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Journal articles on the topic "Biotechnology – fiction"

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Hauer, B. "White Biotechnology – Science, Fiction and Reality." Chemie Ingenieur Technik 77, no. 8 (August 2005): 971. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cite.200590206.

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Thacker, Eugene. "The Science Fiction of Technoscience: The Politics of Simulation and a Challenge for New Media Art." Leonardo 34, no. 2 (April 2001): 155–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/002409401750184726.

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This article sketches some of the relationships between the technosciences (primarily biotechnology and biomedicine) and science fiction. Taken as a discursive practice, science fiction constructs futurological narratives of progress as well as conditions the very techniques and research that may have taken place. The tensions and inconsistencies within the biotech industry are considered as a zone where science fiction is put to work as negotiator and mode of legitimization. However, as cultural theorists such as Fredric Jameson and Jean Baudrillard suggest, science fiction can also fulfill a critical function, highlighting the contingencies and limitations in biotech's self-fulfilling narrative of future-medicine. A consideration of the emerging category of “net.art” provides one starting point for a critical science fiction practice.

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Zou. "Biotechnology and the Socioeconomic Forms in Chinese Science Fiction." Comparative Literature Studies 57, no. 4 (2020): 611. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.57.4.0611.

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Guerra, Stephanie. "Colonizing Bodies: Corporate Power and Biotechnology in Young Adult Science Fiction." Children's Literature in Education 40, no. 4 (April 7, 2009): 275–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10583-009-9086-z.

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Priyadharshini, S. Sarayu, and S. Patchainayagi. "Impact of Artificial Intelligence, Bio Terrorism and Corporate Culture in Society: A Post-Modernist Critique on ‘Windup Girl’." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 12, no. 10 (September 30, 2022): 2048–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1210.11.

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Bio Terrorism is a form of terrorism in which biological agents such as pathogens, fungi, viruses, and toxins are deliberately unleashed onto the world in order to kill a wide range of humans. Bio punk theory investigates the ramifications that are most commonly associative to the rapid advances made in the field of biotechnology, synthetic biology, and agricultural biotechnology. Bio Punk is the futuristic derivative of cyberpunk theory, subgenre of science fiction. Paolo Bacigalupi's "Windup Girl" depicts the impact of corporate culture and how an advance in biotechnology eventually leads to bioterrorism. This article delves into the topic of Artificial Intelligence, bioterrorism, corporate culture, and its impact on people and society.

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Saund, Gurpreet S., and Kulandai Samy. "Eco-critical dystopia and anthropocentrism in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake." Scientific Temper 14, no. 03 (September 27, 2023): 741–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.58414/scientifictemper.2023.14.3.26.

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Geopolitical anxieties entangled and emerged with the anthropocene, creating a collective imaginary of critical eco-dystopia in a fictive way. The imaginings of apocalypse evade the entire human civilization with its natural habitat, deluging the corpses to be laid onto the death-stricken bed of the world. Drawings on sight provide an anthropocentrism-critical approach toward the textual interpretation in general. This research article decontextualizes critical dystopian fiction and predicts the reality of biotechnology advances in Oryx and Crake. It expands on the eco-critical dystopian world to the point that it defines its long-term viability through compelling human insights that exemplify destructive acts. For instance, cybernetics, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, species splicing, and genetic engineering deploy the critical dystopic vision and transform the planet into a dilapidated globe, which becomes an untowelled world

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Aliaga-Lavrijsen, Jessica. "Ectogenesis and Representations of Future Motherings in Helen Sedgwick’s The Growing Season." Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies 43, no. 1 (June 28, 2021): 55–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.28914/atlantis-2021-43.1.04.

