Why does

the
Future
NOT Need
us?
GNED 06

PREPARED BY: H.R. D. CRUZ

FOUR STAGES OF TECHNOLOGY
1. Proto-technology
2. Classical technology
3. Modern technology
4. Post-modern technology
1. PROTO-TECHNOLOGY
- Focuses on the time when
early tools were developed
before civilization
2. CLASSICAL TECHNOLOGY
-Rise of the agricultural
technologies and the
establishment of communities
and cities
3. MODERN TECHNOLOGY
- Fueled by science concepts
and principles which date
back about 500 years ago.
4. POSTMODERN TECHNOLOGY

- Replaces naturally occurring

products with technologically
developed ones.
Heidegger – stated that
modern technology is an
independent force in human
existence which builds a new and
incompatible order on top of what
was there.
TECHNOLOGY-DRIVEN
EXTINCTION AND
DISPLACEMENT
TWO SCENARIOS:
1. Usual course of life as individuals
age and replaced by other species
2. Disappearance of ecological
niche due to the abrupt changes
man has inflicted in the ecosystem.
POSSIBLE THREATS
1. Ozone layer depletion through
chlorofluorocarbons
-CFCs are considered to be safe to use
-but it destroyed the ozone layer that protects
the planet from the UV radiation from the sun.
POSSIBLE THREATS
2. Usage of fossil fuel leading to
global warming and climate
change
- Fossil fuels include coal, petroleum, natural gas,
and heavy oils.
- Climate scientists says that an average increase of
2ºC would be felt in 2050.
- caused by the presence of carbon-based greenhouse
gases in the atmosphere from melting permafrost.
POSSIBLE THREATS
3. Nuclear war and Nuclear
contamination
- Nuclear reactors as source of energy for most of the
industries in spite of the known threat to contamination
when they malfunction.
- fourth major accident happened in Chernobyl nuclear
power facility in Ukraine- 7000 cases of thyroid cancer
below 18 years old.
- First nuclear bomb was dropped in Hiroshima,
Japan- caused massive casualties
POSSIBLE THREATS
4. Plastics
- Most versatile and useful products in history
as they were known non-toxic to man.
- later known to be toxic to environment
- They do not enter the natural process of
recycling.
POSSIBLE THREATS
5. Petroleum-based fertilizer
-non-toxic when they are used solely to
increase crop yield and income.
- pollute nearby rivers and other bodies of
water
- amounts of nitrogen and phosphorus cause
EUTROPHICATION where algal bloom
results to oxygen depletion, cloudiness and
foul smell of water.
POSSIBLE THREATS
6. Habitat destruction
-Interdependency of each life form cannot
be recreated once it is destroyed.
- Land alteration, deforestation, and some
agricultural practices contributed to global
warming.
-CO2 level will increase- affect human
survival