6 October

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6 October

• Impact of Computers (Really)

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DiscussionComputers in the Arts

• Weve seen
• good and bad androids and robots,
• programs that take over the world,
• technologies that were well used and those that
  were abused
• Overall, is the introduction of computers in the
  arts helpful or harmful?
• Do people learn or are they scared?
• Do they become more aware?

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Tuesday

• Virtual in-class test
• Posted on BlackBoard from 925 1050
• To be taken online, here or wherever you want
• Open book, notes, computer not people
• I will be here and on AIM
• Partner and topic for next paper (more later)

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Impacts that you recognize

• Personal Impact
• Community Impact
• National Impact
• Global Impact
• Future Impact

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Personal Impact

• human interactions
• leisure time
• communications
• relations
• knowledge
• medicine
• schools
• products
• accessibility for the handicapped
• privacy and personal rights
• data banks, computer terminals, data security
• employment
• job opportunities, new careers, the need for
  retraining
• telecommuting, always at work
• replacement of jobs
• business transactions
• automated billing, credit cards, consumer spending

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Community Impact

• employment
• traffic control
• urban planning
• law enforcement

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National Impact

• medicine
• communications media
• the use of information for control
• broadcasting
• elections
• electronic funds transfer
• stock-market transactions
• defense
• surveillance
• national data banks
• employment shifting patterns
• move to information economy
• crime

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Global Impact

• reporting of current events
• world government
• international standards
• exploration of space and sea
• world wide access to data
• global economy

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Future Impact

• computers in the home
• Gaming, learning, electronic mail, shopping,
  business transactions, information processing,
  storage and retrieval
• the home as a work center
• effect on the family unit
• travel
• computer communication as a replacement
• how we travel
• possible disappearance of hard copy
• the cashless society
• the use of robots in industry and in the home

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Assignment Impact of Computers

• Pick a partner and a topic
• Anything that I just talked about
• Examples games, warfare, shopping, journalism,
  education, medicine, government, advertising, law
• Cover
• how computers have changed this area or unmet
  promises of what computers can do
• what has it replaced or what it has brought new
  to society
• facts to support your observations, but go beyond
  the facts and talk about the impact

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Assignment Logistics

• Tell me the topic and both names (IM, email or
  paper)
• Week of the 24th or 31st, Ill meet with each
  team
• Outline of paper
• Sources
• Presentations
• 3 per day, November 15 -22
• Scheduling based on topics