Sources

[1] Levy, Shawn. The Adam Project. 21 Laps Entertainment, Maximum Effort, and Skydance Media, 11 March 2022. Netflix.

[2] Quinn, Michael J. Ethics for the Information Age. Boston: Pearson/Addison-Wesley, 2005. Print.

Meeting Minutes

Beware... they are detailed!

3/29 Group chat created!

• Most communications discuss deadlines / Zoom meeting logistics

4/3 Meeting (Zoom)

• Goals:

  • Establish shared folder

    • Get everyone’s google drive account

  • Go over how minutes work

  • Publish website

  • Email prof. the URL

  • Establish next meeting time

• Notes:

  • Dylan Set up group structures (shared folder, website, etc.)

  • Brandon and Dylan discuss logistics

• We agreed to wrap up the meeting and send resources, notes to the group chat

• Next meeting: next weekend, probably Sunday afternoon works best

• Went back to discussing how to approach watching the movie actively

• Just write notes on anything social implications related

• Anything that comes to mind, loose note-taking

• we will develop a basic structure for what we can write about as a group

• Then, when you watch the movie the second time (probably a week later)

• Go into it with your assigned section in mindTake detailed notes whenever your specific topic comes up

• Tasks Before Next Meeting

• Watch The Adam Project (2022) on Netflix

• make sure everyone has access

• Watch it actively (i.e. take notes, just anything social imps related)

4/6 Meeting (Zoom)

• Started meeting going over logistics for website and other deliverables

• Discussed deadlines

• Decided to split up sections before second time watching the movie

• 3 Networked Communications

  • Shivali M

• 4 Intellectual Property

  • Matt Adragna

• 5 Information Privacy

  • Brandon L

• 6 Privacy and the Government

  • Brandon L

• 7 Computer and Network Security

  • Shivali M

• 8 Computer Reliability

  • Dylan

• 10 Work and Wealth

  • Matt Adragna

• Plot Timeline

  • Dylan

4/25 Meeting (Zoom)

• Goals:

  • Redistribute tasks

  • Discuss movie / possible topics

• Filled in Matt Amodea on website, shared resources

• Redistributing tasks

  • 3 Networked Communications

    • Shivali M

  • 4 Intellectual Property

    • Matt Adragna

    • Closed circuit device to protect IP

    • dangers of stolen IP

    • Details on what is and is not IP

    • His algorithm is a “trade secret”

  • 5 Information Privacy

    • Brandon L

  • 6 Privacy and the Government

    • Brandon L

    • Sorian talks to senator or smt

    • Big money manipulates government tech laws

  • 7 Computer and Network Security

    • Shivali M

  • 8 Computer Reliability

    • Dylan

    • How the ships break down

    • Time travel is tricky

  • 10 Work and Wealth

    • Matt Adragna

  • Plot Timeline

    • Dylan

  • Filmmaker’s intent

    • Matthew Amodea

  • Computing - societal conclusions

    • Matthew Amodea

• Discussed conclusion

  • Need to look for movie makers’ interviews

    • https://comicbook.com/movies/news/the-adam-project-inspiration-shawn-levy-director-interview/

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88TtY4TSl0k

  • Societal computing conclusions:

    • Movie emphasizes nature, physical world, and how tech poses a threat to that

      • Video games bad

      • Playing catch with dad good

    • Movie emphasizes the importance of upholding ethics and tech standards

      • Adam’s dad made ethical mistakes in creating the technology

      • Just because you CAN doesn’t mean you SHOULD

    • Intellectual property protection is good

    • Technological developments become dangerous when the motivation is $$$

      • Dangerous when striving to please investors

• Discuss deliverables

  • Everyone finish their assigned sections on the website by Wednesday

4/27 Meeting (Zoom)

• Goals:

  • Finish website

  • Create and share presentation

  • Assign sections for presentation

• Notes:

  • Discussed goals, logistics for meeting tomorrow

  • Talked about remaining tasks for website

  • Be careful to not stray too far away from computing

• Presentation

  • Title

  • Team

  • Movie Overview

  • Any combination after this point

  • Conclusions from a part of the story that a conclusion can be created with multiple topics from

    • Adam playing vr videogames

    • Lewis (dad’s) ip on his personal chip

    • Ships safety feature (biometric scanned little adam)

    • Theft of the ship justified?

    • Movie emphasizes the importance of upholding ethics and tech standards

      • Adam’s dad made ethical mistakes in creating the technology

      • Just because you CAN doesn’t mean you SHOULD

  • Overarching conclusion

• Revisiting past tasks and coming up with ideas

  • 3 Networked Communications

    • Shivali M

      • When adam was leaving the planet, he jammed the signals from his planet

      • Sorian found his quantam signature to trap him in the past timeline (2022)

      • Being able to time travel and communicate with themselves from the past. Its almost like a zoom call that is for time travel.

