This series will explore the job of a 'new science' ethicist in the future and how humankind will fit in to a future world order do...
This series will explore the job of a 'new science' ethicist in the future and how humankind will fit in to a future world order dominated with the technologies we created. We explore how "human activity" will be taken over thereby rendering the jobs of today and obsolete relic of the past beyond a century in our distant future.
Years and centuries into the future, we will be experiencing great and revolutionary change to the way we live, how society works and how humankind as a whole will see themselves. Our world has been shaped by different periods of technological growth and progress from the Neolithic Revolution to the Industrial Revolution. Exponential growth in population and rapid advancement in manufacturing, production and consumption coupled with the rise of automation, artificial intelligence and robotics will transformed human society fully-integrated with our own mechanical wonders.
The development of science in human history has always met a lot of ethical challenges as we uncover the world around us and how everything works. Whenever we achieve new scientific breakthroughs, one ethical question that is always being asked to the scientific community - are we playing God?
No one have thought about cloning, genetic engineering, and other life changing technologies can bring in a lot of controversy and opposition. Is it because scientific progress overturns traditions and social order? Is it because we will question ourselves on what it means to be human by then? In the future, 'new science' ethicists will be the gate-keeper between progress and tradition.
There will be a fierce debate of what makes us human. Will an android have the same rights as we do? Can advanced AI-powered robots be given citizenship? Well we have already taken the first step as a female humanoid Sophia became the world's first citizen from her kind. It is really up to our grandchildren and future ascendants as to how they can balance scientific progress, political principles and religious beliefs in a future society revolving around technology.
Do you want to become a 'new science' ethicist in the year 2055?
The development of science in human history has always met a lot of ethical challenges as we uncover the world around us and how everything works. Whenever we achieve new scientific breakthroughs, one ethical question that is always being asked to the scientific community - are we playing God?
No one have thought about cloning, genetic engineering, and other life changing technologies can bring in a lot of controversy and opposition. Is it because scientific progress overturns traditions and social order? Is it because we will question ourselves on what it means to be human by then? In the future, 'new science' ethicists will be the gate-keeper between progress and tradition.
There will be a fierce debate of what makes us human. Will an android have the same rights as we do? Can advanced AI-powered robots be given citizenship? Well we have already taken the first step as a female humanoid Sophia became the world's first citizen from her kind. It is really up to our grandchildren and future ascendants as to how they can balance scientific progress, political principles and religious beliefs in a future society revolving around technology.
Do you want to become a 'new science' ethicist in the year 2055?
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