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Has any of those classes ever been actually useful for this kind of thing though? The closest classes I took could be summarized as: * Snowden: good or bad?
by o11c 2y ago
Has any of those classes ever been actually useful for this kind of thing though?
The closest classes I took could be summarized as:
* Snowden: good or bad?
* Poor people should try enjoying rich-people hobbies!
* Does it belong in a museum, or should it be returned to the descendants of the people it was taken from? (actually a very interesting class)
- ryandrake 2y agoI fondly remember "Social and Ethical Issues In Computing" which I took in my senior year as an undergrad. Lots of "can we / should we" discussions. Topics included "IP, Patents and Piracy," "Encryption and Privacy," "Robotics, Automation and AI," "White Hat / Black Hat hacking," Phiber Optik and Kevin Mitnick (I'm dating myself here, my class predated the Snowden stuff by almost 20 years). A lot of the curriculum was from High Noon on the Electronic Frontier, a copy of which I still have! Some of it was fluff, like we watched and discussed Ghost In The Shell (LOL), but overall I thought it was a decent current-issues/ethics course, which IMO should have probably been required to graduate with the title "Engineer."
- gowld 2y agoMaybe a humane, ethical mindset can't be created via a 3hours a week certificated lecture?