THE GOOD LIFE

by: Mona Tañedo

 LEARNING OUTCOMES
1. Explain the concept of the good life.
2. Define the good life in their own words; and
3. Examine shared concerns that make-up the good life with
innovative and creative solutions to contemporary issues
guided by ethical standards.
•People have different ideas
of what constitutes the good
life.
•Wrong pursuits may lead to
tragic consequences.
•Correct pursuits may lead to
flourishing.
“ Happiness as loving one's life and
valuing it in ways manifested by
sufficient enjoyment and robust
sense of meaning.
Achieving happiness and man's
own desire and needs commonly
gives essence for living a good life.
In particular, moral decency and
goodness, authenticity, mental
health, self-fulfillments, and
meaningfulness describes it .”

MARTIN (2012)
“ Every human being aspires to live a good life.
Conversely, man's idea of “good life” differs in
many dimensions.”

DOTSON (2012)
ARISTOTLE (NICOMACHEAN ETHICS 2:2)

1.Happiness is the ultimate end of

human action.
2.Good life as a life of relationships.
3.Essence of happiness is to achieve
well-being and experience good life.
NICOMACHEAN ETHICS AND MODERN
CONCEPTS
Eudaimonia-
Eu-good, daimon- spirit= good life
Good life- happiness and virtue
Virtue- intellectual and moral
GOLDEN RULE
•Confucius: What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to
others.
•Aristotle: We should behave to others as we wish others to
behave to us
•Buddhism: Hurt not others with that which pains thyself.
•Christianity: Do unto others as you would have them do unto
you.
SCHOOL OF THOUGHT
MATERIALISM
A form of philosophical monism
which holds that matter is the
fundamental substance in nature,
and that all things, including mental
aspects and consciousness are
results of material interactions.
HEDONISM
Is a school of thought that argues
that the pursuit of pleasure and
intrinsic goods are the primary
or most important goals of
human life.
STOICISM
- school of thought led by
Epicurus.
- to generate happiness, one
must learn to distance oneself
and be apathetic.
THEISM
The ultimate basis of happiness
is the communication with God
HUMANISM
•A school of thought espouses
the freedom of man to carve his
own destiny and to legislate his
own laws, free from the shackles
of a God that monitors and
controls.
 “GOOD”
Is commonly used
interchangeably with
the term “RIGHT”
 Explained that the
adjectives good and right
are related in meaning,
but are not synonyms.
It makes no sense to
speak of a “right person”
when we mean a “good
person; or the right action
as a meaning for good
action.
HOW WE CAN DIFFERENTIATE
THE TWO TERMS THEN?
Taking the right action means correctly
applying a norm, premise, presupposition,
rule, standard, or law. This explains that the
term “right” reasons are being used to justify
the principle and its application.

Right Action compels DUTY

fulfilling duties and RIGHT ACTION

upholding rights. RIGHTS

 Being good involves having the character and
personal qualities that were justified by reason as
having moral worth.
TRAER 2007

refer to an individuals own

principles regarding and
.
 Being good entails
nurturing character and
fostering relationship

CHARACTER
BEING GOOD

RELATIONSHIPS
It acknowledges the fact that human being is endowed
with his own rational mind and FREE WILL.
TIMBREZA (2008) as elucidated by GRIPALDO (2013)

Explained that in natural ethician's view,

“good is that which is suitable to and proper
for human nature. Whenever it is not proper
for human nature, it is bad and must
avoided”
ACTING RIGHTLY means doing the right thing
based on the voice of conscience, otherwise,
feeling of guilt, self-reproach, and remorse will be
felt. It follows that a person, as a human being,
has his own consciousness, of function, survival,
and means of having the life he envisioned.

Thus, considering the aspect of human being

nature, the term “good” denotes a more objective
meaning of “a state or way of being.”
The meaning of this term up to present
times remains vague.
Wise men of the past argued with
nature and prerequisites of the good
life.
Similarly, questions such as “Is a
meaningful life also a happy one?”
and “Is living with happiness
means living a good life?” are still
part of the debates even of the
philosophers.
“The unexamined life is not worth
living for”, the idea of worthwhile
living should be filtered with
experience and vice versa.”

