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”