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The merging of technology and human has already gone pretty far but in a different way than the cyborg-like ideas. Our smartphones can be viewed as an extension of our brain, they give nearly all the knowledge that man knows. Are photos and videos an extension to your memory. They even give you the added ability to communicate long distances (or, if you are lazy, short distances). Simple examples include smartwatches, which allow you to monitor your heart rate, and how many calories you have consumed, steps you have taken, etc. In addition, we now have more conventional' cyborg-like' technology. For anybody. However, it's almost certain that we're going to go much further with these developments, and there's plenty of discussion about how they might operate, let's look at some of these operations. Our lives are going to be increasingly combined with technology, there are a few ways we can do this, such as microchips inside the body, which can detect other irregularities in the body, such as cancers and diseases. You would then be alerted to this, such as through an app on your phone, then you'd get a suggestion such as going to a doctor or being your own personal doctor on the robots later and telling you exactly what was needed.
Now let's look at something even more questionable: human gene editing. A man named He Jiankui in China's Southern University of Science and Technology in November of 2018. Had claimed to have created the first genetically modified human children, twin girls, Lulu and Nana through a series of youtube videos. No scientific papers were available, only the youtube videos, and he claimed to have modified their DNA via CRISPR-Cas9. He claims he'd done this to stop the transmission of HIV from heir father. This had caused a lot of confusion with many saying it was inappropriate and it would be bad for us to have the ability to do so. Stephen Hawking also believed this would happen, stating, "Many people will not be able to resist the temptation of enhancing human characteristics, such as the size of memory, resistance to disease, and length of life... If these superhumans exist, there will be significant political issues with the unimproved people who will not be able to compete."On this planet, there would be morally superior humans, and some may try to rule over the lesser humans because humans are so notorious for doing so. Because of this, if the technology gets out of hand, it would cause major problems, and should only be used in circumstances that are required.
In conclusion, we have already become cyborgs, with our phones acting as our third arm and giving us the ability to communicate instantly and access information. Although we still have a long way to go, and as we have already seen, there will be many ethical problems, if these advancements will actually come to pass, then we have to find a way to make sure they are used for good. The threats are far too high for that.
Technology can greatly affect the mental and physical health of the users. Being addicted can cause psychological problems such as diversion, narcissism, instant gratification expectations, and even depression. In addition to affecting the mental health of users, the use of technology can also have negative effects on physical health causing vision problems, hearing loss, and neck strain. Luckily, steps can be taken to help ease these health problems.
The environmental impact of technology is so huge that there are drastic changes in the climate around the world.
There is damage in the form of global warming, bird extinction, plants and also greater disease propensity.
The summers get super hot whilst the winters get very cold.
The cold countries also experience less cold while the hot ones experience colder and vice-versa.
This makes living normal rather tough than usual. We may need to adopt for comforts such as tackling the transition with the air conditioning system. But that will be detrimental to the entire animals, plants, and climate.
Such improvements stem from a rise in emissions, heat generation, inactive lifestyle habits, excess gadget dependence.
HOW TECHNOLOGY AFFECTS THE ENVIRONMENT.
1) Increase in travel: This may seem awkward, but we're indeed traveling a lot nowadays than in the past. Previously, people used to travel very little because of the lack of cars, but because of improved technology and speed in cars, sometimes we're traveling more and also unnecessarily. Thereby we contribute directly to air pollution. We go around the world on trips, and even on long drives. This was done even before when the technology was low. But then the pollution chances were meager. We were relying on horses, camels, and bulls for road travel. By seas, we relied on large boats and vessels. These methods of travel are time-consuming but are less polluting. But current technology is so advanced that we travel from one part of the world to another in a short time. This is great but has a greater risk for human life and the environment.
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The pollution these travels cause is enormous. It is in the form of types of pollution from the air, water, and even noise. Those pollutions pose health risks.
Also, physical exercise is lacking and we are developing sedentary habits.
2) Excess power consumption: Thanks to technology, power consumption is high. We are using technology in education, at work, at home and even in remote places. We're addicted to smartphones, television and other gadgets. So we always need electric power to make them work on a non-stop basis. This electric energy is generated by the use of fossil or nuclear fuels on a large scale. The previous man did not need electricity throughout the day. He needed it for night lighting. Now he needs it 24 hours and in all the seasons to keep his gadgets running. CREDIT:https://assets.greentechmedia.com 3) We generate more waste: In the name of technological upgrading, we contribute a large amount of toxic waste. People used to use computers large in size before. We needed big monitors for that, CPUs, different keyboards, mouse, etc. We now tend to use laptops and tablets for their portability and compactness. We have no separate parts, such as computers, keyboards, etc. So all of the large size desktop computers were disposed into the environment when upgrading to laptops. Similarly, tungsten bulbs have been replaced by fluorescent bulbs which are replaced again by incandescent bulbs.