SOCRATES
Further elucidated the idea of relating
the essence of happiness to
achieving well-being and
experiencing good life.

Happiness is the ultimate end of

human action.
Good life as a life of relationships.
Essence of happiness is to achieve
well-being and experience good life.

ARISTOTLE
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

An existentialist philosopher, also has a different

view on the aspect of life. He dealt more on how we
live an “authentic life” rather dealing with the “good
life”. For Heidegger, living an authentic life means
living with deep acceptance on the facticity of
“death” and resulting to a “life lived according to
what it has clearly decided as its meaning and
purpose”.
 CAN
TECHNOLOGY
EVENTUALLY
EXTINGUISH
HUMANITY?
No one can deny that fact that SCIENCE and
TECHNOLOGY has a PROFOUND impact on how
modern man thinks and appreciates matter. It can be
concretely seen in the present conditions of man in the
society. The desire to feel satisfaction of research and
development through genetic engineering, cloning and the
likes opened endless doors for skeptics.
On the other hand, man's varied ethical
foundations may also differentiate the idea of
good life. Some may define it through attaining
pleasure (hedonism); others may relate it to
peace of mind through minimizing desires and
passions (stoicism) and some views are based on
professing moderate pleasure, which for them,
“anything that is taken in excess is bad”
(epicureanism)

(TIMBREZA, 2013)
“What good life is?”
Remains a question for everyone.
HUMAN
FLOURISHING
by: Mona Tañedo
 ❑1. Understand the concept
of human flourishing;
❑2. Analyze human
UNIT flourishing in relation to the
LEARNING
OUTCOMES: progress of science and
technology; and
❑3. Conceptualize own views
on human flourishing.
LOGO QUIZ
Science and technology has changed human
landscape.
Man tends to show unlimited contentment-
eager to seek better replacement for anything
that performs the functions of man.
Robots, machines and other technologies are
intended to enhance human condition, or in the
future, replace the human functions in the
society.
Smith (2012) shared that, we can’t turn to science
for an answer because in the first place, science
identified human being from another creature.
This intellect supports self-consciousness
and awareness sufficient for the achievement of
human’s function, discovery of truth, and
development and mankind.
What is the meaning of
human-being?
According to Heidegger, it was originally the
fundamental question of philosophy, which was
pursued by the ancient Greek philosophers but
later on neglected, if not forgotten, in Western
philosophy.
 Heidegger is not convinced with the reason used to
justify such neglect the self-evidence, universality, and
indefinability of the concept of being. (Mabaquiao, n.d.)
Furthermore, he argued that asking for the
meaning of the term ”being” doesn’t suggest that the
“inquirer” has no idea about it because in the first place,
the meaning of “being” is associated with the concept of
existence, which means that the “inquirer” already has
the idea on the term “however vague or incomplete”. The
“inquirer” obviously refers to “man” as “being”, focuses to
the “what” of human existence.
This somehow justifies human being’s adaptability
to environmental changes and ability to manipulate
environment in the interest of survival.
Dasein
Conversely, Heidegger used the term
“dasein” which literally means “being there”
focuses on the “mode of existence” or the “who”
of “Dasein”. The “modes of existence” is
fundamentally established by two things:
1. Dasein exist in a world
2. Dasein has a self that it defines as it exist in
such world. (Mabaquiao, n.d)
Hence this support human being’s
capacity to decide on what is good
or bad for them.
Understanding Human Flourishing
It has been discussed that human
being is endowed with innate abilities
and characteristics that let him sustain
his function and to survive in the given
environment.
 Human flourishing is defined as an endeavor to
achieve self-actualization and fulfillment within the
context of a larger community of individuals. This
also means access to the pleasant life, the engaged
or good life and the meaningful life.
(Seligman, Steen, Park and Peterson, 2005),
stated that human flourishing requires the
development of attributes and social and personal
levels that exhibit character strengths and virtues
that are commonly agreed across different cultures.
Aristotle’s viewpoint
Aristotle’s teachings suggest that each man’s life
has a purpose and that the function of one’s life is to
attain that purpose.
For Aristotle, happiness (earthly) is the highest
desire and ambition of all human beings.
And to achieve it, one must cultivate the highest
virtues within oneself. Aristotle believed that human
beings have a natural desire and capacity to know and
understand the truth, to pursue moral excellence, and to
instantiate their ideals in the world through action.
Furthermore, these actions are geared towards
one’s proper and desired end-flourishing, happiness or
eudemenia.
 According to Aristotle, there is an end of all
the actions that we perform which we desire for
itself. Flourishing is the greatest good of human
endeavors and that toward which all actions aim.
The good is what is good for purposeful and goal-
directed entities. He presented the various
popular conceptions of the best life for human
beings;

