Sociology
Society, most of the time, is the central concern of any
science. It is through society and how/why it should evolve and develop that
most of today’s great scientific realizations and achievements have been
accomplished. Why? Well, the existence of many problems and challenges of the
present world towards developing the world, in this case technologically,
alongside evolving as a society it was possible to solve/overcome them through
these scientific breakthroughs. Therefore, the concept of Sociology (Mainly in
order to overcome societal issues with relation to technology) is going to be
the focus of my comment on the following areas:
Network:
As I have established above,
developing and evolving as a society is one of today’s ongoing goals. That can
be achieved through a number of factors, with networking being, in my opinion,
the most important. It is considered impossible for individuals to come up with
any kind of products on their own. Individuals, whether directly or indirectly,
will need to involve other actors in order to achieve that. It is through
social networking (social structure made up of a set of social actors) that
will make it possible for society to evolve as a whole. In order to network
effectively with other social actors, order and organization is absolutely
necessary. The article (Can human-machine
superintelligence solve the world’s most dire problems?) suggested an
intelligent and technological method to do that. The article introduced what is
called “Human Computation”, which to briefly define it is combining computer
intelligence and human in crowd-powered systems. Such discovery as the article
mentioned would help with solving huge world problems like climate change and
geopolitical conflict. It helps with organizing and effectively assigning tasks
to one another through Microtasking (see figure below):
As mentioned in the article, tasks assigned in a friendly manner and in accordance with what every individual excel at, therefore, establishing order and speeding up the process of solving any problem. Database is conventionally known to be any set of data held in a computer and is accessible in multiple ways. Therefore, it is crucial to involve and store data so that to take actions accordingly. In order to conduct research of any kind, data collection in many cases would be necessary.
As mentioned in the article, tasks assigned in a friendly manner and in accordance with what every individual excel at, therefore, establishing order and speeding up the process of solving any problem. Database is conventionally known to be any set of data held in a computer and is accessible in multiple ways. Therefore, it is crucial to involve and store data so that to take actions accordingly. In order to conduct research of any kind, data collection in many cases would be necessary.
Future:
Technology is a double-edged sward. In one way it could
immensely help societies overcome huge societal issues and contribute to its
development and evolvement. On the other hand it could end mankind. In the
article “ Stephen Hawking warns artificial intelligence could end mankind, the
physics savant alerts the world that artificial intelligence could end
humankind. Moreover, the article
mentioned that others weren’t as pessimistic about it as he is. Rollo Carpenter,
creator of Cleverbot said “ I believe we will remain in charge of the
technology for a decently long time and the potential of it to solve many of
the world problems will be realized”. I personally feel ambivalent towards the
future of technology, however, I hope humanity would not exploit and just try
to make lemonades out of lemons.
References:
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http://www.kurzweilai.net/can-human-machine-superintelligence-solve-the-worlds-most-dire-problems
I thought it was interesting that you focused a lot on networking, and how important it is to us today in the culture we live in. Specifically, bringing up social media as a main means of networking, rather than face to face as things were in the past. I also found in interesting that the article you read about database focuses on how you can combine human and computer technology, to conduct intelligence to solve some large problems we have in the world. In contrast, the article I read believes that the answer lies solely in technology, and therefore totally removing the human aspect of database.
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