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• The Good Life


  Living in a just and progressive society whose citizens have the freedom to flourish
• Human person


  Has the autonomy to make choices which may enable the flourishing of his/her self and society
• Humanity


  Mankind as a whole, sets of qualities used to define human nature and the human condition, qualities that make every person human: being kind, sympathetic, merciful, caring, cooperative, & compassionate that makes one naturally humane
• The Megashifts


  • Digitization
  • Mobilization
  • Screenification
  • Disintermediation
  • Datafication
  • Intelligization
  • Automation
  • Virtualization
  • Augmentation
  • Anticipation
  • Robotization
• The Megashifts


  • Represent new ways of being, an exponential shift in human experience which is sudden in arrival, unpredictable in outcome, interact with each other to alter human perception of time, space, creating a conscious divide between past and future
• Digitization


  Everything will become "digital"
• Mobilization


  Everything is becoming mobile, wearable, and "hearable." Computing is becoming invisible, omnipresent and indispensable.
• Screenification


  Everything that used to be physical or printed is now available on "screens."
• Disintermediation


  Middlemen are abolished because of technology; Direct interaction or selling
• Datafication


  Everything is turned into "data" that can be tracked, monitored, optimized, leading to more opportunities and challenges.
• Intelligization


  Everything that used to be "dumb" is now connected and can strategize on its own.
• Automation


  Everything can be automated as a result of smart machines.
• Virtualization


  People no longer rely on physical things but on artificially-set environment
• Augmentation


  The integration of digital information with the user's environment in real time. Users experience a real-world environment with generated perceptual information overlaid on top of it.
• Anticipation


  The use of software to anticipate human behavior, Crime prevention with the use of crime statistics, social media, mobile phone locations & traffic data, use of AI to predict & prevent crime
• Robotization


  The rise of robots to perform white-collar jobs and house chores.
• Ethical Implications of the Megashifts

  • Dehumanization
  • Human Relations
  • Work
  • Psychological/Physical Effects
  • Accuracy of Information
  • Exploitation of Inventions
  • Detachment from Nature
  • Impact on Environment
  • Technological Singularity
• Dehumanization


  Act of taking the human element out of technology by cutting human task to its bare bones and giving it to machines.
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights. Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, the Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on December 10, 1948 (General Assembly resolution 217 A) as a common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations. It sets out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected.
• Article 1: 'All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.'
• Article 2: 'Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.'
• Article 3: 'Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.'
• Article 4: 'No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.'
• Article 5: 'No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.'
• Does or can Science & Technology violate our human rights?
• Robot


  A computer-controlled machine that is programmed to move, manipulate objectives and accomplish work while interacting with its environment
• Origin of the word 'robot'

  The Czech word 'robota' meaning compulsory labor
• Robots


  • Perform work to assist people or work that humans find difficult or undesirable
  • Engineers are developing robots with dexterity and sensitivity approaching that of human hands
• Uses of Robots


  • Handling hazardous materials
  • Performing repetitive high-precision jobs 24 hours a day without fatigue
  • Spot welding, painting, machine loading, parts transfer and assembly in automobile industry
  • Mounting microchips on circuit boards in electronics assembly
  • Locating sunken ships, cleaning up nuclear waste, exploring active volcanoes and prospecting underwater mineral deposits
  • Exploring distant planets
  • Assisting surgeons in installing artificial hips and delicate operations on the human eye
  • Disabling bombs and flying unmanned aerial vehicles during military combat operations
  • Carrying machine guns fired remotely by an operator
• Impact of Robots


  • Robotic manipulations create manufactured products that are high quality and low cost
  • Robots can cause the loss of unskilled jobs particularly in factories
  • Automated factories operate with little or no human intervention
  • Automated machines will increasingly assist humans in the manufacture of new products, maintenance of the world's infrastructures and the care of houses and businesses
  • Robots will be able to make new highways, construct steel frameworks of buildings, clean underground pipelines and mow lawns
• Microelectromechanical system


  Sizes from centimeters to millimeters to move through blood vessels to deliver medicines or clean arterial blockages, and work inside large machines to diagnose impending mechanical problems
• Da Vinci Surgical System

  The only commercially available technology that can provide a surgeon with the intuitive control, range of motion, fine tissue manipulation capability and 3-D visualization characteristic of open surgery, while simultaneously allowing a surgeon to work through tiny incisions typical of minimally invasive surgery
• Da Vinci Surgical System

  • Consists of an ergonomically designed surgeon's console, a patient-side cart with four interactive robotic arms, the high-performance InSite Vision System and proprietary EndoWrist Instruments
• As machines and robots approach having a human-like nature


  Humans may also have the tendency to become machine-like
• Since many of the things people need, from conveniences to information, are available with just the touch and swipe of the fingertips, humans begin to function more like automatons
• Requirements to consider robots as moral agents

  • Significant autonomy
  • Intentional behavior
  • Position of responsibility
• Autonomy


  If the robot is not controlled directly by any other agent or user, and its autonomous action is effective in achieving its goals and tasks
• Intentionality


  The complex interaction of the robot's programming and environment causes it to act in a way that is morally harmful or beneficial, and the actions are seemingly deliberate and calculated
• Responsibility


  The robot behaves and fulfills some social role that carries with it some assumed responsibilities
• Industrial Revolutions


  • 1st: Water and steam power to mechanize production
  • 2nd: Electric power to create mass production
  • 3rd: Electronics and information technology to automate production
  • 4th: Digital revolution that is characterized by a fusion of technologies that blurs the lines between physical, digital, and biological spheres