Technology's Impact on Society PDF

## Technology and Its Impacts **Since When Did the Transportation Change Dramatically?** 1. 1800 2. 1997 3. Agriculture **Banking** - Quick and easy which only requires a simple pin to access. - Backbone of the society today - 7 Use of technology - Example banks that have mobile apps to acces...

## Technology and Its Impacts **Since When Did the Transportation Change Dramatically?** 1. 1800 2. 1997 3. Agriculture **Banking** - Quick and easy which only requires a simple pin to access. - Backbone of the society today - 7 Use of technology - Example banks that have mobile apps to access your banking and investment details easily, wherever and whenever you are on the go **Business, Communication, Human Relationships, Education, Purchasing, Agriculture, Banking, Transportation** **Chase, Wells Fargo, RBC, PNB** **Clean energy, virtual reality (VR), education for the future in a better way?** - How can technology shape up reality (VR), education for the future in a better way? - Examples of technology education (applications) - It is a disease develops when people over-participate in virtual relationships and end up with no friends in real life - Philosophers who felt animals are mindless machines than humans - Examples of technology in banking **Coursera, Khan Academy, Duolingo, Flying cars** **Cyber-sickness and loneliness** - It is a critical form of communication technology used by the simplest person to the president - Examples of technology in purchasing **E-banking providers, ATMs, Banking Applications** **Descartes and Kant** - **EMV smart chips, online payment providers, Google wallet** - **Farmgraze** **Flying Cars** - A drone that is capable of carrying people. **Genetic Algorithms** - work by creating many instances of a system at once, of which only the most successful "survive" and combine to form the next generation of instances - Examples of email providers **Gmail, outlook, yahoo** **GoToMeeting, Webex, Skype, WhatsApp** - Examples of virtual dating apps and sites - Most widely used payment provider in the USA **Match.com, Whatsapp, Eharmony, Bumble** **Paypal** **Rapid proliferation of smartphones** - It is directly proportional to the booming expansion of e-commerce and internet-based companies - Worker in car manufacturing struck by a robot and killed. This can be partly attributed to the over-dependence on smartphones. - Impact of technology in human lives **Robert Williams from Mazda** **Sedentary lifestyle and lack of physical activities** **Smartphone and Artificial Intelligence, Future of technology** - **Solar power technology and electricity through wind turbines** - Examples of clean energy **Tesla Motors** **Toyota Prius** **Transportation** - Big boy of the fully electric car world - Biggest contender in the hybrid industry. - It has become a basic need of every society. **Video conferencing and emails** **Virtual reality** - Examples of technology in communication - Can be used for communication through holograms, for interacting with 3-D objects and other useful and educational purposes. ## Definitions of Terms - **Good habit:** allows us to perform actions without effort - **Goods of the soul:** knowledge, skill, love, friendship, aesthetic enjoyment, self-esteem, and honor - **Happiness:** to live in accordance with reasons means achieving excellence - **Hedonism:** pursuit of pleasure, especially of the senses - **Humanism:** An intellectual movement that focused on human potential and achievements - **Intellectual and moral virtue:** 2 types of virtues - **Intellectual virtue:** virtues of the mind - **Justice:** fairness - **Materialism:** preoccupation with physical comforts and things - **Means:** a method, course of action, or instrument by which something can be accomplished - **Moral virtue:** derived form attitudes - **Natural desires:** general needs ## Definitions - **Acquired desires:** specific wants - **Apatheia:** the freedom from suffering - **Arete:** Greek for virtues - **Benevolence:** kindness - **Bodily goods:** health, vitality, vigor, and pleasure - **Bodily goods:** 3 types of goods - **External goods:** - **Goods of the soul:** - **Courage:** bravery to do what it takes - **Daimon:** Greek for spirit - **Democritus and Leucippus:** first materialists. - **Ends:** goals - **Epicureanism:** happiness is the chief goal in life, and the means to achieve happiness was the pursuit of pleasure - **Eu:** Greek for good - **Eudaimonia:** Greek for happiness; central concept in Aristotelian ethics - **External goods:** food, drink, shelter, clothing - **Good habit:** allows us to perform actions without effort - **Prudence:** cautiousness - **Prudence, Justice, Benevolence:** 3 primary virtues - **Statesmen:** life of honor - **Stoicism:** minimizing desires and passion. - **Temperance, Courage, Justice:** 3 important moral virtues. - **Temperance:** self control; keeps us from overindulging - **Theism:** belief in a god or Gods as a fulcrum for existence - **Wise:** life consists of virtue