Why the Future Does Not Need Us — Transcript

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1. 0:04let's continue the discussion with a
2. 0:05topic why the future does not need us
3. 0:08for this topic we're going to evaluate
4. 0:10contemporary human experience to
5. 0:13strengthen the human person functioning
6. 0:15in society we're going to discuss the
7. 0:17importance of human rights in the face
8. 0:19of changing social conditions and
9. 0:21technological development
10. 0:24the former chief scientist and corporate
11. 0:26executive officer of sun microsystems
12. 0:28william nelson bill joy wrote an essay
13. 0:31entitled why the future doesn't need us
14. 0:34the implied message in his essay is that
15. 0:37with the rate and direction our
16. 0:38technology is growing and developing
17. 0:41time will come when humans will become
18. 0:42unnecessary and machines will be able to
19. 0:45do the activities without humans
20. 0:48according to him our most powerful 21st
21. 0:50century technologies such as robotics
22. 0:53genetic engineering and nanotech are
23. 0:56threatening to make humans an endangered
24. 0:58species
25. 0:59genetics is the branch of biology that
26. 1:01deals with the study of genes genetic
27. 1:04variation and heredity in organisms it
28. 1:07deals with our dna chromosomes and the
29. 1:09genetic
30. 1:10materials on the other hand
31. 1:13nanotechnology is the field of research
32. 1:15and innovation concerned with building
33. 1:17objects in the nano scale and when i say
34. 1:20nano scale there is one billionth of a
35. 1:22meter
36. 1:24robotics on the other hand is a branch
37. 1:26of engineering that involves a
38. 1:28conception design manufacture and
39. 1:31operation of robots this is actually
40. 1:33overlapping with electronics computer
41. 1:35science artificial intelligence
42. 1:38mechatronics nanotechnology and
43. 1:40bioengineering
44. 1:42with genetics nanotechnology and
45. 1:45robotics being accessible to small
46. 1:47groups with little and less funding it
47. 1:50makes it prone to accidents and abuses
48. 1:52with this kind of scenario there would
49. 1:54be less of a balance and check with the
50. 1:57use of this genetic engineering
51. 1:59nanotechnology and robotics
52. 2:02because of this advancement in
53. 2:04development in technology there is what
54. 2:06we call the rise of the machines
55. 2:08the rise of the machines may render
56. 2:10humans useless
57. 2:11the manual labor will be gradually
58. 2:13replaced by machinery and the computers
59. 2:16will become more sophisticated
60. 2:18also with the development of artificial
61. 2:20intelligence or ei the robots that will
62. 2:23be created may eventually act and decide
63. 2:25like humans
64. 2:26the main issue or question is
65. 2:29can we prevent a future with machines as
66. 2:31masters
67. 2:32also
68. 2:33what dimension should we examine
69. 2:36in terms of these dimensions we have to
70. 2:39look at the societal benefit the
71. 2:41potential job displacement or basically
72. 2:43the unemployment the degree of
73. 2:45collaboration among humans being
74. 2:47fostered as well as the impact of these
75. 2:50robotics to the global climate
76. 2:52in terms of societal benefits the
77. 2:54automation and mechanization of work
78. 2:57will lead to consistency of processes
79. 3:00which later on will reduce the labor
80. 3:01expenses
81. 3:03also this will lead to consistency of
82. 3:05outputs thus we're going to have better
83. 3:08predictability of the quality of
84. 3:10products or services
85. 3:12with the growing application of robotics
86. 3:15and with technology becoming more
87. 3:16complicated and sophisticated
88. 3:18new categories of jobs arise to succeed
89. 3:21in these upcoming events or situations
90. 3:24we need to change how we innovate in
91. 3:26other words we need to learn new skills
92. 3:29to be able to become competent but the
93. 3:32problem is how about our rights
94. 3:34according to article 23 of the universal
95. 3:36declaration of human rights everyone has
96. 3:39a right to work to free choice of
97. 3:41employment to adjust and favorable
98. 3:43conditions of work and protection
99. 3:45against unemployment
100. 3:47but if for going to be replaced by these
101. 3:49robots in the future then how about this
102. 3:52right
103. 3:53so the question is
104. 3:54how do we protect our human rights in
105. 3:56the face of technological advancement
106. 3:58and ethical dilemmas