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After the boom of feminist science fiction in the 1970s, many such novels have tackled the different sociocultural understandings of gender and sexual reproduction. Conventionally, patriarchal thinking tends to posit a biological explanation for gender inequality: women are supposed to be child bearers and the primary caregivers, whereas men should provide for the family through their work. However, if men could share procreation, would these views change? A recent work of fiction exploring this question from multiple perspectives is Helen Sedgwick’s The Growing Season (2017), a novel that presents a near future in which babies can be grown in artificial wombs that can be carried around. As an analysis of the novel will show, The Growing Season creatively explores the existing tensions among contemporary understandings of motherhood and feminism(s), as well as developments in reproductive biotechnology, through the different perspectives offered by the heterodiegetic third-person narration and multiple focalisation. Ultimately, the voices of the different characters in the novel convey a polyhedral vision of possible future feminist motherhood(s) where ideas of personal freedom and codependency are radically reconceptualised—a rethinking that becomes especially important nowadays, for the biotechnological elements of this fictional dystopia are already a reality.

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Goodridge, Lawrence D. "Bacteriophage biocontrol of plant pathogens: fact or fiction?" Trends in Biotechnology 22, no. 8 (August 2004): 384–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tibtech.2004.05.007.

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Papadopulos-Eleopulos, E., V. F. Turner, J. M. Papadimitriou, and H. Bialy. "AIDS in Africa: distinguishing fact and fiction." World Journal of Microbiology & Biotechnology 11, no. 2 (March 1995): 135–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00704634.

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Wilbanks, Rebecca. "Real Vegan Cheese and the Artistic Critique of Biotechnology." Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 3 (April 2, 2017): 180. http://dx.doi.org/10.17351/ests2017.53.

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Drawing on the case study of Real Vegan Cheese (RVC), a synthetic biology project housed in a community lab or “biohackerspace,” I argue that biohacking performs an “artistic critique” of the bioeconomy. Following Boltanski and Chiapello’s use of the term, the “artistic critique” pits values of autonomy and creativity against a view of capitalist production as standardized and alienating, represented (in the case of biotechnology) by Monsanto’s monoculture GMOs. In this way, biohacking is depicted as liberating biotechnology from the constraints of corporate and academic institutions. Through the use of design fiction and a playful aesthetic, projects such as RVC demonstrate a more legitimate––with respect to the values of the artistic critique––mode of production for a new generation of biotechnology products, one that is portrayed as driven primarily by ethical and aesthetic values rather than the profit motive. This analysis highlights the role that aesthetic and affective strategies play in advancing particular sociotechnical visions, and the way that biohacking projects operate in symbiosis with incumbent institutions even as they define themselves in opposition to them. Finally, it suggests that biohacking has certain limitations when considered as a form of public engagement with science.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Biotechnology – fiction"

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Shanadi, Govind. "Hollywood representations of biotechnology /." view abstract or download file of text, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1421624771&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Smith, Tonja. "Bioethics for the masses the negotiation of bioethics in film and fiction /." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1798481011&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Ebbers, Tim. "Endangered Experiences in Nature : Designing for Future Nostalgia." Thesis, Konstfack, Experience Design, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-4739.

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When outdoor recreational activities are restricted, where can we find solitude, exploration and self-reliance? Endangered Experiences in Nature is a project that creates disruptive scenarios to question the relationship we have now with landscapes. A forecast in which stargazing is replaced by watching cyborg fireflies in the sky, food is genetically engineered and getting lost can only happen with the aid of special devices. The thesis uses the tools of experience design and future studies to explore the meanings and values of nature. I analyze the experiential perspective of access to nature and outdoor recreation by focusing on experiences that will likely become inaccessible in the near future. This thesis is not about preservation but stands aspiring for recreating values humans got until now from the close relationship with natural settings. In doing so, I aspire to generate new experiences. My work therefore focuses not on what nature is but what it means to perceive something as being natural, wild, unexplored, in an age where every part of nature has been explored and exploited. My original contribution focuses on using nostalgia as an active method to create new relationships with our environment. Certain things will need to be “artificial” in order to achieve “real” experiences. The project will focus on three scenarios placed in the near future (2040). Each case study extrapolates on a particular endangered experience in wilderness (solitude, exploration and self-reliance) and is set in 3 distinct landscapes located in The Netherlands, Sweden and Romania. By doing so, I touch upon different cultural and natural influences on my design process. All scenarios encompass artificial (engineered) surrogates that question the inaccessibility to experiences in natural landscapes. With the goal to create counter-experiences in the future and therefore formulate a new way to deal with our relationship with nature conceptually and physically.

