Mon: Introduction

Wed: Ethical Theories

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

[Study Questions]

Mon: Codes of Ethics

ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct

[Study Questions]

Wed: Ethical olympics

["Critique" 3 guidelines]

Mon: Copyright law.

Cohen and Rosenzweig, A Brief History of Copyright

Copyright Clearance Center, Copyright Basics

[Study Questions]

Wed: Fair use. Share and remix. Creative commons.

Pamela Samuelson, The Copyright Grab [1996]

[Study Questions]

Mon: DRM and the loss of consumer rights

Pamela Samuelson, Digital Rights Management {and, or, vs.} the Law

Pamela Samuelson, Toward a New Politics of Intellectual Property

[Study Questions]

Wed:The DMCA

UCLA, The Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Wikipedia, The Digital Millenium Copyright Act

DMCA resources (optional)

EFF, Fair use and DRM (optional)

[Study Questions]

Mon: Patents

Wired (Simson Garfinkel), Patently Absurd

Are Software Patents Evil? (Paul Graham)

[Study Questions]

Wed: Free software movement

Richard Stallman, The Gnu Manifesto

Why Software Should Not Have Owners

Why Software Should Be Free

[Study Questions]

Mon: Growing up online

Wed: Privacy and the Internet

Simson Garfinkel, Privacy in a Database Nation

People Search [do a search and see sample report]

[Study Questions]

Mon: Fair information practices

Code of Fair Information Practices

California's Web site privacy policy law

Privacy Today: A Review of Current Issues. Select and read one issue of interest and comment on it in your critique.

[Study Questions]

Wed: Test

Mon: CS majors: Subject test in SB352

Extra credit for non-CS majors: Neal Postman, Informing Ourselves to Death

Wed: AI Worldviews

Hans Moravec, Dualism Through Reductionism

[Study Questions]

Mon: Transhumanism

Time, 2045: The Year man Becomes Immortal

[Study Questions]

Wed: AI, cont.

Christopher Hook (Christianity Today), The Techno Sapiens Are Coming

[Study Questions]

Mon: Perfection

Michael Sandel, The case against perfection

[Study Questions]

Wed: Technology and the military

Steve Featherstone, Harper's Magazine: The Coming Robot Army

Cornelia Dean, NY Times: A Soldier, Taking Orders From Its Ethical Judgment Center

[Study Questions]

Mon: Technology and cognition

Nicholas Carr, Is Google Making Us Stupid?

[Study Questions]

Wed: Video games and addiction

Christian Bell, Chimes: Violent game addicts Calvin students

Soul Kerfuffle: A View From the Top

Anderson and Bushman, Effects of Violent Video games... [scan; read discussion section]

Optional: [1] [2] [3]

[Study Questions]

Mon: Technology and education

Sara Corbett, NY Times, Learning by Playing: Video Games in the Classroom

Optional: Sebastian Thrun

[Study Questions]

Mon: Technology and relationships

Adrian Turpin, Not tonight, darling, I'm online

[Study Questions]

Wed: Vocation

Clayton Christensen, How Will You Measure Your Life?

[Study Questions]

Mon: Presentations

Wed: Wrap-up

Sat, 9 am: Presentations [if needed]