(1) a philosophical life,

(2) A life of pleasure and
(3) a life of political activity.
WHAT IS EUDOMENIA

meaning “the state of having good indwelling spirit; a

good genius”.
Eudaimonia (also known as Eudaemonism) is a Greek
word, which refers to state of having a good indwelling
spirit of being in a contented state of being healthy, happy
and prosperous.
In moral philosophy, eudaimonia is used to refer to
the right actions as those that result in the well-being of
an individual.
EPICURUS’S
VIEWPOINT
Epicurus (born 341 B.C) was a Greek
philosopher who contradicted the metaphysical
philosophers.
He believed that balance and temperature
were created space for happiness.
His view is not more of how happiness can
be defined but more on theory about the real
source to experience it.
 Socrates believed that virtues such as self-
control, justice, courage, wisdom, piety and
related qualities of mind and soul are absolutely
crucial if a person is to lead a good and happy life.
Virtues guarantee a happy life Eudaimonia
Plato, Eudaimonia depends on virtue (arête)
which is depicted as the most crucial and the
dominant constituent of eudaimonia.
Pyrrho, founder of Pyrrhonism, a school of
philosophical skepticism that places the
attainment of ataraxia (a state of equanimity) as a
way to achieve Eudaimonia. Pyrrhonist practice is
for the purpose of achieving epoch.
Nietzsche’s viewpoint
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was a German
philosopher and cultural critic who published intensively in
the 1870s and 1880s.
He is known for his criticisms on psychological
analyses that resulted to opposing ideas on the people’s
received ideas.
As expected, Nietzsche viewed happiness in a different
way. For him happiness is an “ideal state of laziness”.
Laziness for him is described as to not have any
worries or distress in life.
FLOURISHING
Philosophers’ views are the evidence of objective
sense of how it means to flourish.
It accepts that man’s ultimate desire of living is to
flourish and to experience a life of well-being (life that
goes well for him).
Flourishing can either be based on the state of mind
(e.g mental habit) or a kind of value (e.g insights, outlook).
Science Technology and
Human Flourishing
Advances and continuous technological growth
are the results of intensified and application of
scientific knowledge to deliver progress in the society.
Scientific applications continuously provide
convenience to human lives. But also because of
scientific applications progress become problematic,
ethical or even legal concerns.
 HUMAN FLOURISHING
IN SCIENCE AND
by: Mona Tañedo
TECHNOLOGY
 UNIT EXPECTED OUTCOMES
❑1. Understand the concept of human flourishing;
❑2. Analyze human flourishing in relation to the
progress of science and technology; and
❑3. Conceptualize own views on human
flourishing.
PHILOSOPHY
•The study of general and fundamental
problems concerning matters such as
existence, knowledge, values, reason,
mind and language
SELECTED VIEW ON
TECHNOLOGY
ARISTOTELIANISM
To Aristotle , technology is the organizing of
techniques in order to meet the demand that
is being posed by humans.
Aristotle’s four causes
1. Causa Materialis or the Material Cause
(-material)
2. Causa Formalis or the Formal Cause
(-form or shape)
3. Causa Efficiens or the Efficient Cause
(-agent)
4. Cuasa Finalis or the Final Cause
(-end or purpose)
TECHNOLOGICAL
PESSIMISM
Jacques Ellul (1912-1994)
•The four laws of technological progress
1. all technical progress has its price.
2. at each stage it raises more and greater
problems than it solves.
3. its harmful effects are inseparable from its
beneficial effects.
4. it has a great number of unforeseen effects.
1. The appearances of humans and their computers
2. Technological progress creates more problems
3. Technological progress creates damaging effects
4.Technological progress creates unpredictable
devastating effects
TECHNOLOGICAL
OPTIMISM
•This view is strongly supported by
technologists and engineers and also
by ordinary people who believe that
technology can alleviate all the
difficulties and provide solutions for
problems that may come.
EXISTENTIALISM
•The main concern of this view is the
existence or the mode of being of
someone or something which is
governed by the norm of authenticity.
Martin Heidegger (1889-1996)
on science and technology