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McLaughlin, Hannah Christina. "Pauline Oliveros and the Quest for Musical Utopia." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2018. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6828.

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This thesis discusses music's role in utopian community-building by using a case study of a specific composer, Pauline Oliveros, who believed her work could provide a positive "pathway to the future" resembling other utopian visions. The questions of utopian intent, potential, and method are explored through an analysis of Oliveros's untraditional scores, as well as an exploration of Oliveros's writings and secondary accounts from members of the Deep Listening community. This document explores Oliveros's utopian beliefs and practices and outlines important aspects of her utopian vision as they relate to three major utopian models: the traditional "end-state" model, the anarchical model, and the postmodern "method" utopian model. Oliveros exhibits all three models within her work, although this thesis argues that she is, for the most part, a method utopian. While her ceremonial group improvisations like Link/Bonn Feier resemble anarchical works by John Cage, they exhibit a greater interest in the past and in process than most anarchical models allow. Likewise, while her visions of a future aided by AI and bio-technologies appear end-state, her improvisational works with her Electronic Instrument System (EIS) suggest a more process-based, method utopian approach. Her Deep Listening practice is deeply method-utopian, and her Center for Deep Listening can be viewed as an attempt at bringing these method utopian principles to the real world.

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TAYLOR, SHAWN. "SPEED AND RESOLUTION IN THE AGE OF TECHNOLOGICAL REPRODUCIBILITY." VCU Scholars Compass, 2015. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3888.

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The rate of acceleration of the biologic and synthetic world has for a while now, been in the process of exponentially speeding up, maxing out servers and landfills, merging with each other, destroying each other. The last prehistoric relics on Earth are absorbing the same oxygen, carbon dioxide and electronic waves in our biosphere as us. A degraded .jpeg enlarged to full screen on a Samsung 4K UHD HU8550 Series Smart TV - 85” Class (84.5” diag.). Within this composite ecology, the ancient limestone of the grand canyon competes with the iMax movie of itself, the production of Mac pros, a YouTube clip from Jurassic park, and the super bowl halftime show. A search engines assistance with biographic memory helps our bodies survive new atmospheres and weigh the gravities that exist around the versions of an objects materiality. Communication has moved from our vocal chords, to swipes and taps of our thumbs on a screen that predicts the weather, accesses the hidden, invisible, and withdrawn information from the objects around us, and still ducks up what we are trying to say. This txt was written on a tablet returned to stock settings and embedded with content to mine the experience in which mediated technology creates, communicates and obscures new forms of language. Life in a new event horizon — a dimensional dualism that finds us competing for genetic and mimetic survival — we are now functioning as different types of humans.

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Chiou, Yun-Ping, and 邱耘屏. "The analysis of the biological concept and biotechnology in threescience fictions written by Ngai." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/8qg28y.

