1. COMP 381

2. Today’s agenda  Attendance and introductions Wait List  What will the course entail? www.cs.unc.edu/Courses/comp381-s11 Structure Assignments  Fly through of the topics  Inventions and inflection points

3. Inflection Points  A bend or change in the course or direction  What inventions have created inflection points in man’s history?

4. Inventions  Fire  Gunpowder  Internal combustion engine  Automobile  Written language  Airplane  Printing press  Air conditioning  Steam engine  Computer  Telephone  Electricity  Penicillin  Wheel  Internet  Contraceptive pill  Central heating  Train  Photography

5. Evaluating Technology  What were the positive and negative impacts of those inventions?

6. Inflection Points in History PositivesNegatives  privacy  family  quality of life  survival  expanding human reach  expanding knowledge  expanding economy  democratization  privacy invasion  disintegration of family  health  pollution  danger / misuse  misinformation  work abuse

7. How to Evaluate  What characteristics do you want for a system that you use to evaluate?

8. Criteria for Ethical Systems  balance of justice and mercy  protect individual freedoms and rights no individual can/should impede or hurt another individual  recognizes unethical laws  flexibility  dealing with relativism societal balance