WHY DOES THE FUTURE NOT NEED US

• Lewis argued that humanity, so –called power overnature “turns out to be a power exercised by some menover other men with Nature as its instrument’.
• nature “would leave us emptied of humanity. All that would be left is our animal instincts.
• Jacques Ellul warns that as technological capabilities grow,they results in countless means to accomplish tasks than everbefore.
• William Gibson, who coined the term “cyberspace”, has said the‘the future is here”- it’s just not evenly distributed”
• Genetic engineering- process by which organism genetic material is altered or manipulated
• Industrial biotechnology - can be simply defined as the exploitation of enzymes, microorganisms, and plants to produce energy, industrial chemicals and consumer goods.
• Robotics - an interdiciplinary research area at the interface of computer science and engineering
• Robotics- involves the conception, design, manufacture and operation of robots
• Pre-programmed robots- operate in a controlled environment where they do simple, monotous tasks
• Humanoid robots- robots that look like human
• Autonomous robots - operate independetly of human operators
• Teleoperated robots- mechanical bots controlled by human
• augmented robots- enhance current human capabilities or replace the capabilies a human may have lost
• collaborative robots or cobots,( intended for direct human robot interaction within shared space)
• construction robots ( robotic arm and robotic exoskeleton)
• military robots ( to search, rescue and attack)
• industrial robots ( IBM keyboard manufacturing factory inTexas)
• agricultural robots ( closely linked to the concept of AI-assisted precision agriculture and drone usage)
• medical robots ( da Vinci Surgical System and Hospi)
• kitchen automation ( Rotimatic, flatbreads baking, Frobot, frozen yogurts)
• Robot combat for sport, domestic robots ( Roomba vacuums the carpets)
• swarm robotics (disaster rescue missions, target localization and tracking, simultaneous localization and mapping, cooperativeenvironment monitoring and convoy protection).
• nanotechnology - study and manipulation of atomic or molecular scale to improve or even revolutionize many tech
• artificial intelligence- refers to machines that respond to stimuli and learn from experience
• Alan Turing - established the fundamental goal and vision of AI
• Norvig and Russel - defined AI in 4 approaches: thinking rationally, thinking humanly, acting rationally and acting humanly