Technology Will Destroy Our

Planet

Name: Victoria

Ekpene.

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Objectives

To unveil what scientist are saying on the ills of technology to

planet earth.

Point out the aspect of the world’s technological innovations

negatively impacting the world.

Make people aware of the dangers of "technology“: originally

fashioned for good courses.

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Introduction

Technology has helped us create our

own processed environment of roads,

cars, buildings, foods, pharmaceutical

and medical resolutions that are

significantly advantageous to the life of

man. It has also lead us to innovations

like: guns, nuclear bombs, poisons and

medical practices like human cloning,

development of artificial intelligence,

sex change and indiscriminate abortion.

This ever advancing technology is

clearly seen to be very destructive to

man and has caused man to hardly have

any connection with the natural world

anymore (Folisi, 2009).

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According to renown scientist -

Prof Stephen Hawking, "The

development of full artificial

intelligence could spell the end

of the human race." (Cellan-

Jones, 2014). He went ahead to

explain that the negative

impact technological

innovations will have in the

world will be huge in future

projected years

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Impacts Of Technology

Social Isolation – People have no time to get to know each other anymore

but at every spare time keep their ears and eyes occupied, listening to music,

watching videos or browsing on their iPods, iPads or android phones. In a

bad way, technology has changed the way humans relate/socialize. It has

caused us to lack proper communication skills; losing the benefits of person

to person communication (Chrimbchin, 2007).

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Machines taking the jobs of humans. Techno-replacement was

speculated about 50 years ago and today we see quick take-over of

blue-collar jobs by robots. This is a direct contributor to growing

unemployment (Dormehl, 2014).

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Loss of lives through accidents: air-plane crashes, road accidents, rail

accidents is on the increase. Deaths through medical technology mistakes

has an annual record of up to 400,000 lives yearly (McCann, 2015).

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Obesity – Indoor video games

is now the order of the day. It

has replaced the outdoor

physical games that enhance

body metabolism and healthy

living (Preidt, 2012).

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Negative impact on the younger generation who started their lives

with computers and all new technologies. We now have a

generation who are getting more and more unable to calculate

simple figures without the aid of technological devices (Kim,

2012)

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Nuclear power stations: a threat to

the world, terrorists are targeting to

take advantage of (Harris, et al 1998).

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Not only are we creating unmanageable amounts of rubbish here on earth, but there is a build-up of debris outside of our atmosphere called space junk. Space junk consists of abandoned satellites and rockets and is estimated to contain around a million pieces, all travelling unbelievably fast around the earth (Marshal 2013).

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Much the same way that a wifi system

works by transmitting radio signals to

a receiver, so wireless power means

that chargers and wires could become

a thing of the past. Soon you will be

able to zap power to your gadgets

without the need for any leads. But

would you feel safe walking into an

"electricity hotspot"? (Marshal 2013).

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3D printers aren't just for the nice things in life, or for ripping off big firms' intellectual property. Defense Distributed wants to use them to make the world's first "Wiki Weapon", a fully functional, 3D-printed gun that means governments "must one day operate on the assumption that any and every citizen has near instant access to a firearm through the internet". Because if there's one thing the world really needs today, it's more guns (Marshal 2013).

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Robot doctors are already here, and they're helping humans rather than zooming around the place stabbing us to smithereens. According to Popular Mechanics, the Da Vinci robot surgeon has "almost 2,500 units worldwide performing over 200,000 procedures per year". Robot surgeons are more accurate, leave smaller scars and are much less likely to leave their watch inside a patient than real surgeons, and recovery time is shorter too. Systems such as Da Vinci aren't fully autonomous, but that's the long-term goal - and robots don't just want to do the stabby bits. IBM's Watson is being trained to analyse symptoms and provide accurate diagnoses. We hope it's more accurate than Google: whenever we google any symptom whatsoever we end up convinced we've got cancer (Marshal 2013).

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As the world deals with the Conficker worm, which has already

spread itself onto an estimated nine million computers around the

world, doom-mongers like to consider what a super worm could do.

If a super worm infected every computer in the world and switched

them off, effectively it could send humanity back to the 1970s and

cause global disorder

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