Tue: Introduction. Lessig Presentation

Thu: Computing Technology (Adams)
Christianity and Computer Science at Calvin College (Plantinga)
Computing and the Image of God (Vander Linden)

Tue: John Hospers, The Best Action is the One with the Best Consequences

James Rachels, The Best Action is the One in Accord with Universal Rules

[Slides]

[Study Questions]

Thu: ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct

[Study Questions]

Tue: John Warwick Montgomery, Computer Origins and the Defense of the Faith
Kevin Kelly, God Is the Machine
Kevin Kelly, How Computer Nerds Describe God

Thu: Sara Baase, Protecting Software and Other Intellectual Property
See also textkit.com forum 25911

[Study Questions]

Tue: File sharing. DRM, DMCA, and the loss of consumer rights.
- Stacy Dogan, Copyright in Cyberspace: Rights Management and Copyright: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act
- Pamela Samuelson, Digital Rights Management {and, or, vs.} the Law
- Pamela Samuelson, Toward a New Politics of Intellectual Property

[Study Questions]

Thu: Dynamic Link: Graham, page 2.
Dynamic Link: Bailey, page 14.

Tue: Wired (Simson Garfinkel), Patently Absurd

[Study Questions]

Thu: Richard Stallman, The Gnu Manifesto,
Why Software Should Not Have Owners,
Why Software Should Be Free

[Study Questions]

Tue: Eric Raymond -- The Cathedral and the Bazaar [or see ESR's latest version]

[Study Questions]

Thu: Test 1 (Essay and factual questions about ethical theories, the ACM code of ethics, and intellectual property law.)

Tue: Littlewood & Strigini, The Risks of Software
eWeek: Can Software Kill? [skim]

[Study Questions]

Thu: Wired: The Love Machine

[Study Questions]

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Thu: Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines
Ian Hutchinson, Faith in the Machine

[Study Questions]

Tue: First Part.

Thu: Second Part.

Tue: Hans Moravec, Dualism Through Reductionism

[Study Questions]

David Gelernter, Artificial Intelligence Is Lost in the Woods

[Study Questions]

Thu: Information overload.
Neal Postman, Informing Ourselves to Death [or here]
Bill Gates, Information and our Interactive Future
Imitation of Christ, The Love of Solitude and Silence

[Study Questions]

Tue: Kenneth Gergen, How computers affect inter-personal relationships

[Study Questions]  

Thu: Video games, violence, and computer addiction
Christian Bell, Chimes: Violent game addicts Calvin students
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Kaiser Foundation speech
Anderson and Bushman, Effects of Violent Video games...
    [browse; read discussion section]
The Dreamchaser on B&W's Morality Play
Optional, in depth reading: A History of the Video Game Controversy

[Study Questions]

Thu: Christine Gardner, Tangled in the Worst of the Web
The Evidence of Harm [read the section on Perceptual and Dispositional Consequences]
Nathan VanderKlippe, Filtering software blocks porn, raises questions

[Study Questions]

Tue: Justice issues. Race and gender in computing

Anthony Walton, Technology Versus African-Americans

Project Connect: Calvin's response to the digital divide

Sarah Burgess, Where Have the Women Gone - Leading Women Executives
Kim Potter Kihlstrom, Men Are From The Server Side, Women Are From The Client Side

[Study Questions]

Thu: Lee Hardy, Work, Life, and Vocational Choice: Investing Yourself in the Divine Economy [link]

[Study Questions]

Tue: Student presentations.