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These are highly toxic because they contain heavy metals such as mercury, lead in them. That can lead to a serious life-threatening health problem. Although older technology is inevitable for new technology development, we generate a lot of technological waste which is harmful to the environment. 4) Excess use of gadgets: nowadays we can see many people busy on their mobile phones or tablets on the roads, trains and even parks. That's more of a gadget addiction and the apps inside. This leads to the need for WiFi and other wireless connectivity. Due to these wireless technology, radiation exposure is high leading to silent health problems. Even it is believed that some birds also get extinct in the region of these wifi-enabled areas. 5) Excess deforestation: Deforestation is widespread in the name of growth, comfort etc. This is possible thanks to the greater machine technology ability. In a very short span, we can make a wide clearing of greenery and dig through the hills and mountains, as well. CREDIT:https://miro.medium.com
In addition, by clearing greenery around we spread out large paths. The growth in technology also makes many houses and resorts easier to build. Though to humans, it seems fun. This certainly does influence nature. Hence, due to widespread deforestation, we can see the rapid extinction of many species of plants, birds, and animals. This is detrimental to normal environment and the surrounding climate. Those countries with a good percentage of forest area have a friendly environment.
After 3.5 billion years of evolution, nature has come up with some ingenious solutions for everything, from defying gravity with stickiness to staying cool in the heat. Cathal O’Connell explains.
Here are some technological devices inspired by nature.
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TERMITE BUILDINGS
African termites have evolved some clever designs to keep their mounds at a nearly constant temperature, in environments that swing from 40 °C in the day to less than 2°C at night. Termites construct their hills with a detached cooling framework, utilizing a progression of vents along the top and sides. Architect Mick Pearce used a similar strategy when he designed the Eastgate center, an office complex in Harare, Zimbabwe. Warm air exits through chimneys at the top of the building, while cooler air is drawn up from underground.
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A termite mound catches the evening sun in the Masai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya.
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The elaborate chimney cooling system at the Eastgate Centre in Harare takes its inspiration from termite mounds.
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SHARKSKIN
Inspired by the microscopic scales on shark skin, NASA scientists developed a drag-reducing coating for ships. The technology helped the Stars and Stripes win the Americas’ Cup sailing race in 1987. The coating was so successful, the competition regarded it an out of line advantage and prohibited the innovation before later restoring it.
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Scales covering sharks reduce drag and ease motion.
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America’s Cup boat Stars and Stripes during challenger races in Auckland 2002. Its ‘sharkskin’ hull gave it the edge.
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BULLET TRAIN KINGFISHER
A high-speed train emerging from a tunnel generates a tremendous thunderclap due to the air pressure that builds up in front of the nose. In the 1990s Japanese engineer, Eiji Nakatsu noticed that kingfishers could dive into the water with barely a splash. His design for the Shinkansen bullet train, based on the kingfisher beak, not only reduced the noise of the train but was also streamlined progressively, utilizing less force and empowering higher speeds.it.
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The kingfisher can enter the water with scarcely a splash, and the bullet train follows its lead.
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A Central Japan Railway Shinkansen bullet train arrives at Tokyo Station. It owes its looks to the kingfisher.
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WHALE FIN WIND-TURBINE
In Boston, Frank Fish, a biologist, noticed the bumps running along the fins on a statue of a humpback whale, and assumed the artist had made a mistake. Instead of protruding from the back edge of the fins, the bumps surely ran along the front. But the artist was right. A row of warty ridges creates tiny vortices which help the fin cut through the water, and explains the humpback’s surprising agility. After studying this ‘tubercle effect’, Fish discovered that adding rows of bumps to turbine blades reduced drag and noise, and increased their efficiency.
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GECKO SKIN
The secret to a gecko’s gravity-defying grip turns out to be the rows of tiny hairs, called setae, on its toes. The hairs cling to any surface using the sticky van der Waals force, which only works at microscopic scales. The advantage is a reversible, strong grip without the need to deposit an adhesive. In recent years engineers have managed to reproduce similar setae from silicone, leading to myriad variations of gecko-skin technology. Among them is a gizmo to allow humans to climb a sheer glass wall, robots can pull objects multiple times their own weight, and grippers for space repairs.
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The feet of the marbled velvet gecko has inspired a range of technological solutions for holding on to vertical surfaces.
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The gecko-inspired LEMUR clings on in this artist’s impression of NASA technology.
