GROUP-5

SCIENCE,TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY

 CONTENTS

CHAPTER 7: CHAPTER 8:

• HUMAN VS. ROBOT • INFORMATION

SOCIETY
 CHAPTER 7:

HUMAN VS. ROBOTS

 HUMANS VS. ROBOTS

• With the development Aritificial Intelligence (AI),robots may

also eventually act and decide like humans.
• Though the Philippines has not yet reached the point of
producing robots non commercial scale for household use, it still
behooves us to ponder the ramifications of replacing persons with
machiniries.
• As of August 2017, it is estimated that a million Filipino
BPO(business process outsourcing) workers may be affected and
lose their jobs with the adoptation of Artificial Intelligence(AI).
 ROBOTS
• A robot is an actuated mechanism programmalein two or more axes with a degree of
autonomy, moving within its environment, to perform intended tasks based on current state
and sensing without human intervention.

• A Service Robot - is a robot that performs useful task

for humans or equipment excluding industrial
automation application.

• NOTE: a robot may be classified according to its

intended application as an industrial robot or a service
robot.
 ROBOTS
• A Personal service robot or a service robot for personal use
- is a service robot used for a noncommercial task, usuall by
laypersons.

Ex. domestic servant robots, automated wheelchair, personal

mobility assist robot and pet exercising robot.

• A professional service robot or a service for personal use - is

a service robot for commercial task, usually operated by a
properly trained operators.

Ex. Cleaning robots for public places, delivery robots in offices

or hospitals, fire-fighting robots, rehabilitation robots and
surgery robot in hospitals.
 ROBOTS

• Germany was one of the first countries to develop service

robots, which was launched on October 1, 2005.

• The earliest conception of robots can be traced around 300

BC from the Egyptians. Their water clocks used human
figurines to strikes the hour bell.

• the earliest robots as people now them were created in the

early 1950s by George Devol. “ Unimate” was his first
invention from the word “Universal Automation”.
 WHY THE FUTURE DOES NOT NEED US
• According to Bill joy (1954) is an American computer scientist who cofounded sun mirosystem in 1982 and
serve as chief scientist at the company until 2003.
-His now Famous Wired Magazine essay “Why the future doesn’t need us”(2000) sets forth his deep
concerns over the development of modern technologies.

• Joy also also asserted that:

Accustomed to living with almost routine scientific breakthrough, we have yet to come to terms with the
fact that the most compelling 21st - century technologies - robotics, genetics engineering and nanotechonology –
pose a different threat than the techonologies that come before.Specifically, robots, engineered organisms, and
nanobots share a dangerous amplifying factors: They can self-replicate.A bomb is blown up only one – but one
bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.

Each of these techonologies also offers untold promise: the vision of near immortality drives us forward: genetic
engineering may soon provide treatments, if not outright cures, for more diseases: and nanotechnology and
nanomedicine can address yet more ills. Together they could significantly extend our average life span and
improve the quality of our lives. Yet, with eat of these technologies, a sequence of small, individually sensible
advances leads to an accumulate of great power and, concomitantly, great danger ( Joy.2000 ) .
 WHY THE FUTURE DOES NOT NEED US
• Human should have learned the lesson in the atomic bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945
that killed over a hundred thousand people. Brilliant physicists, led by J. Robert Oppenheimer. Brought into existence.
A deadly nuclear weapons.
• According to Heidegger (1977) propounded, it is questioning that we build ways.
• GNR today is accessible to small groups and individuals and does not require funding and facilities as huge needed by the
nuclear of mass destruction.
• Theoretical physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson, in the documentary “The Day After Trinity (1981)”.shared
his thoughts and sentiments as a scientist taking part in the development of nuclear power:

I have felt it myself. The glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible of you come to them as a scientist. To feel it’s there in your
hands, to release this energy that fuels the stars, to let it do your bidding. To perfrom these miracles, to lift a million tons of rock into the
sky. It is something that gives people an illusion of illimitable power, and it is, in some ways, responsible for all our troubles – this, what
you might call technical arrogance, that overcomes people when they see what they can do with their mincs.

• Human nature may be corrupted when the powers of our mind, our rationality, and our science and techonogy become
manifest. If we are not able to rein in the vanity and arrogance that such powers unleash, then we on the way to
destroying the world.