•He examined the two usual definitions of

technology:
TECHNOLOGY AS A REVEALING WAY
1. means to an end (instrumental)
2. a human activity (anthropological)
ENFRAMING
Gathering of the setting-upon
challenges to bring the concealed to
unconcealment.
Basically putting in order whatever is
presented to the man who sets upon the
unconcealed
 ENFRAMING:
way of revealing in modern technology
•Calculative thinking
- One orders and puts a system to nature so it can be
understood better and controlled
•Meditative thinking
- One lets nature reveal itself to him/ her without
forcing it.
UNIT EXPECTED OUTCOMES

Evaluate contemporary human

experience to strengthen and enlighten
the human person functioning in society

Evaluate the impact of Technology on

humans and society.
Experience of human in technology? Where we are
now? Wearable technology, sensors all over the
place, We have now the power to monitor, just
about everything, giving it to these new trends.
• Human interests on technology allows them to expand the
range of human experiences.
• These are qualified experiences and what’s more, they can
share these experiences with other human beings, injecting
technology into their lives, thus, the future of technology is
based on HOW THE HUMAN WILL USE IT.
• But most significantly, what makes us
incomparably better off is technology but, in the
end, the true value of technology is NOT ABOUT
REPLACING HUMAN EXPERIENCE BUT
MITIGATE ITS DEFICIENCIES.
 •

Is this societal progress a change for the

better? There always been controversy over
this question, and presently the
disagreement seems more intense than ever,
possibly for the reason that we are more
conscious today that society is making.
 Technology and
Humanity: A Positive
Side
➢ Human history with a kind of directionality was
provided by technological development.

➢ As technology advances, it hacks the

characteristics of every situation repeatedly. The
age of automation is going to be the age of “ Do it
yourself. “
The Positive View

• Material Standard of Living – Several

achievements of modern society draws through
the idea of life is getting better. One is the
unparalleled rise in the material standard of
living; the average citizen lives more easily now
than kings did centuries ago.
• Untimely death is reduced – fewer people die in
accidents, epidemics and murders. A number of
social evils have been decreased, such as poverty,
inequality, ignorance and oppression.
• A recent statement of this view can be found in
“its getting better all the time.” by Moore and
Simon (2000.)
 Improvement in Evolutionary
View
• This view of development is typically part of an
evolutionary view, in which society is seen as a human tool
that is gradually perfected. This idea established during
the enlightenment period (18th century).
• The idea that we can progress society by ‘social
engineering’ is part of this belief and forms the ideological
foundation of many major contemporary institutions such
as the welfare state, and development aid organizations.
• Reduced Suffering - This is a traditional
religious view of earthly life as a phase of penance
awaiting paradise in the afterlife breaks the
knowledge of life is getting better.

• It deem the possibility to reduce suffering by

creating a better world and societal development
seem to head in that way, be with some ups and
downs.
 The Negative View
• Contemporary Social Problems - One of the kind
problems is deviant behavior, such as criminality, drug
use, and school refusal. Another group of problems seen
to lessen the quality of life such as social conflicts, labor
disputes, ethnic troubles, and political terrorism.
• The decline of the influence of the church, family and
local community are also seen to deprive the quality of life
of modern people. A recent statement of this view is found
in Easterbrook (2003) “The Progress Paradox.”
• Society drifting away from
Human Nature –

This view of deterioration is

often part of the idea of society
drifting away from human nature,
because society has changed a lot,
while human nature has not. Not a
piece of equipment but rather an
uncontrollable force that presses
human into a way of life that does
not really fit them in society view.
• The idea that life is getting poorer fits a
long tradition of social criticism and
apocalyptic prophecies. In this view,
paradise is lost and doubtful to be
restored.
 Relevance of the Issue

If modernization makes society less livable, we should

try to stop the process, or atleast to slow it down.
Conservatives have a strong point in this case and can
convincingly argue for restorative policies.
However, if modernization tends to improve the quality-
of-life, we better go along, which would rather fit the liberal
political agenda.
 Societal Collapse
There are several attempts to explain the
society collapse. This includes the following
words; Gibbons’ classic Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire also Joseph Tainter’s Collapse of
Complex Societies, and Jared Diamond’s more
recent Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail
or Succeed.
Tainter (1990), notes that
societies need to protect certain
resources such as food, energy,
and natural resources in order to
sustain their populations.

