When Technology and

Humanity Cross

Reporter: Richelyn L. Navales

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1. The different technological advancements in society.

2. Development of Science and Technology in the

Philippines.

3. Effects of the interplay between technology and

humanity through the dilemmas we face.
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TECHNOLOGY

Technology
The application of scientific
knowledge to the practical aims of
human life or, as it is sometimes
phrased, to the change and
manipulation of the human
environment.
● Came from the Greek words
“Techne” which means art and
“Logos” which means word.
● Discourse on arts ( Buchanan,
2010)
● First appeared in the seventeenth
century.
● Concepts like machines and tools
were also attached to the word
“technology”
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Television sets, Mobile Phones,
Computers, and Humanity
 Television Sets
Television – ultimate medium for advertisement placements (The manila
time, 2014)

Kantar media– one of the most trusted television audience measurement

providers, in the Philippines, 92 percent of urban homes and 70 percent of
rural homes own at least one television set.

- reported that in the Philippines, the current count of

households with television sets already reached 15.135 million (Noda,
2012)
 Product of different experiments by various
people
Paul Gottlieb Nipkow
A german student, in the 1800s, was
successful in his attempt to send images
through the wires with the aid of a
rotating metal disk. This invention
called“Electric telescope” that had 18
lines of resolution.
Alan Arcibald Campbell-Swinton &
Boris Rosing
In 1907, two inventors who were
English and Russian scientists
created a new system of television
by using the “Cathode ray tube”
in addition to the mechanical
scanner system.
 Electric telescope Cathode ray tube

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 Two types of Television
Mechanical Television
is a television system that relies on a
mechanical scanning device, such as a
rotating disk with holes in it or a
rotating mirror drum, to scan the scene
and generate the video signal, and a
similar mechanical device at the
receiver to display the picture.
Electronic Television
a system for transmitting visual
images and sound that are reproduced
on screens, chiefly used to broadcast
programs for entertainment,
information, and education.
 Mobile Phones
● A mobile phone is a wireless handheld device that allows users to make
and receive calls. While the earliest generation of mobile phones could
only make and receive calls, today’s mobile phones do a lot more,
accommodating web browsers, games, cameras, video players, and
navigational systems.

● Also known as “cell phones” or cellular phones, today’s mobile phones

are more commonly called “smartphones” because of all the extra voice
and data services they offer.
● 2012 – global research agency Synovate conducted a survey and declared 67
percent product ownership in the country.

● Ipsos Media Atlas Philippines Nationwide Urban (2011-2012) - showed that

one in every three Filipinos really loves to use their mobile phones. In other
words, 30 percent of the Philippine urban population said that mobile phones are
necessities in life ( Roa, 2012).

● On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper – a senior engineer at Motorola, made the

world’s first mobile phone call. The mobile phone used by Cooper weighed 1.1
kilograms and measured 228 x 127 x 44.4 mm. This kind of device was capable
of a 30 minute talk time, and it took 10 hours to charge.

● 1983 – Motorola made their first commercial mobile phone to the public, known
as the “Motorola DynaTAC 8000x (Goodwin, 2016)
 Computers and Laptops
● A laptop or notebook computer is a small, portable personal computer (PC) with a
screen and alphanumeric keyboard.

In 2010 – 3.6 trillion estimated total output of all manufacturing establishments. To be

more specific, 5.4 percent of the total value output came from computers and peripheral
equipment and accessories ( PSA, 2013).

Charles Babbage – nineteenth-century English mathematics professor, who designed

the Analytical Engine which was used as the basic framework of computers even until
the present time.

April 1981 – release of the first true portable computer and it was called the “Osborne
1” (Orfano, 2011)
 Analytical Engine Osborne 1

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 A typical household owns at least four of the
following devices:

4% 14% 37% 39% 53% 89%

Smart TV Tablet Laptop/ desktop Smartphone Mobile Phone

netbooks
 Some facts about Filipinos and their use of gadgets and
the Internet (Rappler, n.d.) :

• Mobile phone subscription is at 119 million

• Filipinos spend approximately 3.2 hours on mobile and 5.2
hours on desktop daily.
• Currently, the Philippines has one of the highest digital
populations in the world.
• There are now 47 million active Facebook accounts in the
Philippines.
• The Philippines is the fastest-growing application market in
Southeast Asia.
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Roles played
.
by These
Technological Advancements
 Television Sets, Mobile Phones,
Computer/Laptop

● These technological advancements have different functions and roles

played in the lives of people, although some may be a little similar.
These roles have become so essential that people, more specifically
Filipinos, developed a strong inclination toward technology and its
products.
04 Ethical Dilemma Faced by These
Technological Advancements
 Dilemma 1 Dilemma 2

Moral Dilemma
Parents argue that these devices make
their children lazy and unhealthy.
05
Robotic
and humanity
 ROBOTS
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Another great product of the innovative

minds of the people is the “robot”

• (IFR) International Federation of Robotics

• (UNECE) United Nations Economic Commission
for Europe

... Made it their task to formulate a working

definition for service robots.
 A preliminary extract of the relevant definition is (IFR, 2012) :

Robot Personal service Professional service

Service Robot
robot/service robot for robot /service robot for
personal use professional use

A service robot used for a

An actuated mechanism
programmable in two or more
axes with a degree of
autonomy, moving within its
environment, to perform the
intended task.
Performs useful tasks for A service robot used for a
noncommercial task, usually by
humans or equipment commercial task, usually
lay persons.
excluding industrial operated by a properly trained
automation applications. operator.
 Service robot for personal use

Service robot for

professional use
More about Robots
One of the first countries to develop
Germany - service robots.

3000 B.C. Egyptians - Traced the earliest

conception of robots.

Created the earliest robots in the early

George Devol - 1950s. “Unimate” was his first invention
from the words “Universal Automation”
 Roles played by robotics
Isaac Asimov - Formulated the laws for robotics back in the 1940s, when he was thinking of the
ethical consequences of robots.

Law One: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to
harm.

Law Two: A robot must obey the orders given by human beings except where such orders
would conflict with the First Law.

Law Three: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with
the First or Second Law.
Thank you,
God bless!