• According to Friedrich Nietzche, that wasteland grows, woe unto him who harbors the wasteland.
 UNIT 3
CHAPTER 8 :

SPEACIAL TOPIC OF SCIENCE,

TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY
 CHAPTER 8: INFORMATION SOCIETY
INFORMATION:
• A word – is a combination of sounds that represents something. It is this significance which makes words distinch
from just any kind of vocal utterance.
• According to (chaisson,2006, Ben-Naim,2015) the words “Imformed” because they carry “Information”.
• Words are informed with meanings given by the speaker and intenden for the listener.

THE ROLE OF LANGUAGE:

• The Scientific search for truth early on recognized that usefulness of language and the ability it gate to make sense of
nature.
• Ancient Greek, language was an objects worth for admiration world have power.
• Science, from the latin word “scire”(meaning to know) is one kind of knowledge the Greek wanted to understand.
• According to De Chardin,1965 they sought for this “Metaphusis” literally meaning “After Nature ”.
• Plato Principles of “ One and the many” refers to the underlying unity among the diverse beings in the natural
world.
• According to (BANWA Natural science,2008) in the 21st century, we are aware more than ever that there is rich
diversity in nature, which technology has allowed us to discover.
 MATHEMATICS AS THE LANGUAGE OF NATURE:
• Technology in the modern world in the fruit of science. Because the scientific method helped people discover how
nature behaoves, they were able to control nature with technology.
• A more accurate statemement is; Since people have discovered the laws and language of nature, they can develop
technology that uses laws and language for their benefits.
• The great contribution of Isaac Newton is “Mathematics”
- In mathematics, he was the original discover of the Infinitesimal Calculus.
- Newton’s Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica ( Mathematical Principles of Newton Principles,
1687) was one of the most important single works in the history of modern science.
• According to ( Wigner,1960 ) Nature can be understood because it speaks in the language of mathematics and human
brain, to a certain extent, can comprehend this language.

TECHNOLOGICAL WORLD:
• The ability to think and conceptually comprehend nature and the priciples
it follows eventually leads to science. Even in ancient times, Western
thinkers harnessed the forces of nature after understanding them better.
Lost in antiquity is the first sailing vessel that work through the power of
the wind. Similarly, it was never recorded when the early people realized
that fire has its own power and energy. Not all early inventions are lost in
time, however. Hero of Alexandria, for instance, would invent a
primitive steam engine in then first century (Davies, 1990) .
TIME PRINTING PRESS AND
BEYOND:
• The power of the eidos or idea, would be witnessed in the
succeeding centuries of development in the West. The ancient
fascination with language gave rise to the preservation of the words
of earlier people at the same time when the west weakened itself
due to internecine warfare and conflicts. Throughout this dark
period, the importance of the word –the power to be informed
as a human being –this manual action would arise the
technology that would transfoem culture –the Printing press.

• The development of printing press, which may be regarded as the

beginning of a true revolution, could be dated to the 15 th century.

• Using the printing press, people on different sides of the world

could share their thoughts and ideas with each other, forming
communities of thinkers across space and time (Connell,1958).
THE WORLD WIDE WEB:
• Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented it as a way of addressing data processing
and information sharing needs among scientists for European
Organizations for Nuclear Research (CERN).

• CERN’s atom smasher produces a huge amount of scientific data every

second. It thus required better data analyzers to work on the gather
information in coordination with each other.

• The telegraph and telephone had allowed the transmission of information

to transcend physical boundaries, processing a veritable ocean and mountain
of scientific data generated by the atom smasher needed a new medium.
• The technology applied when a sailor rigs up a piece of cloth to catch the
wind it the same one that produces modern machines and devices, albeit less
complex.

• Nevertheless, human beings have always found a way to address their needs
and discover new frontiers with scientific thinking. Considering the many
benefits we get from these technologies, we musg also be responsible in
utilizing them to avoid harming others and ourselves
 GROUP-5

MEMBERS: RODELL ORGULLIES

CASSANDRA MAE F. TUDTUD NASH S. TIQUELO

KIM IVAN SUMAGAYSAY RUDD KENNETH TAGAN

ALDRIN LIM CLARENCE POLINAR

CYRELL JOY DAMALI ROBLAN O. MALABAD