1. “Technology is so much fun but
we can drown in technology,
the fog of information can
drive out knowledge”
Daniel J. Boorstin
SOCIAL IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY
EMILY BRETT
APRIL 8th 2013
JORDAN G. & ERIK P.

2. technology is the talk of this generation growing at
lightning fast rates, yet slowly destroying us at the
same time. almost every individual posses a unique
piece of technology and almost every individual is
contributing to the destruction of our beautiful world.
DANGEROUS TECHNOLOGIES INCLUDE…
→AUTOMOBILE
→NUCLEAR POWER
→ROBOTS/MACHINES
→COMPUTER VIRUS
→GENETIC ENGINEERING
→SPACE JUNK

3. ● the automobile can be argued as ● the problem that arises however, is
one of the greatest inventions of all that the fossil fuels used to do such
time, it allows transportation and gets task is hurting our environment and
us from point A to point B at ease. health drastically.
● with the population growing the
number of automobiles is increasing and
this is causing CO2 levels to skyrocket.
● this causes harm to our planet by
trapping heat inside our planet and
continuously warming it, thus
causing most organic life forms to
die .

4. ▪About 80 people per day are killed in
America due to car pollutants.
▪Car exhaust is directly linked to
asthma, bronchitis, and other health
hazards.
▪Over 2.3 million tons of lead from lead
acid batteries is now on the roads.
▪70% of air pollution in china are from
cars.
▪ Big Rigs idle for 28 hours per week
burning 1500 gallons of fuel per year.
▪ CO2 emissions from America car and
trucks alone is 1 million tons per day.

5. AS THE GOVERNMENT CONTINUES TO CONSIDER
CREATING MORE NUCLEAR POWER STATIONS TO
HELP SOLVE ENERGY SHORTAGES THE SAFETY OF
SOCEITY & THE WORLD IS QUESTIONED…
CONCERNS INCLUDE-
● SAFETY OF THE FACILITIES & WORKERS/NEARBY CITIZENS
● ENVIROMENTAL IMPACT IN DISPOSAL OF RADIOACTIVE WASTE
● POTENTIAL TARGET OF TERROIST ORGANIZATIONS
● CREATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS FOR MASS DESTRUCTION
● Nuclear Power can wipe out an
entire city and infect millions if
one small accident occurs.
● Nuclear Power technology
enables nuclear weapons which
WHAT IF THE can cause mass destruction!
CHERNOBLY DIESASTER
HAPPENS ALL OVER AGAIN? ● Near the end of WWII USA used a
Nuclear Fission Bomb code named
“little boy” over a Japanese city
killing 200,000+ people!

6. AS TECHNOLOGY CONTINUES TO ADVANCE ROBOTS AND MACHINES
ARE CONTIUOUSLY TAKING OVER. THE MORE ADVANCED TECHNOLGY
BECOMES THE MORE TASKS THESE DEVICES CAN DO.
CONCERNS INCLUDE-
● ROBOTS TAKING OVER AND BEING SO INTELLEGIANT THEY RUN THE WORLD.
● MACHINES DO ALL THE JOBS.
● MACHINE INTELLIGIANCE BECOMES THE SUPPIROR FORCE.
● LOSS OF INCOME FOR MILLIONS OF WORKERS IN A LARGE SECTOR.
● ROBOTS MAY SEE HUMANS AS
IRRALAVENT THUS WIPING US OUT.
● ROBOTS ARE CONSIDERED TO
BE THE NEW “BIG THING” AND A
HOUSEHOLD ITEM IN 2020.
● MACHINES CAN DO EVERYTHING
HUMANS CAN BUT FASTER AND MORE
ECONOMICALLY = NO NEED FOR
HUMANS!

7. WHAT IF A VIRUS INFECTS ALL OUR COMPUTERS AND SYSTEMS?
If the “super worm” spread itself into the
approximately 9 million computers around the
world, mass chaos and disorder would erupt
sending us back to the 1970’s with global riots.
● COMPUTERS NOW
WITHOUT THEM THESE
OPPERATE NUCLEAR POWER DEVICES WOULD FAIL!
PLANTS, HYDRO ELECTRIC CAUSING MAJOR
DAMS, OIL PIPLINES & TRADGETIES.
TANKERS.
● THEY OPERATE MISSILES THIS WOULD LEAVE
AND SPACESTATIONS IN THE POSSIBLE THREATS IN THE
AIR AND NO TALK BETWEEN
SKY. COMMUNICATION POLITICAL FIGURES IN
TOOL TO LINK COUNTRIES MAJOR COUNTRIES.