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國立東華大學
課程設計與潛能開發學系
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This study was conducted through content analysis method to explore three science fictions composed by Ngai: the "second human", "reserve" and "Spirit". Firstly, the author analyzed the ideas of biological concepts embedded in the three case science fictions. Secondly, the author clarified what ideas had been implemented and what ideas were not put into practice yet from the perspectives of modern biotechnology. Thirdly, the author analyzed the interaction between the science fiction and the development of modern biotechnology. The results were as follows: The biological concepts embedded in the "second human" were evolution, endo-symbiotic theory, recombinant DNA, and transgenic micro-propagation. Evolution and endo-symbiotic theory were two scientific explanations remained to be proved, while recombinant DNA and transgenic micro-propagation were quite mature in modern biotechnology. Replication was the biological concept embedded in the "reserve" fiction. Although there were many successful experiments of replicate animals, it is not permitted by the law to replicate human beings at the moment. Hybrid embryos and the in-vitro cultivation of embryos were the biological concepts embedded in the "Spirit" fiction. Although the success in making hybrid embryos among different animals were reported in the modern biotechnology, it is not permitted to hybrid human with other animals by the law. Moreover, the in-vitro embryos of human beings had not been cultivated successfully yet in either animals or human beings. The interaction between the science fiction and the development of modern biotechnology can be quite complicated. Ngai’s science fictions were made up based on contemporary biological ideas or creative thinking in biology, but Ngai also added other elements, such as fairy tales, the scientific knowledge broadcasted in the TV or magazines, observation of natural phenomena from daily life, and so on. Ngai used his bold imagination, and reasonable inference to make up characters and stories which may provide some hints for the directions and possibilities for the future development of biological technology. However, the approaches suggested by the science fiction writer and the modern biotechnology can be very different.

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Books on the topic "Biotechnology – fiction"

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McEuen, Paul. Spiral: A novel. New York: Dial Press, 2011.

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Paul, McEuen, ed. Spiralʹ. Moskva: Astrelʹ, 2013.

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Just a couple of days. Columbus, Ohio: Bast Books, 2001.

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Nagata, Linda. Limit of vision. New York: Tor, 2001.

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Nagata, Linda. Limit of vision. New York, NY: Tor, 2002.

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McCarthy, Wil. Bloom. New York: Ballantine Pub. Group, 1998.

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Anderson, Kevin J. Ill wind. New York: Forge, 1995.

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White devils. New York: Tor Books, 2004.

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Ungar, Beverly. Ageless obsession: A Melody Fox mystery. Santa Fe: Sunstone Press, 2003.

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McAuley, Paul J. White devils. New York: Tor Books, 2005.

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Book chapters on the topic "Biotechnology – fiction"

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Clark, Stephen R. L. "Making up animals: the view from science fiction." In Animal Biotechnology and Ethics, 209–24. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5783-8_15.

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Singh, Jagjit. "Ethnomycology and Folk Remedies: Fact and Fiction." In From Ethnomycology to Fungal Biotechnology, 11–17. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4815-7_2.

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Klein, H. G. "Transfusion Medicine: The Impact of Biotechnology, Growth Factors, and Bioengineering." In Transfusion Medicine: Fact and Fiction, 153–58. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3504-1_19.

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Luokkala, Barry B. "What Does It Mean to Be Human? (Biological Sciences, Biotechnology, and Other Considerations)." In Exploring Science Through Science Fiction, 167–204. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29393-2_6.

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Balsmeier, Pia. "Towards a Posthumanist Conceptualization of Society: Biotechnology in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy and Ruth Ozeki’s All Over Creation." In Representations of Science in Twenty-First-Century Fiction, 93–111. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19490-1_6.

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Kucukalic, Lejla. "American Fiction in the Age of Biotechnology:." In Contemporary American Fiction in the Embrace of the Digital Age, 31–45. Liverpool University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv3029hzv.5.

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"Science Fiction and the Sadness of Biotechnology: Deconstructing Conservative Nostalgia." In Memory, Imagination, Justice, 177–202. Routledge, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315594934-9.

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Race, Paul. "Synthetic Biology: A Game Changer?" In Engineering Health: How Biotechnology Changed Medicine, 196–215. The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/bk9781782620846-00196.

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Synthetic biology is an emerging scientific discipline that seeks to apply the principles and practices of engineering to the purposeful manipulation of biology. By exploiting cutting-edge experimental methods, synthetic biologists are able to treat living matter as a programmable material, an approach that has the potential to deliver new drugs, diagnostics and impactful medical treatments. In this chapter I outline the basic premise of synthetic biology, providing a historical context for the field. I summarise how this approach is revolutionising healthcare, by affording access to life-saving medical treatments in high quantity and at low cost. Finally, I dare to dream as to where this burgeoning field may take us, highlighting how what was once believed to be the stuff of science fiction is rapidly becoming the stuff of synthetic biology fact.

