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HOW TECHNOLOGY IS AFFECTING
SOCIETY“TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid
people from spending too much time out in public”D.Coupland
What do they have in common ?
■ UX Director
■ Analytics engineer (Big Data Engineer)
■ Mobile developer
■ Social Media Manager
■ Uber Driver
■ Cloud computing Specialist
■ Drone operator
■ SEO engineer
What is technology
■ Set of knowledge and skill with which we build and control the world
Technology in history
Tech in social life
■ Technology has changed the way we meet and date
Technology vs Politics
■ Who affects the society more ?
Tech in academics
■ Technology has changed the
way we learn and study
Technology in politics
Concerns
■ Architects vs Designers
■ Military vs Firewall
■ Privacy
Dilema 1
1. Things like bombs have good and bad uses.
2. Therefore, a bomb in itself is neither good nor bad.
3. Therefore, goodness and badness attach to uses, not to technology.
4. If technology is neutral, so is science.
Dilema 2
1. The same science, for example nuclear physics, can be used to generate different
technologies, like atomic bombs and nuclear power stations.
2. Therefore, even if technology was not neutral, science would be.
Conclusion
■ Scientist and engineers have to take the responsibility for their work and how it
affects the society in general.
■ J.Mengele
■ Tuskegee project
■ Manhattan project
■ Or maybe not ?
But …
“The only scientists who are entirely free from
moral responsibility for the knowledge they
produce are therefore those who work on
discovering or extending fundamental theory, for
it is only then that the effects and applications
are entirely unknown and unforeseen”