Topics include:įairness (everyday life, but longer-term implications of tech)įreedom and the rule of law (maybe not your life, but still how individual choices shaped the way tech had an impact on society & how the law reacted)īusiness, capitalism, corporations (likely relevant to your future careers)Ĭybersecurity & the impact of technology on war (i.e., between-country conflicts)įate of humanity (big-picture & long-term) This will be guided by reading and class discussion of recent works on the topic. Course participants will explore history and context, characterize key problems, assess their severity, predict their future, speculate on how much of what we are facing is inevitable, and think about what steps might avoid or mitigate the most undesirable outcomes. The Cyber Dystopia course focuses instead on the downsides of such technology advancement. Most university training in Computer Science focuses on technology advancement: writing more efficient programs, mining over bigger data, teaching a computer to more accurately distinguish a cat from a dog, and so on. Restricted to students with senior standing. One of CS 210 or CS 211 or ECE 316 or PHIL 316. Credit is not given towards a degree from multiple offerings of this course, if those offerings have significant overlap, as determined by the CS department. Topics selected from key current areas of impact of computer technology on aspects of society and ethics such as: freedom versus the rule of law in cyberspace social discourse privacy livelihoods and automation fairness security political change business models technology divide.ģ undergraduate hours.
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