In their attempts to solve this

supply problem ,societies may
grow in complexity in the form of
bureaucracy, infrastructure, social
class distinction, military
operations, and colonies.
Jared Diamond says that many
past cases of societal collapse
have elaborate environmental
factors such as deforestation and
habitat destruction, soil problems,
water management problems,
overhunting, and overfishing, the
effects of introduced species,
human population growth, and
increased per-capita impact of
people.
 Different Classes
of Scenarios
involving Societal
Collapse
Local Societal Collapse
Individual societies can collapse, but
this is doubtful to have a determining
effect on the future of humanity if
other advanced societies survive and
take up where the failed societies left
off.
All historical cases of collapse have
been of this kind.
Global Societal Collapse
We suppose new kinds of threat (e.g.
nuclear holocaust or catastrophic
changes in the global environment)
or the trend towards globalization
increased interdependence of
different parts of the world and
create a vulnerability to human
civilization as a whole.
The Future
of
Humanity
Technologies in the 21st century such as
Genetics, Nanotechnology, and
Robotics (GNR)-are so powerful that
they can spawn whole new classes of
accidents and abuses. These are widely
seen within the reach of individuals or
small group. The will not require large
facilities or rare raw materials.
Knowledge alone will allow the use of
them.
 Prediction of Artificial
Intelligence
The idea of technological
singularity tied specifically to
artificial intelligence and stated.
“Within thirty years, we will have
the technological means to
create superhuman intelligence.
Shortly thereafter, the human
era will be ended”
HOW TECHNOLOGY IS
TRANSFORMING THE
HUMAN EXPERIENCE?
a. Hearing colors/hearing at arms
length
b. Eye-camera/smart contact
lens/eyeball jewelry implant. Technology is really
c. Human compass transforming the human
d. Password pill experience, helping people
e. Electronic throats tattoo to achieve things that
f. Interaction with devices wound have only been
previously dreamt in fiction,
g. Robots arm/ controlling thought some of the new
wheelchair inventions should
h. Bionic limp potentially stay there.
i. Artificial vision system
j. Terminator arm/ titan arm
k. USB finger/ Mind Uploading
 The new Pandora’s Box- also
known as “technology”

• the new Pandora’s boxes of genetics,

nanotechnology, and robotics are almost open,
yet we seem hardly to have noticed.
• Churchill remarked, in a famous left-handed
compliment, that the American people and their
leader “invariably do the right things, after they
have examined every other alternative”
 According to
Nick Bostrom
(2004), there
are four future
scenarios for
the humanity
and technology
1. The extinction scenario
2. The recurrent collapse scenario
3. The plateau scenario
4. The cumulative probability of post humanity
 Post Humanity Theory
A clarification of what has been referred to as “post
human condition” is overdue. It is used to
mention to a condition which has at least one of
the following features:

1. Popular bigger than 1 trillion persons.

2. Larger than 500 years life expectancy
3. Large fraction of the population has cognitive
capacities more than two standard deviations
over the present human maximum.
4. Near-complete control over the
sensory input, for the majority of people
for most of the time.
5.Human psychological suffer become
rare occurrence.
6. Any change of magnitude or
profundity comparable to that of one of
the above.
Post humanity
- Is a theory/concept that is of an
advance level of technology or
economic development that would
involve a radical change in the
human condition, whether the
change was brought by biological
enhancement or other causes.
 Message to Humanity

