Please give a substantive response to at least 100 words to three other students in regards to what they post. No plagiarism DUE DATE AND TIME: June 4, 2020 At 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time (Student) Andrea

Please give a substantive response to at least 100 words to three other students in regards to what they post.

No plagiarism DUE DATE AND TIME: June 4, 2020 At 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time

(Student) Andrea Bourne Post:

What is the problem for which this technology is the solution?

The problem according to Alang (2015) in the article “Smartphones Have Created a New Kind of Loneliness”, presents being alone as it relates less social able. The cell phone being the most powerful device, can do the same and much more than the basic computer. We can access the many applications whenever and wherever, using this device to browse, create, and tweet music and other programs. It has come to the point where I can speak to my device, download, or click an app rather than utilizing keystrokes, to access the many connections.

Though this device takes away the attention of the moment with every text or call it put that loneliness because family times are no longer that with the presence of a cell phone at dinner tables, movie times and bedtime. Vacations are no longer relaxing with the use one cell phone on every hip This device has created less social interaction instead of utilizing modern forms of communication, we begin to know and uncover the hidden nature of the cell phones and became lazy. Though we tend to evolve around the usage and “must have” of this device that draws our attention away of what is important at that present moment.

We can look on the bright side, that the mechanism of such device benefits us in this present crisis that we face with social distancing, more online banking, and distance learning, not just with the smartphones, but tablets, kindles, laptops and smart watches that according to Alang (2015) “Smartphones Have Created a New Kind of Loneliness”. Nonetheless, we are more dependent on these smart devices as it creates a shift in circumstances, and a more reliance for worldwide communication.

Reference

Alang, N. (2015) “Smartphones have Created a New Kind of Loneliness”. The New Republic.

(Student) Joseph Tomas Post:

Whose problem is it?

Smartphones have revolutionized the way we go about our daily lives. It has given us the ability to use a device at the palm of our hands that is capable of doing what a computer and a cellphone can do combined. These all in one devices allow us to communicate with others through text message or email, read an article online, or play a game. We, the consumers of smartphones, have an obligation to ensure that we do not completely rely on the digital age and allow smartphones to become an essential crutch in our daily lives.

In the article Smartphones Have Created a New Kind of Loneliness, Navneet Alang starts off by saying how technology deprives people of their fundamental need for face-to-face interaction. What this boils down to is that people are too glued to their smartphones which doesn’t allow them the needed human interaction. I can contest to this through personal experiences. Most of my free time and work time is spent on devices connected to the digital world. It’s very easy for me to go a few days or even a week without ever having to speak to another human being face-to-face. I’m accustomed to being alone, but there could be a link between being disconnected from human interaction and constantly being on my smartphone.

In this day and age, more people are comfortable speaking into a face camera or web camera than speaking face-to- face. There are countless numbers of people who have thousands or even millions of followers on various social media platforms. Smartphones give those people the ability to share their lives through a mobile means without that much needed face-to-face interaction.

Smartphones are great to capture precious memories and speak to loved ones, but we cannot allow them to overtake our lives.

Alang, Navneet. “Smartphones Have Created a New Kind of Loneliness.” The New Republic, 23 Oct. 2015, newrepublic.com/article/123190/smartphones-have-created-new-kind-loneliness.

(Student) Curtis Manos Post:

What new problems might be created because we have solved this problem?

Human beings have been fascinated and confounded by the concept of artificial intelligence for millennia. As early as the ancient Greeks, we have sought to develop machines from cognition - however rudimentary - can be identified. From a mechanical bird in a stage production, circa 500 BCE, to the smartphone assistants of today, artificial intelligence (AI) has created something of a conundrum for our own moral philosophy.

In contemporary society, technology has not yet developed to the point of expressing humanity or emotion in an organic way - simply put, machines cannot feel. Not yet, anyway. However, AI systems are continuing to grow and progress in their sophistication, to the point that our society must begin to reckon with the sticky ethical dilemma of creating, utilizing, and subjugating AI to our will. The exploration of the potential of AI has similarly fascinated us, as we can see through modern visions of the future in works such asI, Robot,BladeRunner, Ex Machina,and Ghost in the Shell.While these examples are fantastical works of science fiction, they are the fledgling notions of a culture that both recognizes and fears the potential of AI technology.

Artificially intelligent systems are being developed in order to serve us, and to make our lives and scientific pursuits easier. AI could potentially revolutionize our ability to organize and interpret data, control our machinery, and automate our lives. However, it is plausible that AI could "learn" the complexity of cognition, and even emotion. If an AI system could one day recognize itself as an individual, and understand the weight of existence vs nonexistence, then system could understand the weight of sentience and death. Subsequently, we must ponder our own role in lording over other sentient beings - the morality and ethics of creation, of dominance, and of liberty itself. Furthermore, transhumanist philosophy posits the eventual integration of AI and human life; it was Stephen Hawking who once stated that "AI could spell the end of the human race." (Mayor)

Works Cited

Mayor, Adrienne. “Replicants and Robots: What Can the Ancient Greeks Teach Us? | Aeon Essays.” Aeon, Aeon, 16 May 2016, https://aeon.co/essays/replicants-and-robots-what-can-the-ancient-greeks-teach-us.

DUE DATE AND TIME: June 4, 2020 At 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time