When Technology and Humanity Cross

• Technology


  Comes from the Greek word techne and logos, meaning art and word. It means a discourse on arts.
• The concept of technology was only used to talk about the arts, specifically applied arts


  17th century
• Technology


  Concepts like machine and tools were also attached to the word which is the more popular sense of the concept nowadays
• Several technological devices can be easily found inside the home, the most accessible place
• These technological devices are some of the most popular and most commonly used types of devices across all age groups
• People worldwide use these technologies every day to accomplish different purposes
• Television


  92% of urban homes and 70% of rural homes in the Philippines own at least one television set
• In the Philippines, the current count of households with television sets already reached 15.135 million
• Television


  A product of different experiments by various people
• Paul Gottlieb Nipkow


  • A German student in the late 1800s who was successful in sending images through wires with the aid of rotating disk, called "electric telescope" that had 18 lines of resolution
• Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton and Boris Rosing

  • In 1907, they created a new system of television by using cathode ray tube in addition to the mechanical scanner system
• Mobile phones


  Have a very interesting background story
• Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola, made the world's first mobile phone call


  April 3, 1973
• First mobile phone


  • Weighed 1.1 kilograms, measured 228.6 x 127 x 44.4 mm, capable of 30 minute talk time, took 10 hours to charge
• Motorola made their first commercial mobile phone available to public, known as the Motorola DynaTAC800x


  1983
• Computers


  Charles Babbage, a 19th century English Mathematics professor and inventor, is credited with having conceived the first automatic digital computer
• Generations of computers


  • Each generation was used for certain period of time and each gave people a new and improved version of the previous one
• First true portable computer


  The Osborne 1, released in April 1981
• A typical household owns at least four of the following devices: mobile phones (89%), tablet (14%), desktop (39%), laptop (37%), television (4%)
• Mobile phone subscription is at 119 million in the Philippines
• Filipinos spend approximately 3.2 hours on mobile and 5.2 hours on desktop daily
• The Philippines has one of the highest digital populations in the world
• There are now 47 million active Facebook accounts in the Philippines
• The Philippines is the fastest growing application market in Southeast Asia
• Roles played by technological advancements

  • Television: Advertisements and information dissemination, Recreational activity and good stress reliever, Good platform for different propagandas and advocacies, Good way to bond with one's family members
  • Mobile phones: Communication, Surf the internet, Take pictures, Other applications like music player, calendar, radio and among others
• Ethical dilemmas faced by technological advancements

  • People who develop different kinds of sickness because of too much use of technological devices
  • The people in the scientific world nor the children are blameworthy because the children are not yet capable of rationally deciding for themselves what is good and what is bad, and even the creators of these technologies went out their way to inform children of the pros and cons of these technological contributions, it would still be useless because the children have no capacity to understand them yet
• Robots


  Another great product of the innovative minds of the people, now widely used
• Service robots


  Robots that perform useful tasks for humans or equipment excluding industrial automation applications
• Personal service robot


  A robot used for a noncommercial task, usually by laypersons
• Professional service robot


  A robot used for a commercial task, usually operated by a properly trained operator
• Germany was one of the first countries to develop service robots
• Roles played by robotics


  • Used to ease the workload of mankind, To make life more efficient and less stressful, To entertain people
• Laws of robotics


  Formulated by Isaac Asimov in the 1940s: A robot may not inquire a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First law; A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the first and second law
• Ethical dilemmas faced by robotics

  • Safety, Emotional component, Partial autonomy includes active human-robot interaction, Full autonomy excludes active human-robot interaction
• Television


  A product of different experiments by various people
• Paul Gottlieb Nipkow


  • German student in the late 1800s, successful in sending images through wires with the aid of rotating disk
  • Invention called "electric telescope" that had 18 lines of resolution
• Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton and Boris Rosing

  • In 1907, created a new system of television by using cathode ray tube in addition to the mechanical scanner system
• Mechanical and electronic television


  Two types of television systems that arose from the success story
• Mobile phones


  Have a very interesting background story
• Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola, made the world's first mobile phone call


  April 3, 1973