Building a Better Future (Spring)
Tue, May 02
We did it! After a long and tiring survey of today's technology landscape, we made it to the end of the semester. In our final session, we'll do a debrief to find out where we landed on the most important ethical dilemmas. Importantly, we'll brainstorm some plans for improving various technologies going forward. Nearly all of you will end up working in the technology industry following graduation, meaning the real ethical dilemmas are just around the corner!
We have two main in-class learning goals. By the end of lecture today you will:
- File away the most important lessons from this class for future use in your career.
- Imagine new possibilities for the future of computer technology.
The slides for today's lecture.
Read This:
Ian Bogost requests in The Atlantic that Programmers Stop Calling Themselves Engineers
Jeff Atwood blogging about Bridges, Software Engineering, and God
Ross Baird writes a letter in Tech Crunch that begins with Dear Silicon Valley: America's Fallen Out of Love With You
Bruno Maçães tells us that The Metaverse is Here
Joanna Stern spends 24 Hours in the Metaverse for the Wall Street Journal
Wessel Reijers and Mark Coeckelbergh bring Virtue Ethics to Video Games
Do This:
Project 04
This project is due Friday 5/09 at 12:30pm.
The final project for this course will be an Infographic that summarizes your group's dialogues over the semester. Review the instructions that have been posted on the Project 04 page.
Please complete the Team Member Evaluation Form before the project deadline.