STAS 4

Cards (28)

  • David Mattin: 'The idea that new technologies can liberate us from the human condition is a fantasy. In reality, the 21st-cenntury will be all too human.'
  • Humanity
    A virtue associated with basic ethics of altruism derived from human condition (wikipedia)
  • Humanity
    According to Confucius, humanity is a "love of people", if you want to make a stand, help others make a stand
  • Today, in the era of present technology, robotics has become a big part of our collective lives
  • Robots are utilized for their knowledge, exactness and interminable vitality to perform assignments consistently and profitably, that when performed by people tends to create flaws
  • AI robots have already started an enormous job in improving waste administration and finding distinctive approaches to handle the waste issue endured by most developing nations like India
  • Technology has crept into every corner of our lives, form obsessive texting to checking emails more often
  • Most of us absorb three times more information everyday compared with 50 years ago
  • According to University of California researchers, we spend 12 hours in front of TV and computers at home
  • Multitasking participants had more difficulty filtering out irrelevant information than those focusing on one task at a time
  • Teens are emotionally more vulnerable to the effects of rampant texting and online sharing
  • According to a 2010 Nielsin survey, we send and receive text messages 3, 339 times a month
  • Extinction
    An estimated 99% of all species that ever existed on earth are already extinct
  • There are different ways in which human species could become extinct: Primarily, by transforming or evolving into one or more species or by merely dying out without any replacement or continuation
  • Nowadays, one of the utmost extinction risks arise from human activity
  • Advances in biotechnology might make it possible to design new viruses that combine the easy contagion and mutability of the influenza virus. A dreadful pandemic with high virulence and 100% mortality rate among infected individuals could possibly will terminate human species
  • An all-out nuclear war between Russia and the United States might be an example of a global catastrophe that would be unlikely to result in extinction
  • Recurrent Collapse
    This means that the human condition will reach a kind of statis, either instantly or after undergoing one or more cycles of collapse regeneration
  • Human civilization may endure catastrophes that prevent it from moving beyond a certain level of advancement
  • It also requires a carefully calibrated homeostatic mechanism that possesses the level of civilization restricted within a relatively narrow interval
  • Plateau
    Human civilization may reach a level of technological advancement beyond which no further advancement is feasible
  • Predictions that life span can be greatly increased have depended in part on the apparent decelerations and plateaus
  • Post humanity
    People have developed significantly different cognitive abilities, population sizes, body types, sensory or emotional experiences or life expectancies
  • Post humanity
    Post humanity has established itself as a label for a form of human existence radically transformed by the most advanced medical techniques and by the use of biotechnology and nanotechnology for human enhancement
  • Humanity
    From the latin word "humanitas" which means "human nature, kindness"
  • Humanity
    the human race, which includes everybody on earth
  • Humanity
    It's also a word for the qualities that make us human, such as that ability to love and have compassion, be creative and not be a robot or alien
  • "Soft war" is a concept used to explain rights and duties of is urgent even terrorists during armed struggle