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1. How does science and technology affect contemporary life and vice versa?
- Science and technology affect contemporary life in a way that it makes the daily works and
chores much easier. There will be less time to be consume to finish the work when there is
technology. Because of science and technology there new things discovered that might help
us on our daily living and might be a beneficial to the near future. On the other hand, some
effects of technology to the contemporary life is it makes some people lazy.

2. How do we protect our human rights in the face of technological advancements and ethical
dilemma?
- At some point our government has laws in terms of committing crime using technologies.
For example cyber bullying which a rampant nowadays, there’s a law that whoever will be
accused of bullying using social media will be imprisoned.

3. Do you believe that Google makes people stupid? Cite at least three examples to support your
assertion
- At some point Googles makes people stupid.
 Google has many mixed information, some of the information are reliable and some
of it are not. There are so many information that are not reliable for example when
it comes to daily happenings in our surroundings, there are fake news that some
people believe it is true and reliable which makes them look stupid.
 Some people easily believe to some things which doesn’t really exist just because
they saw it on internet or they saw it on Google
 Some people just relying on internet instead of relying on printed evidences which is
more reliable.

4. Read the entirety of Joy’s article. Why doesn’t the future need us?
- Based on Joy’s article, why doesn’t the future need us? Because invention of robots,
Artificial intelligence (AI), technologies is so rampant nowadays. As time goes by
technologies are being upgraded, the robots will do what the humans supposed to do which
we humans think that makes our life much easier. But as time goes by we can say that who
needs human beings when the robots can do the thing? And there are robots/artificial
intelligence which is much more similar to humans.
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1. Which developments in the information age brought significant change in the way you live your
life?
- For me all of the developments in the information age brought significant change in the way
I live my life. First of all the role of language which is so very important especially in our daily
lives which we can use everywhere and makes us united. Second is the mathematics as the
language of nature, it is so very important because everything we see around us, there is
mathematics involved. Third which is the technological world, because of the brilliant minds
we have created and upgraded some of the technologies which is very helpful in our daily
lives. Fourth which is the printing press and beyond, it is very important especially when it
comes to reliability of information. Lastly the World Wide Web which is created by Tim
Berners-Lee, it is so helpful on us because it makes our lives much easier especially on
looking for information, communicating and etc.

2. How did the transmission of information evolve from the ancient times up to the present?
- The transmission of information during ancient times is only a paper which is wrote by
someone and it needs to be travelled for how many days and weeks. As time passed by the
transmission of information evolve and they created a printing press which can print
hundreds of information and spread it to other places. As of now, because of the brilliant
minds the humans created technologies like gadgets and etc., these things makes the
transmission of information easier and faster.

3. How did the printing press change the course of history? What ideas were spread using this
invention?
- The printing press change the course of history because they provided evidences from the
past. This invention plays a big role in our society in terms of spreading information because
printed materials are more reliable compared to the information we saw on internet.

4. Social media is a technology which facilitates the sharing of information, ideas, and other
content in different parts of the globe. If social media was deactivated for a month in the
country, what could possibly happen?
- If social media was deactivated for a month in the country, maybe our country would be
peaceful yet we are behind of the happenings on the outside world.

5. Social media also poses certain risk especially in the dissemination of false information. As a
student, how will you use social media to ensure that you do not propagate inaccurate and
unreliable information?
 - As a student in order to avoid disseminating false information, I will think before I click, I will
check first if the information is reliable or not and if the information would not cause any
trouble to some things.

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1. Research on the various forms of gene therapy. How are they done?
- Gene therapy is the addition of new genes to a patient’s cells to replace a missing or
malfunction genes. Researchers typically do this using a virus to carry the genetic cargo into
cells, because that’s what viruses evolved to do with their own genetic material. The doctors
inject the virus carrying the gene in question directly into the part of the body that has
defective cells.

2. What are the recent developments in gene therapy?

- Some of the developments in gene therapy;
 Some are applications for the treatment of pituitary tumors
 Antiangiogenises
 Inflammatory cytokine
 Micro-RNA genes

3. Stem cell treatment has been a subject of debates since early 21 st century. What do you think
about the current developments in stem cell treatment?
- The stem cell treatment is somehow helpful especially on the person that has damaged
tissues. It helps regenerate the damaged cells.

4. What health condition do you think urgently needs to be treated by gene therapy? Justify your
answer.
- The health condition that needs to be treated by gene therapy urgently is cancer. These kind
of health condition is not that easy because the cancer cells will eat the good cells as time
passed by, so as soon as possible that cancer cells needs to be eliminated in order for a
person with cancer to be saved.

5. Do you think the average human lifespan will change 20 years from now? Why or why not.
- I think yes, because of the technologies invented yet the way we enjoy our life by the used
of an artificial life support would not be the same.

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1. Why does the average temperature of the atmosphere rise? What might have caused the
unprecedented increase of its level?
- The average temperature of the atmosphere rises because the ozone layer is destroyed and
it barely filters that heat that comes from the sun. The cause of this unprecedented increase
of its level because of the burning of plastics, forest fire, factories that destroys the ozone
layer which filters the heat coming from the sun.

2. Aside from the rise in mean of temperature and CO2 levels, what are some other evidences for
global Warming?
 Northern hemisphere snow cover also decreased in recent decades
 Artic sea ice has changed

3. How does climate change affect biodiversity?

- As the planet warms quickly, mostly due to human activity, climate patterns in regions
around the world will fluctuate. Ecosystems and biodiversity will be forced to fluctuate
along with the regional climate, and that could harm many species. It has a big impact in
part due to how we have altered land use.

4. What can people and nations do to fix global warming? Give five contributions you can
personally achieve and three potential contributions on a national and international scale.
- The people and nations can fix global warming by means of planting trees for example.
 Planting trees
 Segregating of trashes
 Stop burning plastics
 Use bike instead of motorcycle
 Stop burning things that might destroy ozone layer

Things that the nations must do

 Close down factories

 Stop cutting trees
 Start cleaning the ocean, seas, and our environment

5. If climate change denial persists, what could possibly happen to the earth and humanity after
20, 50, and 100 years considering the current trend?
- If climate change denial persists we would not be able to know the effects of our ignorance.
In this way we would not be able to come up with some ideas that might save. Our world
would be on chaos.