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VELCRO
In 1941, Swiss electrical engineer George de Mestral went hunting in the Alps and a short time later saw his garments, and his dog’s fur was covered in burdock burrs. This mechanism of clinging to passing creatures is the burdock’s way of spreading seeds across greater distances. Mestral put one of the burrs under a microscope and discovered the simple hooks which allowed it to cling to loops in his socks and in dog hair. The discovery inspired Mestral to create velcro, which he patented in 1955.
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The burdock improves the distribution of its seeds using tiny hooks.
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HIVE MIND GRID
Although no one ever guides them, bees in a hive instinctively sense what jobs need doing and get on to it – based simply on where in the hive they are and what other bees are doing around them. Regen Energy in the US adapted this ‘swarm logic’ to improve the efficiency of energy grids. Instead of using a central system to redirect power loads, the company places local controllers that communicate wirelessly with one another, and figure out on their own where power needs to.
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The burdock improves distribution of its seeds using tiny hooks.
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An extreme close-up of velcro shows its similarity to burdock hooks.
Networks far and wide and their capacity to create nourishment are fundamental for their endurance. We additionally need to expand the creation limit or agrarian items to suit the developing human populace. In any case, the constraints of normal assets, including farmland, are a specific hindrance to agribusiness and nourishment security. Vertical cultivating is accordingly another and elective strategy for revelation. In spite of the fact that this advancement has numerous points of interest over agribusiness, it has a few downsides and a few detriments.
1. Issues are made identified with monetary feasibility because of expenses
There will be fewer employments as individuals don't have to convey crops, bringing about numerous individuals jobless and ranchers losing positions. Another disadvantage is the absence of pollinators in the harvests, which may be done physically. Since the fertilization must be finished by hand, the wages paid are likewise high.
Building vertical ranches in costly urban areas will expand all-out speculation and working expenses. Besides, endorsing the development of vertical homesteads may build the expense of occupation because of extra need.
2. Conceivable natural and vitality impacts happen
Worries about contamination and supportable use emerge on the grounds that home-developed harvests rely upon fake light. In spite of the fact that the utilization of light-transmitting diode or LED lighting in photograph voltaic sunlight based boards diminish the expense of power utilization, it despite everything has its belongings. With the goal that the utilization of LED develop lights has expanded. There are such a significant number of vertical planting ranches utilizing 1000-watt LED develop lights. Notwithstanding these counterfeit lighting, a vertical ranch has complex hardware and robotized frameworks. In this way, vertical cultivating requires more vitality input contrasted with field cultivating.
Since vertical cultivating relies upon the utilization of non-renewable energy sources, this training has considerably increasingly huge impacts. There is a need to create inexhaustible and elective vitality innovations to guarantee the ecological supportability and vitality productivity of vertical cultivating.
3. There is potential for the interruption to the town and its networks
Another test and impediment are that vertical cultivating includes the possibility to destabilize networks that depend on agribusiness. Vertical homesteads can make conventional farming work out of date. Families who live beneath the destitution line and the neediness line that depends on agribusiness, specifically, will endure.
Thus, urban horticulture will contend with rustic farming. To successfully progress to vertical cultivating, there is a need to plan and execute methodologies or projects planned for teaching government authorities, making pertinent laws or approaches, and presenting new patterns in farming.
4. The requirement for cutting edge innovations and complex procedures
Building and working a vertical ranch requires the utilization of different innovations that are adjusted at a high startup cost and structure complex procedures. It is increasingly costly to begin and keep up vertical cultivating than conventional field cultivating.
IT-related innovation can help track crops, crop support, recording yields and deciding interest. In any case, making and working a vertical homestead for somebody with no pertinent nature, association and capital can be testing.
5. The counterfeit condition can fizzle anytime
At last depending on innovation can be a significant disservice for vertical cultivating. In the event that a vertical homestead loses vitality every day, it will be a gigantic misfortune underway. This implies vertical cultivating relies upon a counterfeit air that keeps up a temperature of 40 ° C and consistent mugginess, and yields developed by these vertical homesteads may bite the dust from vitality deficiencies. SOURECED FROM:https://modernurbanfarming.net
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Vertical farming promises to distribute with periodic procedures as farming will become indoors under carefully chosen and well-observed conditions.. It is calculated that one section of land in the vertical farm could be proportionate to more than ten to twenty typical soil-based parts of land, which is the dependent on which crop species are considered.
ADVANTAGES OF VERTICAL FARMING
.All year crop generation
.Wipes out farm spillover
.Fundamentally diminishes utilization of petroleum products (farm machines and transport of harvests)
.Utilizes unused properties
.No climate-related harvest disappointments
.It is user friendly
.Changes over dark and dim water to drinking water
.Makes new urban business openings
.Reduces the risk of contamination transmitted by the specialists at the gardening interface
.Controls the pests by using methane-age eatery waste.
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