Humanity Friendly Technology

November 9th, 2009

Humanity Friendly Technology (HFT) is a term that describes technology that helps to mitigate the flaws of Humanity, especially our short-term thinking and our selfish nature.

The current state of Technology not as friendly to humanity as one would think, since he design of technology is based upon the profit/cost ratio. We have to remember that the profit/cost ratio (a construct of the corporation) has no relation to improving the quality of Humanity itself.

Fundamental Information System Design

If the following items have not been achieved, the Information System is fundamentally flawed.

  • Information must be difficult to destroy
  • The Information System must be automatically redundant (minimal human maintenance is required)

A good example of a Humanity Friendly Information System would be the Western Digital My Book World Edition II NAS with 4TB (two 2TB disks) with out of the box RAID mirroring, along with support for Time Machine and file versioning.

Technology Design

Technology that does not mitigate the worse case and support the best case, is fundamentally flawed.

  • Technology must mitigate the worse case (prevent destruction of itself or by its design prevent human death or injury)
  • Technology must support the best case (self diagnosis of its system or by its design improve the quality of life of humans)

An example of Humanity Friendly Technology Design would be the Tesla Roadster Battery System

Artificial Intelligence Design

If preventing human death or injury has not been achieved, the AI is fundamentally flawed.

  • AI must, by its design, prevent human death or injury
  • AI must, by its design, ensure the replication and redundancy of information

An example of Humanity Friendly AI Design would be the Volvo Collision Warning System.

Power Systems Design

Power systems that enslave humanity to its maintenance or pollutes the biosphere is fundamentally flawed.

  • Power Systems, must by design, be self maintaining (minimal to no human maintenance is required)
  • Power Systems must be non polluting to the biosphere
  • Power Systems must be distributed at no cost or at low cost to the public.

An example of a Humanity Friendly Power System would be the Westinghouse AP 1000 Nuclear Power Plant which is designed to be passively safe, even with no operator action and a complete loss of all on-site and off-site ac power, the AP1000 will safely shut down and remain cool.

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