WHEN TECHNOLOGY AND

HUMANITIES CROSS
Lesson 2 ( chapter 4 )
LESSON OBJECTIVES:

At the end of this lesson, the student should

be able to :
 Know the different technological
advancement in society.
 Discuss the development of science and
technology in the Philippines.
 Discuss the effects of the interplay between
technology and humanity through the
INTRODUCTION

 The ever growing society has made people see

technology as some form of necessity.
 Technology comes from the Greek word “ techne “
and “ logos” which means art and word.
 Technology means a discourse on arts.
 It appeared in the 17th century where the concept
was only used to talk about arts, specifically arts.
 Concepts like machine and tools were also attached
to the word “technology” which more popular sense
of the concepts nowadays.
TELEVISION SETS, MOBILE PHONES,
COMPUTERS AND HUMANITY

 A numbers of technological devices can be easily

found inside the home, the most accessible place to
anyone.
 It can also be easily interred that these
technological devises are some of the most popular
and most commonly used types of devices across all
age groups.
 People all over the world use these technologies
everyday to accomplish different purposes.
TELEVISION
 A product of different experiments by various of
people.
 Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, a German student, in the late
1800s was successful in his attempts to send
images through wires with the aid of rotating disk.
 This invention was called “electric telescope” that
had 18 lines of resolution.
 In 1907, two inventors, Alan Archibald Campbell-
Swinton who was an English scientist and Boris
MOBILE PHONES

 Mobile phones have a very interesting background

story.
 On April 3, 1973 Martin Cooper, a senior engineer of
Motorola, made the worlds first mobile phone call.
 The mobile phone used by Cooper weighed 1.1
kilograms and 228.6x127x44.mm.
 This kind of device was capable of 30 minute talk
time.
 However, it took 10 hours to charge.
 In 1983, Motorola made their commercial mobile
COMPUTERS AND
LAPTOPS
 It was Charles Babbage, a 19th century English
mathematician professor who designed the
Analytical Engine which was used as the basic
framework of the computers even until the present
time.
 In general, computer can be classified in three
generations.
 Each generation of the computer was used for a
certain period of time and each gave people a new
and improved version of the previous one (Seitz
n.d).
 A typical household owns at least four of the
following devices a mobile phone(89%),
Smartphones(53%) ,Tablet(14%), Laptop
netbooks(37%), and Smart TV (4%). (Philstar,2013).
 These data prove the deep seated fascination of
Filipinos to different technological devices.
HERE ARE SOME FACTS ABOUT
FILIPINOS AND THEIR USE OF GADGETS
AND INTERNET.
 Mobile phones subscription is at 119 million.
 Filipinos spend apptoximatelyb3.2 hours on
mobile and 5.2 hours on desktop daily.
 Currently, 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 the Southeast Asia.
 ROLES PLAYED BY THESE
TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT

TELEVISION
 Advertisement and information dissemination
 Recreational activity and good stress reliever
 Good platform for different propaganda and
advocacies
 Good way to bond
 ROLES PLAYED BY THESE
TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT

MOBILES PHONES
 Communication
 Surf the internet
 Take pictures
 Other application like music player, calendar,
radio and among others.
 ROLES PLAYED BY THESE
TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT

PERSONAL COMPUTER AND LAPTOPS

 Surf the internet and communications
 Use for job
 Play games
 Watch movies etc.
 ETHICAL DILEMMA FACED BY THESE
TECHNOLOGICAL
ADVANCEMENTS
 Most parents would argue that these devices make their children lazy and
unhealthy.
 Moral dilemma
1. First dilemma, people develop different kinds of sickness of too much use
of technological gadgets.
2. Second dilemma, the people in the scientific world nor the children are
blame worthy because first, the children are not yet capable of rationally
deciding for themselves what is good an what is bad. Second even the
creators of these technologies went out of their way to inform children of
the pros and cons of these technological contribution, it would still be
useless because the children have no capacity to understand them yet.
3. It was the recklessness and overconfidence of the adults that cause the
character change in the children.
 ROBOTIC AND
HUMANITY
 Another great product of the innovative minds of
the people is the robot.
 Robot are now widely used. Ex. These are so called
service robots. These particular robots do specific
task but focus mainly in assisting their master in
their everyday tasks.
 The International Federation of Robotics (IFR) and
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
(UNECE) made it their task to formulate a working
definition for service robots.
A PRELIMINARY EXTRACT OF THE
RELEVANT DEFINITION IS (IFR, 2012)
 A robot is actuated mechanism programmable in two or more axes, with
a degree of autonomy, moving within its environment, to perform
intended tasks.
 A service robot is a robot that performs useful tasks for humans or
equipment excluding industrial automation application.
 A personal service robot or a service robot for personal use is a robot
used for a non commercial task, usually by layperson. Ex. Domestic
servant robot, automated wheelchair, personal mobility assist robot, and
pet exercising robot.
 A personal service robot or a service robot for professional use is a robot
use for commercial task, usually operated by a properly trained operator.
Ex. Cleaning robot for public places, delivery robot in offices or hospitals,
fire fighting robot, rehabilitation robot, and surgery robot in hospitals.
 Germany was one of the first countries to
develop service robots.
 As part of the German Federal Military of
Education and Research’s . “ Service Robotics
Innovation Lead Initiative “, it sponsored
collaborative project called DESIRE (Deutsche
Servicerobotik Initiative-Germany Service
Robotics Initiative) which was launched on
October 1, 2005.
 DESIRE HAS HE FOLLOWING
INDIVIDUAL OBJECTIVES:
 To achieve a technological edge toward attaining key
functions and components that are suited for everyday
use.
 To create a reference architecture for mobile
manipulations.
 To promote convergence of technologies through
integration into a common technology platform.
 To conduct pre-competition research and development
activities for the new products and technology transfer
in start-up enterprises in the field of service robotics.
 SOME OF THE EXPECTED
WORK TO BE PERFORMED BY
DESIRE ARE THE FF:

“ CLEAR UP THE TABLE TABLE ”

“ FILL THE DISHWASHER “
“ CLEAR UP THIS ROOM “
 ROLES PLAYED BY ROBOTICS

 Used to ese the workload of mankind

 To make life more efficient and less stressful
 To entertain people
 Just like people living in the society, robots also have their own
set of rules and characteristics that define what a good robot is.
 Theses law were formulated by Isaac Asimov back in the 1940’s ,
when he was thinking of the ethical consequences of the robot.
 These are the following :
1. Law one : a robot may not injure a human being or, through
inaction , allow human being to come to harm.
2. Law two: a robot must obey the orders given it by human being
except where such orders would conflict with the first law.
3. Law three: a robot must protect its own existence as long as
such protection does not conflict with the First and Second law.
ETHICAL DILEMMA/S FACED BY
ROBOTICS

 Safety
Emotional component.
 Partial autonomy includes active human-robot
interaction.
 Full autonomy excludes active human-robot
interaction.
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