By Logan Juffs
Technology Will Destroy the World and Us
Overview
• Examples why
technology is going
to be the end
• Reasoning behind
the examples
• YouTube Videos
• Sources
• Advancements in weaponry
• Advancements in smart technology
• Television
• Advancements in medicine
• Social networking
• The knowledge of technology
• Robotics
Examples
Advancements in Weaponry
• Advancements creates new ways for people to harm and kill each other
• We have enough advancement in weaponry so that we could destroy the human race over and over again
• In the pursuit of finding resources for survival we end up killing people that get in others ways
Reasoning
Advancements in Weaponry
• Causes more harm then good, even though developers say that the weapons save lives in the long run
• Other religions don’t have the same beliefs as others do and when it comes down to can cause people to kill others
• We have bio-weapons that can lead to destruction of towns, cities and even a country, its just a matter of time till someone has had enough of another
Reasoning
Advancement in medicine
• Longer living people will cause pensions to be increased and could lead to no benefits and pensions for up coming generations
• Will cause the population of the world to increase causing more recourses to be used
• Health care would experience longer waits in emergency rooms
Reasoning
Advancement in Medicine
• Certain surgeries would go untouched for days because of increase of patient volumes
• With new medicine coming to the market scientists need people to test these drugs and could lead to death or other harmful side effects
Reasoning
Social Networking
• Anyone can put anything they want on these sites and could be miss leading to others
• Make people want to live there lives online
• People spend more time on these sites then they do with other people, leading to isolation
• Some people on these websites are not who they appear to be which could lead to abductions and pedophiles
Reasoning
Social Networking
• Online bullying is happening more and more because of these technologies
Reasoning
Advancements in Robotics
• Humans will be eventually be replaced everywhere which will make us lazy and jobless
• Within medicine robotics are taking over jobs of surgeons because of precision
• Because of precision of applications and speed robotics have taken most of jobs in the industry sector
Reasoning
Advancements in Robotics
• Robotics will eventually take over jobs within other sectors causing poverty levels across the world to rise
• Corporations are taking robots over people do to there speed, precision and cost less overall then people do
Reasoning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cztwt4e4Myw
• Oak, M. (2011, September 22). Pros and cons of artificial intelligence. Retrieved from http://www.buzzle.com/articles/pros-and-cons-of-artificial-intelligence.html
• Social Networking. (n.d.). Are social networking sites good for our society. Retrieved from http://socialnetworking.procon.org/
• Resistor. (2009, August 13). 10 reasons technology will be our downfall. Retrieved from http://purpleslinky.com/offbeat/10-reasons-technology-will-be-our-downfall/
YouTube Videos & References