STAS: Why Does The Future Not Need Us ?

Question 1

simulation of human intelligence in machines
that are programmed to think like humans
and mimic their actions.

Answer 1

Artificial Intelligence

Question 2

is a double-edged sword, like most human beings involving gain and loss, also merit and demerit

Answer 2

technology

Question 3

it links us to those far away, but confess us from those that are close, and hospitals save lives, but takes them time the battlegrounds

Answer 3

technology

Question 4

(t or f)
Technology is a choice. We use it for our own reasons

Answer 4

true

Question 5

(t or f)

But most significantly, what makes us
incomparably better off is technology but, in the
end, the true value of technology is NOT ABOUT
REPLACING HUMAN EXPERIENCE BUT
MITIGATE ITS DEFICIENCIES.

Answer 5

true

Question 6

is taking place at an ever
increasing rate.
• One of the issues in this current debate is
the quality-of-life in modern society.
• Progress optimist have confidence in that
we live better now than earlier
generations, while pessimists question
that life is getting worse.

Answer 6

social change

Question 7

(t or f)

 Human history with a kind of directionality was provided
by technological development.

Answer 7

true

Question 8

(t or f)

 As technology advances, it hacks the characteristics of
every situation over and over again. The age of
automation is going to be the age of “ Do it yourself. “

Answer 8

true

Question 9

Several achievements of modern society draws through the idea of life is getting better. One is the
unparalleled rise in the material standard of
living; the average citizen lives more easily now
than kings did centuries ago.

Answer 9

Material Standard of Living

Question 10

fewer people die in accidents, epidemics and murders. A number of social evils have been decreased, such as poverty, inequality, ignorance and oppression.

Answer 10

Untimely death is reduced

Question 11

This view of development is typically part of an evolutionary view, in which society is seen as a human tool that is gradually perfected. This idea established during the enlightenment period (18th century).

Answer 11

Improvement in Evolutionary View

Question 12

is part of this belief and forms the ideological
foundation of many major contemporary institutions such as the welfare state, and development aid organizations.

Answer 12

social
engineering

Question 13

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.

Answer 13

Reduced Suffering

Question 14

One of the kind problems is deviant behavior, such as criminality, drug use, and school refusal. Another group of problems seen to lessen the quality of life such as social conflicts, labor disputes, ethnic troubles, and political terrorism.

Answer 14

Contemporary Social Problems

Question 15

(t or f)

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.”

Answer 15

true

Question 16

This view of deterioration is
often part of the idea of society
drifting away from human nature,
because 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.

Answer 16

Society drifting away from
Human Nature

Question 17

(t or f)

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

Answer 17

true

Question 18

(t or f)
If modernization makes society less livable, we should
try to stop the process, or atleast to slow it down.
Conservatives have a strong point in this case and can convincingly argue for restorative policies.
However, if modernization tends to improve the quality-of-life, we better go along, which would rather fit the liberal political agenda.

Answer 18

true

Question 19

(t or f)

There are several attempts to explain the
society collapse. This includes the following
words; Gibbons’ classic Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire also Joseph Tainter’s Collapse of
Complex Societies, and Jared Diamond’s more
recent Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or
Succeed.

Answer 19

true

Question 20

notes that
societies need to protect certain
resources such as food, energy,
and natural resources in order to
sustain their populations.

Answer 20

Tainter (1990)

Question 21

said that In their attempts to solve this
supply problem ,societies may
grow in complexity in the form of
bureaucracy, infrastructure, social
class distinction, military
operations, and colonies.

Answer 21

Tainter (1990)

Question 22

says that many
past cases of societal collapse
have elaborate environmental
factors such as deforestation and
habitat destruction, soil problems,
water management problems,
overhunting, and overfishing, the
effects of introduced species,
human population growth, and
increased per-capita impact of
people.

Answer 22

Jared Diamond

Question 23

(t or f)

Four new factors that may contribute to the collapse of present and future societies was also suggested by
Diamond such as human-caused climate change, build-up toxic chemicals in the environment, energy shortages, and the full utilization of the Earth’s photosynthetic capacity.

Answer 23

true

Question 24

Individual societies can collapse, but this is
doubtful to have a determining effect on the future
of humanity if other advanced societies survive
and take up where the failed societies left off. All
historical cases of collapse have been of this kind.

Answer 24

Local Societal Collapse

Question 25

We suppose new kinds of threat (e.g. nuclear holocaust or catastrophic changes in the global environment) or the trend towards globalization increased interdependence of different parts of the world and create a vulnerability to human civilization as a whole.

Answer 25

Global Societal Collapse

Question 26

is the static view. It would imply that we have just arrived at the final human condition even at a time when change is exceptionally fast.

Answer 26

Implausible

Question 27

would also imply a radical break with numerous trends A. If the economy of the world continues to raise at the same pace as in the last half century, at that time of 2050 the world will be seven times richer than it is today. B. Population of the world is predicted to increase over 9 billion in 2050, so usual wealth would also increase vividly

Answer 27

static view

Question 28

surroundings will constitute an increasing fraction of our experience.

Answer 28

virtual reality

Question 29

(t or f) Among the most significant potential growth are ones that would enable us to alter our biology directly through technological means

Answer 29

true

Question 30

could make it progressively feasible for users to shape themselves into the kind of people they want to be by correcting their personality, emotional character, mental energy, romantic attachments, and moral character.

Answer 30

Drugs and other neuro technologies

Question 31

is additional potential revolutionary technology

Answer 31

Machine intelligence

Question 32

The idea of technological singularity tied specifically to artificial intelligence and stated. “Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly thereafter, the human era will be ended”

Answer 32

Prediction of Artificial Intelligence

Question 33

is really transforming the human experience, helping people to achieve things that wound have only been previously dreamt in fiction, thought some of the new inventions should potentially stay there.

Answer 33

Technology

Question 34

(t or f) • the new Pandora’s boxes of genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics are almost open, yet we seem hardly to have noticed. • Churchill remarked, in a famous left-handed compliment, that the American people and their leader “invariably do the right things, after they have examined every other alternative”

Answer 34

true

Question 35

according to him there are four future scenarios for the humanity and technology

Answer 35

Nick Bostrom (2004),

Question 36

A clarification of what has been referred to as “___________________” is overdue.

Answer 36

post human condition

Question 37

(t or f) • The four families of scenarios we have considered such as extinction, recurrent, collapse, plateau, and post humanity, it could be controlled by varying the period over hypothesized. • A few hundred years or a few thousand years might already be plenty time for the scenarios to have an opportunity to play themselves out.

Answer 37

true

Question 38

They notice first is that the longer the time scale it is likely technological civilization will remain within the zone we termed “___________________” throughout.

Answer 38

the human condition

Question 39

• The scenarios presented reveals how “______________” is among all the possible levels of organismic and technological development.

Answer 39

the human condition

Question 40

• The “________________” will reveal a much of the larger picture.

Answer 40

the human condition

Question 41

if ________________________ are put in the best uses, it further inspires the development in related and non-related areas but at the same time its negative use can create havoc in the humanity or the world.

Answer 41

technological advancements

Question 42

has and will, change the moral fabric of humanity; it is up to the present generation to heed this warning and not allow such societal travesties of immense proportion ever to occur again.

Answer 42

technology

Question 43

will continue to advance rapidly as we move into the next millennium

Answer 43

technological advancements