Computing Ethics - Chapter 1

Catalysts for Change

What age are we living in

The Information Age

What are the 2 main principals catalysts for the information Age

1. high-speed communication networks

2. low-cost computers

What example does the textbook use to illustrate the importance of modern technology

COVID-19:

• used for entertainment, work, school, etc.

• highlighted the “digital divide”

how did the pandemic highlight the digital divide

students with better income had access to better working technology

how can the use of technology physically change us

• changes our brains’ neural pathways

how can technology change perceptives

• people felt safer when they had their phones and when lost they felt vulnerable

  • ex: study done on students at Rutgers feeling like they’ll get raped without their phones

how does the textbook say the advancement of technology has helped us

by helping us develop technologies to help with health care like MRI scanners, hearing aids, or new vaccines/ pharmaceuticals

how has technology negatively impacted us

• since so many people have access to it, it increases traffic both online and physically

• makes it harder to restrict websites or information from youth/ people

• makes it easier for companies to outsource jobs