8. SINCE TECHNOLOGY HAS INCREASED OVER THE
LAST 10 YEARS, COMPUTERS ARE NOW
HANDHELD SIZES IN A COMMUNICATION DEVICE
CALLED SMARTPHONES.
● OVER ONE BILLION PEOPLE
IN THE WORLD HAVE SMART
PHONES.
● SMART PHONES CAN BE
USED AS TIMERS AND TRIGGER
DEVICES AS WELL AS JAMMERS
FOR MANY OTHER DEVICES.
● WITH THE EASE BEING SO
PORTABLE THEY CAN CAPTURE ● THIS NEW TECHNOLOGY HAS LED TO MANY
PICTURES AND SEND VITAL NEW LAWS/REGULATIONS FOR PRIVACY AND
INFORMATION INSTANTANOUSLY. OVERAL SAFETY TO THE PUBLIC!

9. GENETIC ENGINEERING IS THE PROCESS OF TECHNOLOGY THAT
IS USED TO TRANSFER GENES ACROSS SPECIES BOUNDARIES IN
ORDER TO CHANGE THE GENETIC MAKEUP OF CELLS
● THROUGH GENETIC
ENGINEERING ORGASIMS ARE LONG TERM HEALTH
GIVEN NEW COMBINATIONS OF EFFECTS OF GENETICALLY
GENES – THEREFORE ALSO NEW MODIFIED FOODS ARE
COMBANATION OF TRAITS. UNKNOWN.
UNKNOWN CREATIONS OF
● PLANTS CAN BECOME BIOLOGICAL
INVINSIBLE, OR TOXIC. WEAPONS/VIRUSES COULD
WIPE OUT HUMANITY!
● ANIMALS CAN CHANGE COULD LEAD TO DANGEOUS
SIZE, SHAPE, COLOUR, STREN MUTATIONS. ACCIDENTS DO
GTH & MOOD. HAPPEN AND CRAZY TURN
OF EVENTS ARE POSSIBLE.

10. THROUGH TECHNOLOGY IT HAS ALREADY ALLOWED US TO
UTILIZE SPACE AND CREATE ANOTHER DELIMA WHICH COULD
THREATEN NOT ONLY THE ENVIROMENT BUT ALSO THE WORLD.
● SPACE JUNK IS ● ESTIMATING ALREADY UP TO
ABANDONED ONE MILLION PIECES, THESE
SATELLITES, ROCKETS, DEBRIS FAST MOVING OBJECTS CAN BE
, PAINT CHIPS, SPRINGS & VERY DANGEROUS.
BOLTS.
TRAVELING AT LIGHTNING
● SPACE JUNK FAST SPEEDS WHILE
LEAVING ORBIT AND ENTERING EARTH/MAJOR
COMING TO EARTH. CITIES
● COLLIDING WITH DAMANGE PRE-EXISTING
ROCKETS AND SPACE BILLION DOLLAR SPACE
EQUIPMENT
STATIONS.
DESTROYING THE
● ENVIROMENTAL ATMOSPHERE AND
EFFECTS. CAUSING UNWANTED
DENSITY

11. EVERYONE LOVES TECHNOLOGY AND IT HAS WITHOUT A DOUBT
HELPED MAKE MANY TASKS WE FACE ON A DAILY BASIS MUCH
MORE SIMPLE. THE PROBLEM WE FACE IS WHEN SUCH
TECHNOLOGIES ARE ABUSED OR MISUSED CAUSING
DISASTER, CHAOS AND LIFE THREATNING SCENARIOS.
to many cars, vans and trucks on the
● AUTOMOBILES- roads have caused high levels of
CO2, polluted our air and used
significant amounts of our limited
fossil fuels.
● NUCLEAR nuclear power is very dangerous and
toxic if misused. (Chernobyl) and allows
POWER- nuclear weapons/warfare which can wipe
out a whole city.
as technology continues to increase and
robots become more of a house hold items
● ROBOTS they will take over our human traits and make
& MACHINES- us unneeded/unwanted. machines will do are
work and robots will take over.

12. OVER THE COURSE OF THIS PRESENTATION I HOPE YOU WERE ENLIGHTENED
ON THE REAL DANGERS OF TECHNOLOGY. WE ALL LOVE THESE FLASHY
DEVICES AND TAKE MOST FOR GRANTED BUT AS SOON AS WE START TO
ABUSE THEM WE WILL PAY THE PRICE!
computers have become our main source of
communication and storage of critical
● COMPUTER documents/information. if a major worm virus was to
VIRUSES- overtake all the computers chaos would
erupt, communication would be lost and documents
would be no existent.
● GENETIC mistakes are too common and messing with genes
and cells is just looking for disaster. with genetic
ENGINEERING- engineering a new technology mutants will be
created and health problems will arise.
space is accessible and now we have destroyed it.
debris is flying and soon enough will be travelling
● SPACE JUNK- to earth at incredible speeds not only destroying
our environment but also mankind.

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