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Exploring Inflection Points: Evaluating the Impact of Inventions on Society

This course introduction focuses on the critical examination of inventions that have created inflection points in human history. Attendees will discuss the positive and negative impacts of notable inventions such as the wheel, electricity, and the internet. Key themes include evaluating technology's influence on privacy, family dynamics, quality of life, and societal progress. The course will establish criteria for ethical evaluation of systems, balancing justice and individual freedoms, while addressing the challenges of relativism and societal balance.

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Exploring Inflection Points: Evaluating the Impact of Inventions on Society

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  1. COMP 381 Introduction10 January

  2. Today’s agenda • Attendance and introductions • Wait List • What will the course entail? • www.cs.unc.edu/Courses/comp381-s11 • Structure • Assignments • Fly through of the topics • Inventions and inflection points

  3. Inflection Points • A bend or change in the course or direction • What inventions have created inflection points in man’s history?

  4. Inventions • Fire • Gunpowder • Internal combustion engine • Automobile • Written language • Airplane • Printing press • Air conditioning • Steam engine • Computer • Telephone • Electricity • Penicillin • Wheel • Internet • Contraceptive pill • Central heating • Train • Photography

  5. Evaluating Technology • What were the positive and negative impacts of those inventions?

  6. Inflection Points in History • privacy • family • quality of life • survival • expanding human reach • expanding knowledge • expanding economy • democratization • privacy invasion • disintegration of family • health • pollution • danger / misuse • misinformation • work abuse Positives Negatives

  7. How to Evaluate • What characteristics do you want for a system that you use to evaluate?

  8. Criteria for Ethical Systems • balance of justice and mercy • protect individual freedoms and rights • no individual can/should impede or hurt another individual • recognizes unethical laws • flexibility • dealing with • relativism • societal balance

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