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“The human being in a technological prospective”

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Olá a todos!

Hi everybody!

How did we get here?

How did we become what we are today?

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How long has passed from the Australopithecus to the Homo sapiens?





an ancient human-like creaturethat may be a direct ancestor to our species

Ardi

4.4 million years ago (Lucy was 3.2 million)


Ardi


So, we have seen that the time the has passed from theAustralopithecus to the Homo sapiens was 4,4 millions years



And how long has passed from the Homo sapiens to Modern man of today?


It has passed over 200.000 years


more 200.000 years has passed


more 200.000 years has passed


Were there unique moments in which significant facts happened in nature’s evolution?

Like for example: � the advent of life, or� the introduction of technology:

� the fire,

� the wheel,� etc.


Like some superior and divine intervention!

Or is all of that fruit of a gradual and continuous evolution?


Does technology changes the rules of natural selection?

Does technology changes the natural evolution of the human beings?


Technology:� Facilities� Laziness� Obesity � Health problems� Quickness � Anxiety � Frustration � Machine dependency� Mass production� Social inequalities (economic) � Destruction of small sustainable communities� Growing number of big cities � Occidental style of life� Family decentralization� Individuality and egocentrism � Entertainment� Constant search for pleasure � Mass manipulation � Decreasing in quality of teaching

� Decrease in intelligence � Reduction of mortality rate � Population increase � Increase in waste and pollution � Pure water reduction � Dependency on medicine � Health manipulation by medical companies and clinical laboratories� Products ever more and more developed � More developed weapons � Incentive to crime and war� Better and wider communication networks� Cooling of personal relationship between people� Greater possibility of mass manipulation through the media.� More scientific research� Greater accumulation of knowledge� Solutions to problems created by technology itself.


� Facilities � Quickness � Mass production� Entertainment� Reduction of mortality rate � Products ever more and more developed � Better and wider communication networks� More scientific research� Greater accumulation of knowledge� Solutions to problems created by technology itself.

Technology:


� Facilities� Laziness� Obesity � Health problems

� Quickness � Anxiety � Frustration � Machine dependency

� Mass production� Social inequalities (economic) � Destruction of small sustainable communities� Growing number of big cities � Occidental style of life� Family decentralization� Individuality and egocentrism

Technology:


� Entertainment� Constant search for pleasure � Mass manipulation� Decreasing in quality of teaching� Decrease in intelligence

� Reduction of mortality rate � Population increase � Increase in waste and pollution � Pure water reduction � Dependency on medicine � Health manipulation by medical companies and clinical laboratories

Technology:


Technology:

� Products ever more and more developed � More developed weapons � Incentive to crime and war

� Better and wider communication networks� Cooling of personal relationship between people� Greater possibility of mass manipulation through the media.


� Only technology can solve the problemscreated by technology itself.

� using more technology

O ser humano numa perspetiva tecnológica______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

bio -engi'neering n.the application of engineering and the physicalsciences to biological processes; the industrial use of biological processes

bio'medical a.of or pertaining to both biology and medicine

Introduction to Bionics______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

� Bionics?


Bionic Systems

(popular definition)

� super-powers

• normally associated to


popular definitionfrom scientific fiction

� super powers


bionic a. [f. bio- + electronic.]having electro-mechanical body parts, or superhuman powers resulting from these.

Also in trivial use: powerful, energetic.

Bionics?

Bionic Systems

popular definition

bionics n.

the study and the construction of systems that function like (parts of) living beings.

from fiction from scientific fiction


Bionic man



� cyborg »» cybernetic organism

� android

� genoid

� super powers

Bionic Systems


android

genoid


� Any device that will make the human being capable with enhanced powers

� Either by a born deficiency, or by loss in accident, etc.

real Bionic Systems


� artificial organs

� artificial limbs

� implants and prostheses

� brain-computer interface

implantation of a chip in the brain (human cerebralwaves captured by the computer)

� exoskeleton

Some devices that make the human being capable with enhanced power:


Prostheses and implants








Ultimately,

a humanoid robot

since he is an“entirely artificial”

human being


or

Is Robotics a branch of Bionic Systems?

Is Bionic Systems a branch of Robotics?


Delft University of Technology Holanda

Research about how human walk


MIT

Research on the way humans express emotions


Some devices that make the human beingcapable with enhanced power:

� artificial organs

� artificial limbs

� implants and prostheses

� brain-computer interface

implantation of a chip in the brain (human cerebralwaves captured by the computer)

� exoskeleton


Some exemples more

of prostheses and implants

Artificial pancreas


Diabetes


an artificial kidney, hemodialysis machine


aortic valve


aortic valve


Dr. Ivo Pitanguy

Robin Williams

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Arnold Schwarzenegger

Barbara Walters

Rodney DangerfieldBetty Friedan

They have already undergone this aortic valve surgery

The first artificial heart, manufactured in Texas, USA, in 1981


AbioCor manufactured by Abiomed from Massachusetts

Jarvik-7 manufactured by Jarvik Heart, Maryland

modern artificial hearts


AbioCor manufactured by Abiomed from Massachusetts

Jarvik-7 manufactured by Jarvik Heart, Maryland

modern artificial hearts


open heart surgery


open heart surgery


open heart surgery


and we are back to the question:

Does technology changes the rules of natural selection?

� Only technology can solve the problems created by technology itself.

� using more technology


Obrigado!

Felippe de [email protected]

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