Ethics Analysis and Critical Thinking-

The ethical outcomes we want you to achieve is done by considering some thought provoking ethical dilemmas:

(- Listen, don't mention the war. I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it all right. - - Basil Fawlty, Fawlty Towers , 1975).

Let's take the BIG PICTURE approach with some thought provoking current controveraries and determine the correct behavioural response. This can be done with activities that search and explore the meaning of justice and fairness: - What is the right thing to do? - Michael J Sandel, 2009 http://www.gov.harvard.edu/people/faculty/michael-sandel

The big picture approach with such controversies challenges your thinking by working through conflicts that force you to make sense of morality and your own convictions - onward and upward via philosophy, ethics, morality, justice.

1. In this task choose and consider ANY TWO of the cases as listed in the 8 current ICT controversies below.

2. In your Project Blog consider and write about the issues of justice and fairness involved and suggest -What is the right thing to do? in both cases.

3. Share your findings with others via the Ethical Analysis Discussion Board setup for this task in Interact2.

CURRENT CONTROVERSIES IN ICT

1. Where has all the data gone? Service providers capturing metadata;

2. What is the human impact on the use of drones?

3. How will quantum coding on a silicon chip change computer architecture?

4. 3D printing of organ tissue in the operating theatre; (http://3dprinting.com/bio-printing/ and http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v32/n8/full/nbt.2958.html

5. Do individual rights and the common good conflict?

6. Social Relationships in Electronic Forums and Social Media: Tinder Case Study

7. Is Artificial Intelligence a Threat to Humanity?

8. Have you got an answer to Alan Turing's infamous question "Can Machines Think?"? (Nested question).