1. 1BA6 Green Team Class Presentation – Information Technology shapes us more than we shape it – The case against it. 1 The Green Team  Information Technology shapes us more than we shape it.  The case against it.

2. 1BA6 Green Team Class Presentation – Information Technology shapes us more than we shape it – The case against it. 2 The Green Team  Leader  Marc Hanlon  Speaker 1  Billy Doran  Helpers:  Mark Egan  Speaker 2  Daniel Kavanagh  Helpers:  Derek Fitzgerald  Speaker 3  Marc Hanlon  Helpers:  Magali Vaccon  Rebuttal  Niall Glynn

3. 1BA6 Green Team Class Presentation – Information Technology shapes us more than we shape it – The case against it. 3 Our Argument  Speaker 1 : Billy Doran  What does the motion mean? Definition of keywords.  Technology is precipitated by human desires, wants and needs.  Introduction  Speaker 2 : Daniel Kavanagh  Artificial Intelligence  Creation (Playing God)  In our own image  Speaker 3 : Marc Hanlon  Summary

4. 1BA6 Green Team Class Presentation – Information Technology shapes us more than we shape it – The case against it. 4 Definitions  The motion is stating that, Information Technology is molding us (people) to be more like I.T., more than we mold I.T. to be more like people.

5. 1BA6 Green Team Class Presentation – Information Technology shapes us more than we shape it – The case against it. 5 Speaker 1  Billy Doran  Point 1: Technology is precipitated by human desires, wants and needs.

6. 1BA6 Green Team Class Presentation – Information Technology shapes us more than we shape it – The case against it. 6 Speaker 2  Daniel Kavanagh  Point 1: Artificial Intelligence  Point 2: Creation (Playing God)  Point 3: In our own image

7. 1BA6 Green Team Class Presentation – Information Technology shapes us more than we shape it – The case against it. 7 Point 1  Artificial Intelligence  Examples of AI problems are computer vision (building a system that can understand images as well as a human) and natural language processing (building a system that can understand and speak a human language as well as a human). Asimo http://world.honda.com/ASIMO/

8. 1BA6 Green Team Class Presentation – Information Technology shapes us more than we shape it – The case against it. 8 Point 2  Creation (Playing God)  Creator: God – www.dictionary.com  Genesis 1:27  So God created man in his own image,  in the image of God he created him;  male and female he created them.  We created robots in our own image. God http://www.copadorer.com/

9. 1BA6 Green Team Class Presentation – Information Technology shapes us more than we shape it – The case against it. 9 Point 3  In our own image.  When do you draw the line between a robot being a robot and a robot being a life form?  Life form: The characteristic of a mature organism. - www.dictionary.com Hertz http://radio.weblogs.com/

10. 1BA6 Green Team Class Presentation – Information Technology shapes us more than we shape it – The case against it. 10 The Motion  These points have shown the motion to be FALSE in that we are never-ending in our quest to shape technology.

11. 1BA6 Green Team Class Presentation – Information Technology shapes us more than we shape it – The case against it. 11 Speaker 3  Marc Hanlon