems
 Roboric Nurse Assistant
 Artificial Retinas
 Advanced Prosthetics
 Remote Patient Monitoring
 Anti-aging Drugs
 Tooth Regeneration

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 ADVANTAGE OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY: Change in health industry
 Star Teak Style Tricorder - a
multifunction hand held device used
for sensor scanning, data analysis,
and recording data. It helps the
doctor detect diseases and collect
vital information about patient’s
condition.
 Interoperability between Health
Systems - creates a workflow that
allows the transfer of information
between health care facilities for
ease and accuracy of treatment of
the patients.
 Roboric Nurse Assistant - to help
nurses in lifting or moving patients
around without the danger of
causing injuries to the health care
worker
 Artificial Retinas - intended to
replace the retina of individuals
who lost their vision mainly as a
result of retinal degenerative
diseases.
 Advanced Prosthetics- neutral
control is being used to move the
prosthetics with a challenge of
creating an interphase that is
compatible to our nervous
system to prevent latency of
movement.
 Remote Patient Monitoring - a
portal device that aids in the
monitoring of all health
parameters to allow doctors to
perform diagnosis even without
visiting a clinic.
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 Anti-aging Drugs - slowing down the aging process to
reduce the burden of treating diseases such as cancer,
diabetes, and dementia.
 Tooth Regeneration - low powered laser to activate
stem cells in stimulating the growth of tooth.
 Disinfecting Light Bulb – use as visible light in health
care facilities to continuously disinfect and prevent
infection.
 Electronic Underwear Preventing Bed Sores - creates
an electric charge for the patients to activate the
muscle and blood circulation in the area every ten
minutes.
 Long Lasting Batteries -long lasting batteries with fast
charging capabilities support the needs of power
hungry devices and equipment.
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DISADVANTAGE OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY

 Job Loss and Human Displacement

 Massive Death
 Increased Loneliness
 Reduce Human Creativity and Intelligence.

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 EMERGING TECHNOLOGICAL ETHICAL DILEMMAS
 REAL TIME SURVEILLANCE IMAGERY
Satellite generated images are used to be helpful in planning for and solving humanitarian
problems, solve crimes and disaster risk reduction but if these data would reach the hands of
potential leftist this might clearly violate the privacy of human life.

 COLONIZING MARS , AN ASTRONAUT BIOETHICS

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and a private company , Mars
One worked together for a space mission to colonize the planet Mars. In 2018, Mars One is
planning to launch a robotic mission to Mars and by 2025,four humans will be sent on a one
way mission with the goal of establishing the first community outside earth.

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 EMERGING TECHNOLOGICAL ETHICAL DILEMMAS
 WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY
Companies around the globe have developed several wearable technologies to suit
human behavior and activities.

 STATE SPONSORED HACKTIVISM AND SOFT WAR

Soft war is an unarmed force using cyber war and hacktivism with the aim of transforming
cultural values and identities of the society to achieve political ends. The use of cyber attacks
in any government agency could be a big problem.

 ENHANCED PATHOOGENS
Researches about the gain of function of known diseases such as influenza, Severe Acute
Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) have been
suspended in the United States because of biosafety concern.

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EMERGING TECHNOLOGICAL ETHICAL DILEMMAS
 NON LETHAL WEAPONS
Non lethal weapons are not designed to kill but they remain to be an emerging ethical and policy
dilemma. Examples are laser missiles, blinding weapons, pain rays, sonic weapons, electric weapons,
heat rays, disabling malodorants, as well as gases and sprays.

 ROBOT SWARMS
Some researchers in Harvard University developed kilo bots, a group of robots capable of
communicating with each other and perform simple tasks that do not require any human intervention.
The risk of this technology is the tendency of these robots to malfunction and cause harm and
accidents.
 ARTIFICIAL LIFE FORMS
An emerging field of science known as synthetic biology is focused on the custom building of
synthetic life forms by introducing synthetic DNA to an existing organisms. This raises concern, on the
ethics and policy issues of this biological breakthroughs.

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EMERGING TECHNOLOGICAL ETHICAL DILEMMAS
 RESILIENT SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
The need to build resilience both in the social and ecological systems of each nation
is necessary most especially in facing societal problems brought about by poverty,
economic globalization and natural phenomena such as climate change and natural
disasters.

 BRAIN TO BRAIN INTERFACES

This would direct communication from one brain to another without the use of
speech but using an encephalography machine that detects brain activity in the sender
and a trans cranial magnetic stimulation coil that controls movement in the receiver
thereby performing the act as directed by the sender.

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Ilagan, Yolanda A., Et.al. When Technology and Humanity Cross. 2018

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Prepared by : Ms. Angel Pacia