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Ingram, Penelope. "Of Chimeras and Men." In Imperiled Whiteness, 227–52. University Press of Mississippi, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496845498.003.0008.

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This chapter returns to the scientific questions raised in the Apes films, specifically those related to chimeras and germline manipulation. Produced and released when social and ethical concerns about bioengineering were heating up in the media and in the political and scientific communities, the new Planet of the Apes franchise films express an anxiety and ambivalence about enhancing animals through biotechnology which can be seen to intersect with white anxieties about the genome, and racial difference and its permanence. In these films, just as in the 1960s-70s franchise, the fear of enhanced apes, or advanced apes who can no longer be kept in their place, mirror white fear about the empowerment of Blacks. Drawing on the work of social scientists, geneticists, bioethicists, journalists, and cultural studies scholars, the chapter argues that monstrous themes and imagery in popular science fiction productions are racialized in the context of the resurgence of white supremacy and Neo-Nazi movements.

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Narkunas, J. Paul. "Between Words, Numbers, and Things." In Reified Life, 194–226. Fordham University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823280308.003.0008.

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This chapter further outlines the concept of speculative fictions with Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy. Atwood depicts a post-apocalyptic and posthuman future, where the speculative promise of financial capital and biotechnology has destroyed the world as we know it. Atwood diagnoses the human as a bioengineered product, the effect of the synergy of science, evangelical positivism, utilitarianism, and messianic faith in human innovation and market-based solutions in the creation of transgenic beings. The chapter describes Atwood as a writer of speculative fictions in her “ustopian” world modeling that challenges speculative capital’s instrumentalization of life as risk management. Atwood opposes life becoming rendered into an algorithmic game, a complex calculation that generates automated reasoning. Atwood demonstrates the importance of critiques of anthropocentrism and speciesism; however, she shows how they seemingly lack a concept of power except as anthropocentrism. If the concept of nonhistorical, fixed essences is challenged by what molecular biologists call morphogenesis and philosopher’s ontogenesis, recent advances in tissue engineering, stem cell research, and biotechnology rethink life as a non-anthropocentric process. Thinking humans ontologically as dynamically networked life and process—in short as ahuman—may frustrate life’s instrumentalization by the biotechs within free market capital.

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Conference papers on the topic "Biotechnology – fiction"

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Neagu, Simona nicoleta, and Aniellamihaela Vieriu. "THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS ON YOUNG PEOPLE." In eLSE 2019. Carol I National Defence University Publishing House, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.12753/2066-026x-19-119.

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As stated in the specialized studies, the greatest technological discoveries in the history of mankind will be recorded in the next three decades. Progress in Artificial Intelligence (AI), combined with radical discoveries in hard and software, will inaugurate a new era, which today seems to be science fiction. The existence of artificial intelligence, robots, autonomous vehicles, nanotechnology, biotechnology, and materials science are no longer considered "miracles." A recent study by Dell Technologies says that 85% of jobs in 2030 have not yet been invented, and over the next decade, over 10% of current jobs will be automated. In the world's largest industrial air-conditioning plant in China, 800 robots replaced 24,000 workers at Midea. Intelligent military robots are already present on battlefields - the United States, China and Israel, being world leaders in their field use. There are jobs that will disappear and others will be invented, our skills and competences are constantly changing, the labor market is constantly changing, employers will have other specifications in the job description. In this new world, our relationship with technology will change forever. How will we keep up with these changes? How will we deal with them? In this context, we aim to investigate within focus groups what is the impact of accelerated technological progress on youth at the psychological, social and employability level and which would be the solutions that they propose. The target group will be represented by students of the faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest.

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