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ECS 188 – Ethics in an Age of Technology – Spring 2008 – Phil Rogaway |
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#01 1T 4/1 | Kieslowski, Dekalog, Part 1 | Surprise! Nothing due at first class meeting | See Thursday's slot for assignments due on Thursday. I will always follow this convention, so watch out. |
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#02 1R 4/3 | Quiz 1. Discussed Dekalog film. Discussed Barbour reading. |
§1 (Barbour, Views of Technology). | . | |
#03 2T 4/8 | Quiz 2. Discussed today's readings |
§2 (Heilbroner, Do Machines Make History?), and §3 (Winner, Do Artifacts Have Politics?). Assign 3: Summary, Quotes, or Analysis for each (about 1 page each) |
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#04 2R 4/10 | Quiz 4. Discussed today's reading |
§5 (Postman, Five Things ... About Technological Change) §8 (Strong, Technological Subversion) |
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#05 3T 4/15 | Quiz 5. Discussed today's reading. | §6 (Johnson, Philosophical Ethics) | . | |
#06 3R 4/17 | Quiz 6. Discussed today's reading. | §7 (Jonas, The Altered Nature of Human Action). Be prepared to present the ideas of the section you were assigned. |
Helpful vocabulary for the Jonas reading | |
#07 4T 4/22 | Quiz 7 |
Project milestone 1 §23 (Joy, Why the Future Doesn't Need Us) |
Ray
Kurzweil's response to Bill Joy's article
1/17/07 Doomsday clock adjustment |
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#08 4R 4/24 | An Inconvenient Truth | §18 (UN, The AR4 Synthesis Report) | . | |
#09 5T 4/29 | Quiz 8 Discussed Thursday+today readings |
§9 (Diamond, The Worst Mistake) §10 (Schwartz, Technological Systems) |
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#10 5R 5/1 | Quiz 9. YouTube video. Discussed today's reading |
§12 (Marshal McLuhan interview) | Helpful vocabulary for the McLuhan interview | .|
#11 6T 5/6 | Quiz 10. Discussed the Friedman reading. |
§13 (Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree) §17 (LLH, Road Map) |
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#12 6R 5/8 | Why We Fight | §19 (Orend, War) | . | |
#13 7T 5/13 | Discussed Why We Fight film and recent readings. |
§21 (Eisenhower, Farewell address) §20 (SM, Collective Violence) Assign 11: Analysis of today's film. More specifically, take one of the repeatedly-shown characters from the film and discuss his or her moral character, as you see it. |
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#14 7R 5/15 | Discussed SM reading, ACM code, and scenarios |
§31 (ACM Code of Ethics) | Read the other codes of ethics in the chapter if you're interested. |
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#15 8T 5/20 | Quiz 12. More scenarios. Discussed Boyle reading. |
Project milestone 2 §24 (Boyle, Fencing off Ideas) §25 (Stallman, GNU Manifesto) §27 (Doctorow, Microsoft DRM Talk) |
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#16 8R 5/22 |
Giving Good Talks. Discuss recent readings. | §28 (Quinn, Privacy) | . | |
#17 9T 5/27 | Quiz 13 Discussed today's and last Thursday's readings. |
§14 (Mehta, Bhopal) (Chun, Eric, Nick) §29 (Leveson, Therac-25) (Oliver, Edward, Ivan, Mark) §30 (Morgenstein, Fifty-Nine Story Crisis) (Lin, Gregory, Chris, Greg) Come prepared to present "your" article (read carefully, bring notes) & to join a discussion on the others (skim or read altnernative) |
Bhopal alternative Therac-25 alternative Fifty-Nine-Story Crisis alternative |
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#18 9R 5/29 | The Corporation | §32 (MF, Unlocking the Clubhouse) | . | |
#19 10T 6/3 | . | §34 (Schmidt, Disciplined Minds) | . | |
#20 10R 6/5 | (1) Eric + Nick presentation (2) Greg + Lin presentation |
(1) Eric + Nick paper (2) Greg + Lin paper |
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#F 11T 6/10 | Final (10:30 - 12:30) (3) Chris + Gregory presentation (4) Chun + Edward presentation (5) Ivan + Mark + Oliver presentation |
(3) Chris + Gregory paper (4) Chun + Edward paper (5) Ivan + Mark + Oliver paper |
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