Cramming for Ethics in Tech

I'm cramming for my conversation next week about ethics and tech,
and as I prepare I thought it would be a fun way to add some
transparency to the process. Usually when I prepare for a big
episode I reach out to folks in my network, I dig for sources, I
spend a lot of time with the topic in my head. When I thought
about who I should reach out to as I think about the roots of
some of the issues we'll cover next week, I wondered, who might
help me with something of a literature review on the ethics and
philosophy part. As we know - but sometimes forget - many of the
questions that we're asking today about ethics relevant to
computer science have been asked before. There are entire schools
of thought dedicated, scholars who've spent lifetimes... but I
haven't reached back to those texts in forever, maybe you haven't
either. So I did what anyone would do...


John P. Cleary is my high school philosophy teacher, and the
first person who came to mind when I considered who would make
time for me as I cram for this interview. He's a busy guy, an
Assistant Professor at Raritan Valley Community College, an
acclaimed stage actor, and restorer of his cabin in the woods,
where I imagine he'll one day sip brandy and read poetry by a
wood stove. We caught up for a bit before diving in, but the
questions you hear me refer to are ones that I shot him over
Facebook Chat, where he and I keep in occasional touch.


Enjoy my chat with John, it's a prep call for next weeks episode
on Ethics in Tech, but if, like me, you're looking for a lit
review to help you think about the scholarly history of some of
civilizations' thorniest questions, here it is...


Links:


Joe Kincheloe, The Sign of the Burger:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2255502.The_Sign_of_the_Burger


Nat'l Association of Media Literacy: https://namle.net/


Zimyatin's WE, Russian novel:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel)


Neil Postman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Postman


Martin Heidegger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Heidegger


Jurgen Habermas:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Habermas


McLuhan's Mechanical Bride:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mechanical_Bride


Donna Haraway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Haraway


Kaku, Physics of the Impossible:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics_of_the_Impossible


Also Mentioned:


Mary Shelly


Orwell


Huxley


Kelner


Noam Chomsky


Sartre


Friedrich Nietzsche


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