Last full week of classes before Exams January 7th to January 11th
During this week before finals for semester courses, we will proceed with Beauty Shop and an exam review slated for Monday, 1/14. I will distribute a study guide as well as a prompt for the essay portion of the exam. (See the last item on this blog week). This will be "take home" dealing with "digital ethics." We will spend this week discuss the role of Technology (Social Media, Warfare, and Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) on Religion and Ethics.
A Social Life | Award Winning Short Film | Social Media Depression
DUE Wednesday, 1/16
After viewing the Ted Talk, Digital Ethics and the Future of Humans in a Connected World by
Gerd Leonhard, consider the following questions. Gerd Leonhard makes the point that “the
power of technology has already passed the scope of ethics.” He also states that “without a
stronger focus on digital ethics we may well be facing an extinction threat by our own
inventions.”
Part 1. Keeping in mind Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go and our case study on the Pillow
Angel Ethic (The Ashley Treatment), Do you think it is too late to do anything about the power of technology? If so, should
humans themselves become technology? OR If it is not too late, what would you propose as a “moral
compass” to offset procedures like the Pillow Angel Ethic (Ashley Treatment – Recall Ashley’s limited
autonomy) or the future in Never Let Me Go? Is there some universal standard(s) that could be agreed
upon by nations? A new Declaration of Human Rights? Give examples.
Part 2. Dr. Leonard also makes the point that technology is all about making the world “efficient.” Humans and
things like Religion that deal with mystery, telling stories, grace, forgiveness etc... aren’t really “efficient”
or fact based. Consider the life experiences shared during Beauty Shop and our class film The Human
Experience, What would be the role of religion, if any, in an “efficient” technologically driven world?
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