It is needless to say that like any other aspect of

development, the technological development is
similar to a double edge sword which on one side
can kill someone and on the other side can lead to
one’s own protection. However, the decision to
use it proficiently in proper perspective is one’s
own decision and choice.
➢ If technological advancements are put in the best uses, it further
inspires the development in related and non-related areas but at
the same time its negative use can create havoc in the humanity
or the world.
➢ Technology has and will, change the moral fabric of humanity; it is
up to the present generation to heed this warning and not allow
such societal travesties of immense proportion ever to occur
again.
➢ Technological advancements will continue to advance rapidly as
we move into the next millennium.
WHEN TECHNOLOGY
AND HUMANITY CROSS
by: Mona Tañedo
UNIT EXPECTED OUTCOMES

1. Discuss contemporary human

experience to strengthen the human
person functioning in society.
2. Evaluate the impact of Technology on
humans and society.
Advantage, Disadvantage and Limitations of Technology

Importance of Technology to Humanity

Technology has a profound on every aspects of
lives. The way we live, interact changes
through technology in the different fields of
education, medicine transportations, economy,
communications and politics.
Advantage of Technology
Disadvantage of Technology
• Humans had misused the technology and used in damaging purpose
• By the use of technology, man is doing illegal things
• New technology like mobile are generating bad consequences to the
children.
• By means of modern technology, terrorist use it for destructive
purpose.
• Many illness are created due to the development of atomic energy and
atom bomb.
• Modern technology like nuclear energy have not only affected and
other creatures.
• Natural beauty is decreasing due to the development of modern
technology.
Limitations of Technology to Humanity
Factors that Defined the Limits of Technology
• The law of physics
• The law of software
• The challenge of algorithm
• The difficulty of distribution
• The problem of design
• The problem of functionality
• The importance of the organization
• The impact of economics
• The influence of politics
The Law of Physics
Through software a flexible
medium. The Quantum and
Thermodynamics effects, that
limits the use of technology
The Law of Software and Algorithms
A software limitation: There are a given computation
that we can’t do it, or we cant afford it and sometimes we
don’t know how to do it. - David Harel’s delightful book
The Difficult of Distribution
A distribution system is one in which the failure of a
computer you didn’t even know existed can render your
computer unusable. - Leslie Lamport, (American computer scientist)

The Problems of Design “Everything should not be multiplied unnecessarily”

- William Occam

Web-centric system consist of ten

thousands of lines of customs code on top
hundreds of thousands lines of middleware
code on top of several million lines of
operating system code.
 Isaac Newton projected Occam”s work into
physics by nothing. “We are admit no more
causes of natural things such are both true and
sufficient to explain their appearances”
“Everything should be made as simple as
possible, but not simpler.”
- Albert Einstein

The Problem of Functionality

Brooks writes: To consider the requirements functionally, and
non-functionally of a machine has a limitations.
Importance of Organization

“No Person can ever understand such a system

completely” – Booch (2003)
More developers mean more complex
communication and hence more difficult coordination,
particularly if the team is geographically dispersed.
With team of developers, the key management
challenge is always to maintain a unity and integrity of
design.
The Impact of Economics
Technological Advancement cost
money.
According to Barry Boehm in his
classic work on:
Software Engineering Economics, based
upon empirical evidences, concludes that
the performance of a project can be
predicted according to the equation.
PERFORMANCE = (COMPLEXITY x PROCESS) x TEAM x TOOLS

PERFORMANCE – effort or time

COMPLEXITY – volume of human- generated code
PROCESS – maturity of process and notation
TEAM – skill set, experience and motivation
TOOLS – software tools automation
The Influence of Politics
Investment in software development is the key to
success, the political organization can influence its progress
and limitation. Great things could have provided if the politics
influences are on a positive side.
HUMANITY
From the latin word “humanitas” which
means “human nature, kindness.”
Humanity is the human race, which includes
everybody on earth.
It’s also a word for the qualities that make us
human, such as the ability to love and have
compassion, be creative and not be a robot or
alien.
Questions:
Humans have come a long way
from the cave but how far can
they still go? Is there a limit to
technological progress? What
does this mean for humanity’s
distant future? Answer:

As part of these technological advancement, it

hinges on the longevity of human species. To
advance far ahead in science and technology and
According to Sagan (2004) todays is a period
where he called it “technological adolescence ‘’ the wisdom to use these, human beings
need time.
POLICIES AND TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT
United States of America
U.S industry technological advancement frequently has been
reinforced by congressional initiatives over past 30 and more.
U.S Industrial Competitiveness and Technological
Advancement article in 2012
- Increase in economic growth in the contribution to the creation of
new goods, new services, new job and new capital because of the
advances technology.
- Technology application can improve productivity and quality of
products.
Canada, USA, North and South America
to Europe and Asia-Pacific
- Scientific developments and technological changes are
important drives of current economic performance.
- Some features of this transformation are the:
growing impact of information and communications
technologies;
rapid application of new products and processes; and
a change to more knowledge-intensive industries and services.
Philippines

The technology market is facing crisis since the

economic environment of the developing
countries are opposing technology based
institutions.
- Research and Development and Technology in the Philippines
ETHICAL DILEMMAS

Science and technology as well as research and

development enjoy and must continue to enjoy
autonomy from the state and society.
Technology Permeates every aspects of human
life and activity.
Real-Time Satellite Surveillance Video
Planet labs and skybox imagining companies that are recently
purchased by Google have launched a lots of satellites in the
year. The purpose of this is to record the status of the entire
Earth in real time.

Astronaut Bioethics (of Colonizing Mars)

- The colonization of Mars and plans for a long- term space missions are
already on going.
- On December 5, NASA launched the Orion spacecraft. Charles Bolden a
NASA Administrator declared it as a “Day one Mars era”
- The Company of Mars one is preparing to launch a robotic mission to Mars in
2018, with succeeding humans in 2025.
Wearable Technology

• wearable have the

potential to teach us,
• protect our health, as
well as violate our
• privacy in any amount
ways.
State-Sponsored Hacktivism and ‘Soft War’
Soft war" is a concept used to explain
rights and duties of is urgent even terrorists
during armed struggle.
Soft war incorporates tactics other than
armed forced to achieve political ends.
Hacktivism or Cyber war could the tools
of soft war, through states in inter-states
conflict, as opposed to isolated individuals or
groups.
Enhance Pathogens

-October 17, 2014 the White House suspend a

research that would enhance the pathogenicity of
viruses.
-Gain-of-function research is not detrimental; it is
used to provide vital understanding to virus and
how to treat them.
 Non-Lethal Weapons
Weapons that may not kill but can cause serious
pain, physical injuries and long term health
costs.
Laser blinding weapon - A laser weapon is a directed-energy weapon based on
lasers. After decades of R&D, as of January 2020 directed-energy weapons including lasers
are still at the experimental stage and it remains to be seen if or when they will be deployed as
practical, high-performance military weapons.
Pain ray - It is, literally, a pain gun. Known as “Active Denial Technology,” the pain gun
shoots extremely high frequency microwaves from a truck hundreds of meters away. When
these waves hit your skin, you feel like you're being cooked alive.
Laser missile - interceptors could deter the development of nuclear weapons.
"Imagine you're a country that has to invest in a nuclear weapon and then all of a sudden the
U.S. comes out with an ability to shoot your nuclear weapon down at cents per shot. I think you
could really hurt people's incentive to go that route."
Robot Swarms
Harvard University researchers newly created group of 1000 robots.
No human intervention is required on these "kilobots" beyond the
original set of instructions and works together to complete tasks.

Artificial Life-Forms
Research on artificial life forms is an range of synthetic
biology focused on custom building life forms to address
specific purposes. Synthetic life allows scientists to study
the origins of life by building it rather than breaking it
down. Making artificial life forms has been deemed
"playing God".
Resilient Social-Ecological Systems

Resilient Social-Ecological Systems is what we

need to build. Tolerantly being pushed to an
extreme while maintaining their functionality either
by returning to the early state or by operating a
new state. Able to stand extreme weather events or
regain functionality quickly afterwards is an
example.
Brain-to-Brain Interfaces

It's no Vulcan mind meld, but

brain-to-brain interfaces have been
achieved, allowing for direct
communication from one brain to
another without speech. The
interactions can be between
humans or between humans and
animals.
 The Future of Humanity (Bostrom, 2009)

1. Extinction
2. Recurrent collapse
3. Plateau
4. Post humanity