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All the information on how to apply to present at the Social Fictions Conference, Feb. 24.
The group and personal reports on the team project will be due on December 8 and can be turned in by email. Or you can turn them in with hard copy under the door of my office, Crown 110. They can also be turned in earlier. For example, you can turn them in at the last class or during my office hours.
Reality Rhapsody film by Sid, Chiara, York, and Dylan
AI with Destiny, Skyler, and Will
Extra Credit: Watch Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower. This is a trailer.
The latest news on Joshua Wong
Online resources:
Stephen Johnson says the opposite of Carr
Reviews of Dr. Mary Aiken's book, The Cyber Effect, from which "Designed to Addict" was taken
A negative and somewhat sarcastic review from the New York Times
"Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card (before he wrote the novel and then the spin-offs)
Environmental Science Chapter 1 Slumdog Millionaire
Other views on self-driving cars and artificial intelligence:
I, Robothttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05bGPiyM4jg
3 laws have evolvedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meB86uG2qQM
Michael Sandel's Harvard lecture on moral issues, starting with trolley problem
The Good Place - the trolley problem
Stanford professors and the trolley problem
2.5 minute video giving pros and cons of driver-less cars
Blade Runner "tears in rain" episode
Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto"
For when the assignment is to watch a Black Mirror episode:
Malcolm Gladwell on social media and social change
Han Han and social media in China - a long article by Evan Osnos in The New Yorker
Rosen on Facebook and the Arab Spring
Zeynep Tufekci on Technosociology
Han Han and the power of social media
For critical thinking about Hawking's "Why God did Not Create the Universe":
Barenaked Ladies: "The Big Bang"
A positive review that mentions Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
From a New York Times reviewer
Reviews from many normal (not famous) people
From a science blog - sarcastic and negative
"The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov
Carl Sagan, Arthur C. Clarke, and Stephen Hawking on God
REQUIRED reading at the same time as the Delaney article on genetic engineering:
Chapters 4 and 5 of Frankenstein - this is a pdf of the entire book so click on the Ch. 4 link
This is a SparkNotes summary of what is happening in the book when you start Ch. 4
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