Technology is perhaps the greatest

agent of change in the modern

world.

While never without risk,

technological breakthroughs
promise innovative solutions to the
most pressing global issues of our
time.
-The adoption of technology has been so vast and
deep that our grandparents and children are
using some type of “smart” product everyday.

- In many ways, what we see/saw on sci-fi movies

is becoming a reality.

- Software programs are becoming smarter.

- Hardware and machines can interact with each
other.
• The emerging technologies will inevitably change the
world in many ways – some that are desirable and some
are not.

• Emerging technologies takes place at the extremes of

possible responses: POTENTIAL GAINS OR
POTENTIAL DANGERS.
• The real challenge lies in navigating between
these two poles:
BUILDING UNDERSTANDING AND
AWARENESS OF THE TENSIONS WE FACE
AND MAKING INFORMED DECISIONS
ABOUT HOW TO PROCEED.

• This task is becoming more pressing as

TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE DEEPENS AND
ACCELERATES.
- Also known as additive manufacturing, refers to
processes used to synthesize a three-dimensional object in
which successive layers of material are formed under
computer control to create an object.

- The first 3D printed car would be in production by 2025.

The first 3D printed liver will be implanted in 2025.
- POSITIVE IMPACT: Accelerated product
development, growth in open source plans to
print a range of products, the birth of a new
industry, rise in entrepreneurial opportunities
and environmental benefits from reduced
transportation requirements.

- NEGATIVE IMPACT: increase in waste and

further burden on the environment, job losses.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ROBOTICS
-Rapid advances in AI have revealed current governance and control
mechanisms to be at best inadequate
to meet accompanying risks.
AI development requires five building
blocks: MASSIVE DATA, AUTOMATIC
DATA TAGGING SYSTEMS, TOP
SCIENTISTS, DEFINED INDUSTRY
REQUIREMENTS AND HIGHLY
EFFICIENT COMPUTING POWER.

I believe that artificial intelligence

represents the greatest opportunity
in human history.

- Kai Fu Lee
• All of these are now tangible and available
because of the rise of the internet, mobile, big
data and computing processing capabilities in
the past 10 years.

AI should be a tool to assist humans, not replace them.

With the advent of AI, humans can finally be liberated

from mechanical tasks and devote their time to more
intellectual, creative and productive explorations.
BIOTECHNOLOGIES
- Is the use of living systems and organisms to develop or make
products, or ”any technological application that uses biological
systems”. For thousands of years, humans have used biotechnology
in agriculture, food production and medicine.
BACTERIA AND VIRUSES ARE ANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANT
THE MAIN CAUSES OF BACTERIA HAVE
POTENTIALLY LETHAL EMERGED, MOSTLY IN
INFECTIONS IN HUMANS, HOSPITALS IN
ARE BEING TRANSMITTED
DEVELOPED COUNTRIES,
FROM PATIENT TO PATIENT.
POSING A THREAT OF
MOST OF THESE GLOBAL PROPORTIONS.
MICROORGANISMS ARE
WELL KNOWN AND WELL ENTER BIOTECHNOLOGY
UNDERSTOOD AND MOST OF
THEM, BIOTECHNOLOGY BIOTECHNOLOGY
HAS YIELDED EFFECTIVE REPRESENTS THE ABILITY
TREATMENTS. TO IDENTIFY AND FIGHT
MICROSCOPIC ENEMY.
HOWEVER, THESE
MICROORGANISMS ARE
CAPABLE OF MUTATING WITHOUT THIS, WE
INTO NEW STRAINS, WHICH WOULD BE BLINDED AND
IN TURN BECOME BOUND AS WE FACE MORE
RESISTANT TO NEW SERIOUS THREATS TO
TREATMENTS. HEALTH GLOBALLY.
GEOENGINEERING
CLIMATE
ENGINEERING also
known as climate
intervention. MITIGATION –
to limit the
It is the deliberate and
large scale
magnitude or rate
intervention in the of long-term
Earths climatic system climate change.
with the aim of
limiting adverse
climate change.
CLIMATE
ENGINEERING
CARBON
DIOXIDE SOLAR
REMOVAL RADIATION
MANAGEMENT
Carbon dioxide There needs to be
should be removed a way to offset the
from the
atmosphere,
effects of
greenhouse gases
This can be done by by causing the
planting of trees, earth to absorb
bioenergy with less solar
carbon capture and radiation.
storage projects
 SOLAR
GEOENGINEERING

Blocking the suns

energy by injecting
tiny particles called
SULFATE
AEROSOLES into the
atmosphere.
NEUROTECHNOLOGY

Is any technology that has a WHAT IF?

fundamental influence on how people
understand the brain and various
aspects of consciousness, thought, and
Paralyzed people can operate
higher order activities in the brain. robotic arms and even move
their limbs when their
The field of neurotechnology has been
thoughts are channeled
around for nearly half a century but
has reached maturity in the last 20 through electronic implants.
years.
You may be able to drive a car
Brain imaging revolutionized this field.
of even fly a plane without
Has made a significant impact in using the controls. You use
society. your MIND.
SPACE
TECHNOLOGIES
In the past five (5) decades, space has been
regarded as either a dream or the future of
mankind.

Space technology is critical in our lives

nowadays.
Space capabilities provide information that
is vital for the environment, education, food
security, public health, water resource
management, human rights, disaster relief
and nuclear security.

As space increases, there is a need to protect

its assets and environment.
DID YOU KNOW?

Many modern industrial innovations have

come from the aerospace industry?

There was a need to miniaturize electronics

in the 1960s for NASAs APOLLO program.
This laid the foundations of the
microelectronics revolution and the
development of modern computers.
USING SPACE TECHNOLOGY TO
PROTECT HUMAN RIGHTS

- Human rights violators largely went

unpunished.
- In 1999, high-resolution satellite imagery
was used to uncover mass graves in Kosovo.

- Since then, there is a growing

understanding of the role of “eyes in the
sky”
Based on a time-series analysis of
eight satellite images recorded
from December 28, 2014 to May
26, 2015, Human Rights Watch
identified a total of at least 1,425
buildings likely destroyed by
forces of pro-government militias
in Tikrit and al-Bu ‘Ajil, and in al-
Dur and al-Alam in the aftermath
of the recapture of the area. Of
this total, approximately 950
buildings were likely demolished
with high explosives and a further
400 destroyed by fire.
USING SPACE TECHNOLOGY TO
PROTECT HUMAN RIGHTS

NORTH KOREA
- Used satellite imagery to observe
political prison camps in North Korea.
- There were political prisoners and
children who are victims of starvation,
torture and heinous humanitarian
abuses.