Backcasting

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Hi, I am starting tow rite my PHD dissertation. English is not my primary language and I don’t have full time to do it therefore I need some help.

So far I have the Abstract and the Introduction + the chapters breakdown which can change slightly. I would like to verify if what i have so far is a good start. Hrere it is:

BACKCASTING

(A reverse-forecasting technique that starts with a particular future outcome and then works backwards to the present conditions.)

Abstract

Ever since Donna Haraway wrote “Cyborg Manifesto,” almost three decades ago, there has been an outburst of literature both fiction and non-fiction and numerous speculation theories—about the extraordinary human transformation. Technology is growing exponentially, and Ethics cannot keep up with this growth. As soon as some new moral guidance is defined, technology has already gone further. We have already gone that one step further. We cannot keep up with the paradigm shift of our own creation. Many of these technologies are so fundamentally disruptive that they allow for speculations concerning the eventual form humankind will take. We are facing both the utopia— a post-scarcity era of super-abundance in which technological innovation will allow supporters to believe they are helping generate extraordinary beings, (akin to Nietzsche’s Overman) and a dystopia— with an enormous danger, spanning all the way to the extreme possibility of intelligent life becoming extinct. Habermas suggests that the human “species ethic” would be undermined by embryo-stage genetic alteration; Zizek arguments argue that a new figure of freedom will emerge when we follow the logic of science to the end. Humans, without updated ethical standards, are playing with the building blocks of life to make synthetic organisms; they are implanting computers into themselves and making designer babies. In so doing, young politicians and quick-moving legislatures could contribute and at the same time this also suggests that, in the absence of real rules, with a greater reliance on individual decision-making we need communities of people developing and using future tech to regulate themselves. Ethics should leapfrog and engage contemporary influential thinkers with the utmost science fiction authors. The result may be an utopian/dystopian scenario, in which, a “backcasting” method, could support a steady evolution and provide inspiration for new solutions on ethical standards.

Keywords: Eugenics; Biotechnologies; Cybernetics; Robotics, BioEthics; Freedom; Immortality; Utopia; Dystopia; Trans/Post/Humanism.

Subject Terms: Paradigm Shift; Extinction; Exponential Technologies, Synthetic Organisms; Post-Scarcity; Second Enlightenment; Biohacking, Autonomous Robotic Systems; Artificial Intelligence

Backcasting: Summary of content by chapter

Introduction

The history of technology shows that technology is growing exponentially, although we are still reacting with an “intuitive linear” methodology. In doing so, we won’t experience 100 years of progress in the 21st century — it will be more like 20,000 years of progress (at today’s rate). Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to a technological change never been seen before in the history of all mankind. The implications include the merging of biological and nonbiological intelligence, immortal software-based humans, and sentient Artificial Intelligence. Will a new dimension of the “human” emerge? What about the old image of human dignity and autonomy? Will it survive intact? Is reprogenetics the “new eugenics”? While eugenics was forced by governments, reprogenetics is governed by consensus. Who’s going to rule it? Will countries have to rely on the communities of people developing and using future tech to regulate themselves in the absence of real rules? Is this Hegel’s idea of a man as a self-legislating human being? We are even considering building a sense of right and wrong and moral consequence into autonomous robotic systems; but how can robots be capable of moral or ethical reasoning when we, its inventor, are not? Contemporary transhumanists argue that NBIC technologies (Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information Technology, and Cognitive Science) should improve human and non-human natures; while techno-skeptics are arguing that exponentially growing technologies and practices are causing irreversible disruptions. This raises the question of whether we are going to face a positive impact of exponential technologies on human society or a fearful future of augmented humans.

Chapter 1: The Cyborg Ancestry

Keywords:

Automaton; Robot; Military Technology; Hybrid networks; Homo Generator; Human Enhancement;

Chapter 2: Reprogenetics and the new Eugenics

Keywords:

Amalekites; Social Control; Gene technology; Cybersex; Genetically Modified Organism; Cloning; Posthumanism

Chapter 3: Bioethics and Exponential Technologies

Keywords:

NBIC convergence; Nanoethics; Binary (Lunar) Reality; Technological singularity; Virtual worlds; Immortality

Chapter 4: The Sentient Artificial Intelligence

Keywords:

Feedback loop, Turing Test; Super Intelligence; Roboethics; Artificial Moral Agents; Ethical Intelligent Agents;

Chapter 5: Utopia or Dystopia: Backcasting

Keywords:

Dromology, Exponential Growth Metastases; End of History; Liquid Fear; Freedom; Science fiction;

Chapter 6: Augmented Humans and Conclusion

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computer Information System,

Apply the standards for fair, responsible and acceptable use of information technology (e.g., computer systems, network, etc.) to your environment

Perform a security audit of your own computer.

Part I: Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)

One to two page narrative covering the following topics (at a minimum) as it applies to your technology environment (e.g., computer systems, network, data, etc.):

Scope (to whom the AUP applies)

The “owner” of the AUP (who is authorized to make changes to the policy)

Why have a policy / Intent of the policy

Required conduct (behavior)

Unacceptable conduct (behavior)

Consequences / Sanctions for violations of the AUP

Part II: Security Audit

Perform a security audit of your computer.

Are there any OS updates not installed?

Are there any software application updates not installed?

Java

Browsers

Other?

Is anti-virus software installed, enabled/active and up to date?

Does a full-system scan with your anti-virus software find any viruses?

Is there a user account for each person using the computer?

Are user accounts password protected?

Evaluate the security level of all user accounts. Are those listed as an “administrator” acceptable to you?

Is the firewall enabled?

Is the screen saver configured? Does the screen saver require a password to clear it?

Are all your passwords (computer system and online) considered “strong?”

Create a table in MS Word (three columns).  List the items above in the first column (each major bullet point is a row/cell). Use the 2nd column to answer the question in the 1st column.  Use the third column to describe any actions taken, if any (if no action was taken, explain why).

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