  • 4 Intellectual Property

    • Matt Adragna

      • Closed circuit device to protect IP

      • dangers of stolen IP

      • Details on what is and is not IP

      • His algorithm is a “trade secret”

  • 5 Information Privacy

    • Brandon L

      • Closed circuit device for algorithm

        • Justifies his dangerous invention

      • His location was constantly being tracked by Sorian

      • Laura got information on Sorian and Sorian banished her

        • Not information privacy, but information corruption

        • Removing the freedom of speech

        • pander to Prof. by mentioning your ethical approach/theories

      • part of freedom of speech is staying silent (information privacy) and the other part is when you are free to share your thoughts (still part of the privacy)

  • 6 Privacy and the Government

    • Brandon L

      • Note Sorian's call to the secretary

      • Government should enforce more regulations

        • Censorship

      • Did the government do anything to stop/limit the development of the accelerator

        • it almost killed everything in it's vicinity after one gunshot hit the glass

        • Sorian is a private company

  • 7 Computer and Network Security

    • Shivali M

      • In addition to what is already on the website

        • With great power comes great responsibility - the accelerator

        • Little Adam flying the plane (uses DNA recognition)

  • 8 Computer Reliability

    • Dylan

      • How the ships break down

      • Time travel is tricky

      • Additional details written on website

  • 10 Work and Wealth

    • Matt Adragna

  • Plot Timeline

    • Dylan

  • Filmmaker’s intent

    • Matthew Amodea

    • NOTE: SCOPE OF THIS DOES NOT INVOLVE COMPUTER ETHICS

      • director

        • Likes movies that arent just one thing

        • Heavily inspired by star wars

      • screen writer

      • author of adapted material

      • producer

      • tech consultants

      • Etc

      • Family ties beyond technology

        • Video games

        • Lewis with his job

        • His wife is alone

      • Big money tainting tech industry

        • Sorian is corrupt

          • Lewis’s concept was pure and science motivated

          • Sorian was with that but then got corrupted by money

      • Larger picture stuff

        • Nature and technology coexist

          • Smart house, big windows. In the middle of the woods

        • Tech isnt the only thing to drive the story

          • Nature was just as important as the jet

          • Family narrative over time travel

      • Carelessness in technology

        • Moment when he takes chip out of reactor

      • Wanted to raise thought provoking dilemmas to the viewer

        • Should dad know he dies that year?

  • Societal conclusions

    • Matthew Amodea

• Outcomes:

  • Meeting tomorrow, 4/28 @3 then quick break then @5:30 for those available

  • Finish all but societal conclusions for website before @2:30

  • Finish your portion of the presentation so we can turn in the presentation and rehearse tomorrow night

4/28 Meeting 3:00 (Zoom)

• Goals:

  • Finish Presentation

  • Finalize societal conclusions, 3 main points

• Notes:

  • Discussed reorganizing the presentation

  • Changed it to start focus from movie events, then extract conclusions

  • Reevaluated the purpose of plot timeline, it should really be the “significant computing events” in the movie

  • Refined our conclusions

    • Nature and Human Relationships, are they impacted by technology?

    • Big Money Corrupts the Tech Industry

    • Computer Security, especially with dangerous systems

      • Modern day example: data gathering

• Outcomes:

  • Work individually, meet again at 5:30 to finish presentation

4/28 Meeting 5:30 (Zoom)

• Goals:

  • Finish presentation

  • Practice presentation

• Notes:

  • Finalized slides, refined societal conclusions:

  • Nature and Human relationships → spend less time w/ tech, more w/ family and nature

  • Big Money corrupts tech → don’t be motivated by money

  • With great power… → if making a powerful device, be sure it is secure

• Outcomes:

  • Finished presentation

  • Number images and give sources

  • Turn in presentation (Dylan)

  • Finish website over the weekend

4/29 Meeting 2:00 (Zoom)

• Goals:

  • Polish presentation, address Professor’s email

  • Practice presenting

• Notes:

  • Discussed adding speaker notes to slides

• Outcomes:

  • Present!

  • Work on website over the weekend

5/2 Meeting (Zoom)

• Goals:

  • Finish Website

• Notes:

  • Worked on individual pages

  • Discussed organization of Societal Conclusions page

    • Simple to avoid redundancy

    • Refers to previous pages and their detailed arguments

  • Discussed Film Maker’s intent page

    • Should look for secondary articles on Levy’s previous work

• Outcomes:

  • Everyone will finish their respective page before meeting tomorrow

  • Meeting tomorrow at 2:00 to polish website

5/3 Meeting (Zoom)

• Goals:

  • Polish website

• Notes:

  • Matt Amodea still needs to do his part, Film Maker’s intent

  • Both Matts need to finish About Us page

• Outcomes:

  • Website done, group project done

  • HAGS