Question: What will things be like 50 years from now?
Will we live surrounded by the kind of "ubiquitous computing" described in the reading titled "As We May Live?"

Will there be computers or computer networks that are "awake" and superhumanly intelligent?

Will vastly improved human-computer interfaces amplify our own intelligence to "superhuman" levels?
Will we achieve a kind of immortality by transferring our own memories (or our entire personalities) into machine storage?

Computer and communication technology has deeply changed the way we interact with other people.
How have technologies affected your relationships with others?
Have there been any social implications?
Has this technology created any ethical dilemmas for you?

Discuss an advantage and disadvantage associated with these rapid changes of pace.

More generally, how do you think the advance of computing technology will impact our world in the next 50 years?
If the things mentioned above do happen, how will they affect us and the way we live?
If they do not happen, what do you think will happen instead?

References:
Chapter 6 from “A Gift of Fire: Social, Legal and Ethical Issues in Computing, 4th Edition, Sara Baase, ISBN-13: 9780132492676, 2013 • Prentice Hall”

Baase, Sara. A Gift of Fire: Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues for Computing and the Internet.
Upper Saddle River, N.J: Prentice Hall, 2012. Print.

Langheinrich, Marc, et al. "As we may live-Real-world implications of ubiquitous computing."
ETH Zurich (2002).

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