week 4 - reading assignment 04
read three articles and respond with three questions for each.
- Are computer's now inherently corrupt due to there association with weaponry?
- Or are computers simply machines developed with one basal function that has now expanded and evolved to something with seemingly endless possibilities and has lost any direct corruption from the early influences?
- Do you believe the computer would have been established without the military aspect sooner or later?
- Was everyone a little baffled with the way so much of our lives has been modeled off of military proceedures?
- And don't you find it interesting that the fundamental reasoning into the necessity of a military stems from fear, it seems only too natural for humans to allow fear to dictate their every functioning, always precautionary.
- Although not a question, I think it is totally worth it to mention that in my engineering experience I have come across many people (incidentally mostly men) who have come back to school as it is being funded by their military career.
- Did the origin of ARPANET as a tool primarily used in academia and the military taint the extension of the World Wide Web?
- In what ways did Lee's background predispose him to invent the World Wide Web?
- I wonder if their is a correlation between the development of credit cards and the commercialization of the Web into a buyer's market?
I'm not sure if corruption is the right word -- because technologies are effecting changes within the social system all the time. It is perhaps merely that technologies affect us. And the positive/negative aspects need to be individually figured out. The sourcing of computing technology from areas of our system that are called 'military' doesn't condemn the technology any more than it says it is a good thing (value judgements are probably not so helpful in the discussion, rather it's important to remember that any technology has an effect on the system and the individuals participating in the system ). It's more important to figure out what [all] the effects are!
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