Why does the future does not need us?

• Rapid advances in science and technology foreshadow a world that can displace some forms of human labor.
• No one can predict the future. The key variable in understanding the future is rarely technology alone, but how humans use it, perceive it, and adapt to it.
• C.S.Lewis: 'Humanity, so –called power over nature "turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument'. He feared that modernism and its ability to explain away everything but "nature "would leave us emptied of humanity. All that would be left is our animal instincts.'
• The choice we have is to see humanity as a complex combination of both material and spiritual components or else to be reduced to machines made of meat ruled by other machines with nothing other than natural impulses to guide them.
• C.S.Lewis warned us of a society that has explained away every mystery, and the danger of what he calls "man-molders which will be armed with the powers of an Omni-competent state and irresistible scientific technique.
• Three possible scenarios for the near future according to Francis Fukuyama

  • Genetically enhanced intelligence or the prospect of living longer lives free from genetic disease
  • Advance in stem cell research might soon allow us to regenerate any tissue in the body
  • The widespread use of psychotropic drugs like Prozac and Ritalin that can make everyone happy without the side effects of the drugs
• As technological capabilities grow, they results in countless means to accomplish tasks than ever before. The more dependent we become on technology, the more it conforms our behavior to its requirements rather than vice versa.
• William Gibson, who coined the term "cyberspace", has said the 'the future is here"- it's just not evenly distributed". Some of the important changes in the future will come not from a new technology, but from a large number of people having access to something that already exists.
• Genetic engineering


  The process by which an organisms' genetic material is altered or manipulated so that the organism will have specific characteristics
• Applications of genetic engineering

  • Research
  • Medicine
  • Industrial biotechnology
  • Agriculture
• Robotics


  An interdisciplinary research area at the interface of computer science and engineering. It involves the conception, design, manufacture and operation of robots.
• Characteristics of Robots

  • Mechanical construction
  • Electrical components that control and power the machinery
• Types of Robots

  • Pre-Programmed Robots
  • Humanoid robots
  • Autonomous Robots
  • Teleoperated Robots
  • Augmenting Robots
• Nanotechnology


  The study and manipulation of atomic or molecular scale to improve or even revolutionize many technology and industry sectors
• Artificial Intelligence


  Refers to "machines" that respond to stimulation consistent with traditional responds from human, given the capacity for contemplation, judgement and intention
• Alan Turing established the fundamental goal and vision of artificial intelligence. It is the attempt to replicate or simulate human intelligence in machines.
• Approaches to Artificial Intelligence

  • Thinking rationally
  • Thinking humanly
  • Acting rationally
  • Acting humanly
• Symbolic (or top-down) approach in AI


  Seeks to replicate intelligence by analyzing cognition independent of the biological structure of the brain in terms of the processing of symbolic label
• Connectionist (bottom-up) approach in AI

  Involves creating artificial neural networks in imitation of the brain's structure
• Potential Risks to Society

  • Devaluation of humanity
  • Decrease in demand of human labor
  • High costs of creation
  • Ethical issues
  • Social isolation
  • Environmental Problems
• Emerging Technologies that will shape our Future


  • Electric/ self-driving cars
  • Robot butlers
  • Flying cars
  • Space tourism
  • Colonization of other planets
  • Wearable screens
  • 3D printed Food and Metal
  • 5G-6G connectivity
  • Re-engineering and Recycling
  • High-rise farms
  • Lab-grown meats
  • Robot soldiers
  • Roads over rivers and seas
  • Holography
  • Body implants prosthesis
• Post-humanity


  A theory/ concept that is of an advance level of technological or economic development that would involve a radical change in the human condition, whether the change was brought by biological enhancement or other cause
• Acronyms

  • GNR- Genetics ,Nanotechnology and Robotics
  • KMD- knowledge and enabled mass destruction
  • WMD- Weapon of Mass Destruction
  • NBC- Nuclear, Biological and Chemical