Question:
Of the issues raised in our readings, to which do you think we need to devote the most effort considering (thinking about, worrying about, encouraging, preventing, etc.)? Why? Explain
Readings:
Einstein’s Letters to FDR – http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/primary-resources/truman-ein39/
Carl Chance: Aerospace and the Cold War – http://www.wingsoverkansas.com/history/a716/
The Conduct of Science in the Information Age – https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=9JGzObZCxo8
The Big Era Eight: A Half Century of Crisis – 1900 to 1950 – http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/eras/era8.php#environment
Philosophical and Ethical Problems of Technicism and Genetic Engineering – http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/v3n1/schuurman.html
Can Nanotechnology Create Utopia? – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzgVWpa4fzU
The Ethics of Human Cloning – http://jme.bmj.com/content/23/6/353.full.pdf
An introduction to the Ethical Issues in Genetically Modified Foods – http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/focusareas/medical/conference/presentations/genetically-modified-foods.html
MMORPG Ethics – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8qEMJIJ4EY
Paul Root Wolpe: It’s time to question bio-engineering – http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Economic-Aspects/Economics-of-Nuclear-Power/
Jonathan Masters – Confronting the Cyber Threat – http://www.cfr.org/technology-and-foreign-policy/confronting-cyber-threat/p15577