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Charvi Bhargava Professor Johnston ISLA 303
14 December 2018
Final Thoughts
I would like to start off with how much I enjoyed this class. Being a computer science
student, I haven’t had the chance to think about technology and values from a non-coding perspective. While we take a class on professional ethics, I valued this class in that it was taught from a different point of view and we take a more social approach to the topic. It is vital that the next generation (not only of computer scientists but literally everyone) is aware of the effect of their work and truly realize their purpose in producing new technologies. In this class we went over a myriad of topics that attack the dilemmas that come with the intersection of values and technology. In this final reflective essay, I’ll talk about my perspective on these issues.
So is all technology progress? What exactly is the difference between progress and change? I would say that progress is change that takes society further in the right direction. Change can just be anything, including movements and developments that take us backwards as a society or don’t even move us at all. I feel that change is something people long for, hell, Obama even ran his campaign on the simple promise of change! He didn’t even say progress, just change. Change doesn’t always mean progress, however, it can even mean regression. There’s a saying that goes, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” I agree with this to a certain extent. Yes, there’s no need to go around messing with things that are already working fine. However, I believe that that is how innovation happens. Innovation is creating solutions for things that aren’t