Category: Disruptive Technologies
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Disruptive Technologies-7: Technology, Biodiversity and Future of Earth
With the Age of Discovery, the world changed completely. New trade routes were opened. The tools required to use those routes developed rapidly. Of course, for this reason, many wars also broke out. A serious arms race began. That arms race eventually reached an entirely different point with the atomic bomb. It became not only…
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Disruptive Technologies-6: Artificial Womb
Türkce icin: https://bahadirhancicek.com/2024/10/28/yikici-teknolojiler-6-yapay-rahim/ Although I briefly mentioned it before, I wanted to elaborate a bit more on the topic. Because I find it quite fascinating and I believe it is a technology that could fundamentally change life. (Yes, science and belief together.) In fact, the concept of this technology dates back to the 1930s. It…
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Disruptive Technologies-5: The Ethics of Data-Driven Decisions
Türkçe için: https://bahadirhancicek.com/2024/10/12/yikici-teknolojiler-5-veri-temelli-kararlar/ When I first held a gun, it sprayed water. It was fun to spray someone else, but when it was sprayed at me, it didn’t feel that entertaining. Later I got a toy dart gun. We’d shoot it around and stick the plastic dart onto things. Once, by accident, it stuck right…
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Disruptive Technologies-4: Military Technologies
No healthy person wants to kill. At their core, people are not inclined to kill or to engage in violent conflict. When you look at diaries and notes from the world’s bloodiest wars, you see the same thing. No matter how motivated they were, in the end they say that war is not a good…
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Disruptive Technologies-3: Otism, Down syndrome and Some Ethical Topics
I saw a discussion on the internet. “Having an abortion because the baby has Down syndrome.” The comments underneath were, in many ways, ordinary — and yet deeply disturbing.While deciding over a human life seems frighteningly easy, taking real responsibility and thinking things through when deciding to have a child appears to be much harder.…
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Disruptive Technologies-2: Rental Economy
In the previous article, we learned what disruptive technology means and how it can affect our lives. Now, let’s take a closer look at those effects. As the title suggests, this time the topic is the economy. Let’s start with a very classic example. The richest 10% of the world owns about 75% of global wealth. The top…
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Disruptive Technologies-1: How Disruptive Technologies Reshape Our Lives
Türkce icin tıklayın: https://bahadirhancicek.com/2024/10/04/yikici-teknolojiler-nedir-ne-degildir/ I often complain about the constant flow of information in our era, unconscious social media usage, and the effects social media has on perception. This time, I want to open up this topic a bit more: how all of this is evaluated from a technological perspective, what kinds of problems await…
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