MAC 5100 Impacts of Computing
This course will consider the ethical and social impacts of contemporary technology with an emphasis on the impact of computing, especially on children (e.g. how modern-day information technologies affect our privacy, how social relations are affected, how ethical decisions will need to be made, etc.). Our working thesis will be that technology is morally neutral, a tool that can be used well by understanding what a particular piece of technology promotes and discourages. Topics to be discussed include: ethics, social media, personal safety, reproductive and human enhancement technologies, information technologies, artificial intelligence, technology and the environment.