Existential risk research analyzes risks that could lead to human extinction or civilizational collapse, and looks for ways to build resilience against them. The ethics of technology is an interdisciplinary subfield of ethics that analyzes technology’s ethical implications and explores ways to mitigate the potential negative impacts of new technologies. This was followed a century later by the Second Industrial Revolution which led to rapid scientific discovery, standardization, and mass production. New technologies were developed, including sewage systems, electricity, light bulbs, electric motors, railroads, automobiles, and airplanes. These technological advances led to significant developments in medicine, chemistry, physics, and engineering. They were accompanied by consequential social change, with the introduction of skyscrapers accompanied by rapid urbanization.
- Swinburne is a world leader in online education by using interactive and innovative technologies to deliver our courses and degrees.
- She’s sharing this knowledge with future generations, who have the power to impact the environment.
- Herbert Marcuse and John Zerzan suggest that technological society will inevitably deprive us of our freedom and psychological health.
- Able to create printed and digital visual communication design work that has added value and aesthetics, to overcome identity problems, mass communication, and competition problems by stakeholders.
She’s hoping to keep the population healthy one vial of saliva at a time. Open source software is integral to building a movement toward equality. For DeCausemaker, that meant creating a degree program in the School of Individualized Studies that targeted the specific areas of expertise he needed to craft the career path he wanted.
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The cooking hypothesis proposes that the ability to cook promoted an increase in hominid brain size, though some researchers find the evidence inconclusive. Archeological evidence of hearths was dated to 790 kya; researchers believe this is likely to have intensified human socialization and may have contributed to the emergence of language. Henry L. Gantt, Class of 1884, developed the Gantt chart, a bar chart for tracking construction project schedules that’s an industry mainstay still in wide use today. Members of the 16 Greek-Letter organizations at Stevens form life-long networks of brothers or sisters, and strive to live up to their common values and the university’s principles to community, leadership and scholarship. Slightly removed from the bustle of the city, the university sits on 55 acres along the Hudson River waterfront with plenty of tranquil green space.
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Past automation has both substituted and complemented labor; machines replaced humans at some lower-paying jobs , but this was compensated by the creation of new, higher-paying jobs. Studies have found that computers did not create significant net technological unemployment. Due to artificial intelligence being far more capable than computers, and still being in its infancy, it is not known whether it will follow the same trend; the question has been debated at length among economists and policymakers. A 2017 survey found no clear consensus among economists on whether AI would increase long-term unemployment. Whether it’s developing alternative energy resources, helping to find the next cancer treatment breakthrough or building resilient cities prepared for climate change, students and faculty actively participate in shaping the future.
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The first use of iron alloys such as steel dates to around 1,800 BCE. With this increase in population and availability of labor came an increase in labor specialization. The __cfduid cookie is from CloudFlare where some required files are stored.