STAS2

• Christian Lou's Lange: '"Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master"'
• Artificial Intelligence


  Simulation of human intelligence in machines that are programmed to think like humans and mimic their actions
• Skills


  • Writing, chatting, etc.
• Google


  Uses algorithm to show us best results
• Technology is a double-edged sword, like most human beings, involving gain and loss, also merit and demerit
• Technology links us to those far away, but confuses us from those that are close, and hospital save lives, but takes them to the battlegrounds
• Most of all, technology is a choice. We use it for our own reasons
• The true value of technology is NOT ABOUT REPLACING HUMAN EXPERIENCE, BUT MITIGATE ITS DEFICIENCIES
• Technological development


  • Provided human history with a kind of directionality
  • As technology advances, it hacks the characteristics of every situation over and over again
• Age of automation


  The age of "Do it yourself"
• Material standard of living

  • Several achievements of modern society draws through the idea of life is getting better
  • The average citizen lives more easily now than kings did centuries ago
• Reduced death


  • Fewer people die in accidents, epidemics and murders
  • A number of social evils have been decreased, such as poverty, inequality, ignorance and oppression
• A recent statement of this view can be found in "its getting better all the time." by Moore and Simon (2000.)
• Evolutionary view


  • Society is seen as a human tool that is gradually perfected
  • The idea that we can progress society by 'social engineering' is part of this belief and forms the ideological foundation of many major contemporary institutions such as the welfare state, and development aid organizations
• Humans are evolving because of technology
• Caused by wearable technologies
• Reduced suffering


  • This is a traditional religious view of earthly life as a phase of penance awaiting paradise in the afterlife breaks the knowledge of life is getting better
  • It deem the possibility to reduce suffering by creating a better world and societal development seem to head in that way, be with some ups and downs
• Medicines induce selective forgetting, to induce mental illness, and such
• Contemporary social problems


  • Deviant behavior, such as criminality, drug use, and school refusal
  • Social conflicts, labor disputes, ethnic troubles, and political terrorism
• Contemporary social problems


  • Identity theft, cyberbullying, hacking, etc.
• Progress paradox


  • The decline of the influence of the church, family and local community are also seen to deprive the quality of life of modern people
  • A recent statement of this view is found in Easterbrook (2003) "The Progress Paradox."
• And-degrade 'yung morale
• Society drifting away from human nature

  • Society has changed a lot, while human nature has not
  • Not a piece of equipment but rather an uncontrollable force that presses human into a way of life that does not really fit them in society view
• The idea that life is getting poorer fits a long tradition of social criticism and apocalyptic prophecies. In this view, paradise is lost and doubtful to be restored.