Evolution In The TED Talk

Robots can effect employment in a negative way,as said by the author Kelly “It may be hard to believe… 70 percent of today’s occupation will likewise be replaced by automation...even you will have your job taken away by machines”(Kelly Page.300), this quote comes to show the negative aspect of robots taking over the world in the near

Manufacturing has always been an essential job throughout the world, but ever since the introduction of robots and machines into factories around the globe, these lower class jobs have been declining in numbers. But is this decline bad? This decline is especially true in the assembly line jobs in the automotive industry. This decline in manufacturing class jobs began in the 1960s when General Motors introduced Unimate and had huge success (Norman). This ignited a huge influx of robots and new technologies to automate the processes of building cars. While president, Richard Nixon spoke about how investment in technology will improve the workplace. Opposite to Nixon’s speech, in the article “A World Without Work”, robots are portrayed to

What is evolution? Evolution in modern terms is fairly easy to understand. Evolution is the theory that life on earth began with a single celled organism that lived more that 3.5 billion years ago that slowly evolved into

The article ‘Rise of the Machines’ is Not a Likely Future (2015), Michael Littman addresses the issue and worries that people have with regards to technology. The article attempts to persuade readers to believe that there is no need to fear technology as it is just not possible that they can overtake humanity. Zeynep Tufekci touches on the issue of machines taking over jobs of human, titled “The Machines are Coming (2015)”. She attempts to argue that there is no need to reject or blame technology for taking over jobs at the workplace. Littman’s argument is stronger than Tufekci as he provided logical reasoning due to a well balanced structure with consideration of opposable viewpoints with substantial evidence and effective usage of Pathos to appeal to the reader. Tufecki’s argument is weak due to the lack of evidence and her claim was only brought in at the end of her article which makes it seem very lop-sided.

It is important to appreciate the current nature and status of the world because there are individuals who laid the appropriate foundation for it. As Michael Specter’s TED Talk on The Danger of Science Denial, he outlined the challenges that might emanate from science denial. There are reason that ought to be checked critically since they affect the current and future generation and these include health, wealth, mobility, opportunity and declining rates of diseases. It is critically clear that Specter performs a very relevant and excellent job to the desired audience by discussing emphatically on important issues that affect the current world. He poses a challenge to the audience to basically look at the world at its normality despite looking at it from skepticism side of it. The skepticism tend to affect the smart decision technique in the modern society as it relates to The Danger of Science Denial. He logically asks the Americans and international TED talk fans to analyze effectively the desired big picture besides both logical and ethical picture. He asked the audience to emphatically compare the pictures broadly and identify the worst picture. This could assist the audience to come up with the right decision regarding their perception of current world to the future generation.

We invented machines to fulfill our necessities. As machines get smarter in the 21th century, we give machines more permissions and freedom to do more things for us. However, the new generations that are born with all the advanced technologies they needed don’t quite understanding the use of machines as we are more relying on them. The machines are quickly expanding and replacing our brains and bodies even it is a simple task to do. But if we step back a little and think that we are the inventors of these modern machines. Are we scare of machines taking over our societies or is it just our fear and curiosity that tricked us? Well, we now cannot live without machines. Human and machine are bonded together tightly that we can’t identify who we really are. We become cyborg which is a more accurate term to describe who we are now.

Technology has been improving at rates faster than the society itself over the past 3 decades. The beginnings of machinery used during the Industrial Revolution was meant to aid and improve the working conditions of factory workers; while machinery did just that it also took away many jobs as technology grew to be more reliable than human beings themselves. No one would have expected that improved machinery created by humans themselves would strip human beings of their source of living and create economic stagnation. As artificial intelligence came into play and continues to improve, humans will slowly be phased out of the workforce society. The day in which people will not be needed in the workforce will come or rather in a matter of time as our electronic counterparts are faster, more accurate, more reliable, and way beyond the power of humans to keep check. Technological improvements of the society do not promote the moral principle of utilitarianism.

