Science, Technology and Society: (MIDTERM Lesson 1-5)

SCIENCE,
TECHNOLOGY
AND SOCIETY
(MIDTERM Lesson 1-5)
LESSON
5
Diagnostics
Instructions: Look at the picture. Do you think that there will come a time in the future that will no longer
need humans? Write your brief opinion on the space provided.
As humans become more innovative, there is a big

possibility that they are already innovating robotics
technology. Is there a time in the future that will
no longer need humans? Robots can make things
way easier. Hence, without humans’ robots won’t
function in a clean state. Humans and robots
should help each other in the future.
Exercise 1 Metacognitive Reading Report

Instructions: Read William Nelson Joy's Why the future doesn't need us? htttp://www.wired.com/2000104/
7oy.amv/itrm then complete the metacognitive reading report.
1. Difficult Concepts
a. Luddite
b. Gray goo
c. Unabomber Manifesto and Murphy’s Law
2. Learning Insights
a. Before Reading the article, I thought that the title was about terminating all of the humans because we
give harm to the environment too much that we are no longer needed in the future.
However, after reading the article, I now think/learned that the future doesn’t need us anymore
because robots and the advancement of technology can easily do our jobs and replace us with much
more efficiency.
b. Before Reading the article, I thought that humans will either be the top of the food chain or the greatest
being ever to rule over the earth and other animals.
However, after reading the article, I now think/learned that our future remains unpredictable and full
of surprises. Perhaps robots are one of the many future enemies of mankind. In one of the worst things
that could happen, possible threats to human dominance would be aliens or living creatures that have
yet to be uncovered with advanced technology and robotic systems.
c. Before Reading the article, I thought that advance technologies could help us human in the future.
However, after reading the article, I now think/learned that yes, they can help us but it can also lead to
possible human extinction.
3. Discussion Questions
a. What will be the effect to the plants, and animals if the future won’t have any human race? Will advance
technologies be a help so that the Planet Earth will be healed since there are no trace of humans that
harming our environment?
b. If we know that human extinction would be possible, shouldn’t the intelligent people be doing
something now to prevent it from happening?
c. Is still there a possibility to go back from the past? A past with not much technology in it?
Exercise 2 Film Viewing

Instructions: watch Steven Spielberg's science fiction drama film, A.1: Artificial Intelligence (2001). After
watching the film, reflect on the story of David, a childlike android uniquely programmed with the ability to
love, and write a 200-300-word essay on the topic, "Why does the future need us?" Cite particular scenes and
insights from the movie to support your arguments. Make a title for your essay.
The Future Doesn’t Need All of Us
The movie, A.1: Artificial Intelligence (2001) is new to me despite of the year it was filmed. A.I. The
film is shot with a robot, a childlike android specially equipped with the ability to love. A robot boy designed
to feel human emotions is currently working on a journey of discovery.
As I watch the film, I’ve had questions running around in my head. Such as, the humans were able to
accept advance technologies like the advance style or designs on cars, but why not on robots? If they can
normalize different advance technologies in the future, why don’t they normalize the robots?
The question “Why does the future need us?” shouldn’t be all about humans. The future needs humans
who will be willing to accept technological advances in the future. There is a scene in the film that some
people were so happy to destroy the robots. Just because those robots don’t feel emotions, they got to be
destroyed for the show. But since David plead to not to be destroyed, he was released. The other people who
were at the show threw the packs to the head of the show and gave him hate from all of its viewers instead of
throwing the packs to the robots (David and Joe). The future needs people like them, the viewers of the Flesh
Fair.
Another example of human’s brutality to the robots was when the group of kids were not able to
accept the differences of David. Those kids provoke David leading to David and Martin fell to the pool and
Martin being drowned under the water. This scene led to Monica and Henry to give David back to the
company he was made, cybertronics. But Monica cannot bring herself to return David to Cybertronics. She
pauses on the way and releases him into a forest, where he can join other free-range mechas.
Does the future need humans? Yes, because when time comes that the world will be invaded by aliens,
they will still need humans to know what happened in the past. In the movie, for 2,000 years, as above them
an ice age descends and humans become extinct. David was rescued by a group of impossibly slender beings
that might be aliens, but are apparently very advanced androids. For them, David is an incalculable treasure:
"He is the last who knew humans.” With the memories of David, he had in the past, the aliens were able to
download all of the memories David has.
In conclusion, the future needs us because of our past, but apart from that there is no need for humans
in the future. However, the Earth doesn’t need us. Earth lived for a very long time even without humans. So,
the earth would still survive without the presence of humans. We are the ones that need Earth or a world like
Earth, so that we can live and continue to exist.

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What are the main points discussed in the reading?

What are some of the difficult concepts mentioned?

SCIENCE,

As humans become more innovative, there is a big

Exercise 1 Metacognitive Reading Report

Exercise 2 Film Viewing

The Future Doesn’t Need All of Us

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