Through out the course of history technology goes through spurts of development. (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., 2008) The stone age, bronze age, and iron age were the major eras of early technology. Many ancient civilizations such as

Evolution is “the idea that species change over time and have a common ancestry”(Parks, 2014). According to Charles Darwin theory of evolution, “is that all species came from one single source and over time, we have adapted to our environment for survival during the history of the Earth.” It's a fact that since human kind entered the world, up until this day we have evolved to suit a different kind of world. As to say we went from a simple kind of form and progressed into a more complex form in other words, we are still evolving to this day. “The idea that biological species, including humans, have changed over time and have given rise to other species can be traced all the way back to the ancient Greek philosophers. Our present-day understanding

Throughout the history of man kind men always tries to makes new inventions to makes his work easier and to increase the efficiency of his work. Therefore men have made many inventions to make the work easier and to make the life comfortable. With the invention of each new thing it brought some advantages and drawbacks for men but men mainly focus on the advantages and never focus on the serious disadvantages or drawbacks. With the passage of time world has gone technologically advanced. Technology is the combination of different techniques, skills, methods and the processes which were used in the manufacturing of goods or in the accomplishment of goals and objectives, Such as scientific investigation. Technology is considered as the practical use of Science, it mainly refers to new invention, modifying or making improvements. It can be the knowledge of techniques, methods or it can be related to inventions of machines,

In Mike’s Ted Talk Barry Schwartz provided a deep insight into what we call, “choice”. Honestly, I had no idea what he was talking about for the first couple of minutes of his presentation. However, with humor and several examples he was able to break down his topic into something I could understand. Schwartz connected freedom, choice, and welfare together in order to expand our understanding of the concepts surrounding choice. I found his presentation interesting as this could topic could be approached differently depending on the country of your origin. America was built on the principles of freedom, so on Schwartz terms the colonists were also fighting for choice.

The Ted Talk is my favorite of the three. It was very interesting because McGonigal had a very different view of video games than anyone else. She said that video games could change the world. At the beginning of the video, she says that 3 billion hours a week is spent playing video games. This is a ridiculous number. I knew a lot of people played video games, but I never realized it was this much. McGonigal then says we are not playing enough, and we need to play 21 billion hours a week. In the video, she refers to the book Outliers that if you do something for 10,000 hours, you will be a master at it. People who have played video games this long are masters at something. McGonigal says they are masters of urgent optimism, social fabric,

The ted talk “The Linguistic Genius of Babies” by Kuhl (2010) tells about babies are genius on language learning, and shows some results of research as proof of this idea. The article “Learning a Language as an Adult” by Pakenham, McEntire, and Williams (2013) shows an idea about the “critical period hypothesis”, children during this period learn much better than people older than this age, especially in pronunciation, because their brain activities are different than adults during this time. Personally, I totally believe the idea of children younger learn better, because the scientific research and data are shown to audiences, and they are persuasive enough. And I do see proof in my life, like four of my Korean friends who came China around

Tara Winkler, one of the presenters in TED Talk, discussed the danger of voluntourism and volunteering at the orphanages and that most of the time the person volunteering doesn't even know if the organisation is authorised or legal. Winkler argued that voluntourism will only get the country into deeper trouble. Before volunteering at a Cambodia orphanage, she believed that by doing so she was helping the people in need. She created a strong bond with the children at the orphanage and continuously going back to visit them. Soon, she picked up the language and discovered some interesting things that were happening to the children. The children who were being put into the orphanage weren't exactly

Over time our lives seem to have become more and more integrated with our technology. Some may say that this is a very bad thing because this change may result in the loss of jobs for millions of people. Jobs such as, cashiers, bankers, legal assistants, and maybe even taxi drivers. The future may appear bleak at first, but the truth of the matter is that robots taking over our simple and automatable jobs just mean that our jobs can evolve with the technology. A very similar thing happened during the industrial revolution when technologies were developed that massively increased the efficiency and yield of farming. This in turn led to a vast increase of food in the country which led to a lesser need for everyone to be a farmer. With a massive amount of food, former farm workers, and advanced technology, a business of mass production and manufacturing began. The loss of jobs due to technology led to a