SciFi & Ethics

Watch the clips from these Science Fiction television shows.

Write a post to the class blog and discuss the ethics of the technology shown in these shows and what would have to happen for our current tech and interactions to evolve to these states as shown. Is this how you would like to live? What aspects seem interesting and worth it? What aspects don’t and why? How close are we to the scenarios shown in the Black Mirror Nosedive clips versus The Feed versus Altered Carbon?

• Sci-Fi can teach us a lot about ethics
  by Ruth Bhavsar
  When conceptualizing new technologies and their implementations, it is important to consider the ethics and possible outcomes. Sci-fi books and movies are a brilliant avenue…
• SciFi &Ethics
  by Monica Xu
  After watching the Black Mirror, there are some ethical issues in the technology of this movie. Because of the rating function, people are trying to…
• Virtual Reality=Alternative Reality?
  by Anh Truong
  Death is inevitable, but how to deal with it is varies from person to person. The coronavirus pandemic, for instance, has recently led to a…
• Future technology should focus on giving people more possibilities instead of limiting
  by Betty Deng
  The “Black Mirror” Nosedive clip combines AR technology, social media, and socioeconomic systems. In this worldview, people can rate each other from 1 to 5…
• “Nosedive” versus Real-world
  by DeeDee Kwon
  The “Nosedive” deals with an era in which social network scores determine everything in life. The only person who can decide who “I” is the…
• Thoughts on Privacy in Sci-Fi and IoT
  by Jasmine Sun
  Sci-fi movies bring people not only visual and sensory experience, but also philosophical and political thinking about science and technology and the future. Many sci-fi…
• The Ethics of The Technology
  by Peter Peng
  “Nosedive” not only looks at how social media affects society, but also imagines how it might be changed in the future. The Atlantic describes this…
• A Dystopian Utopia
  by Ted Huang
  When we think about the word “dystopia,” we usually think about movies that have to deal with zombies or catastrophic disasters. We visualize the dystopian…
• Prospects and expectations for future technology
  by Elena Wang
  Now Oculus is selling hot, and people have already experienced the way of playing games and watching 3D movies at home with virtual reality goggles….
• The Future of Technology &Safety
  by Hermione Hu
  Safety is the term that came out of my mind when I was watching those trailers. In the shows, the society is under the control…
• Today’s Sci-Fi Shows, Tomorrow our life?
  by Vincent Chen
  By looking at those Science Fiction television shows, it brings out a lot of really cool idea of how technology in the future might look…
• My thinking of technologies in the future
  by Tai Hao
  If the purpose of technology evolution is to help people to live a better and more convenient life, the new technology-related exploration and experiments are…
• Ethics and Technology
  by Zijie Zhou
  Human beings have never delivered everything we own to a certain creation just like what we do today. Science and technology have already set standards…
• What Will Our Future Community Be Like?
  by Mengyao Xiu
  We are currently living in a world that data and information can be easily shared and used mutually. It is undeniable that a shared community…
• The Ethics of The Technology in Our Life
  by Lylyna Heng
  The Internet of Things Just anything connects to the network is part of the Internet of Things. It fuels the idea of smart phones, smart…
• This Future is Pathetic
  by Brian Zhao
  The Black Mirror clip shows a pathetic view of the future. Everyone is rated by a score and that score will indicate whether or not…
• Tech should adapt to us not us adapting to it.
  by Noah Ahrens
  I find this week’s topic extremely interesting and have given the ethics of technology much thought as it has become more impactful to our lives….
• Immersive Reality
  by John Cho
  Sci-fi shows visualize the extreme prediction of the future with technological advancement. In Black Mirror, an episode Nosedive shows advanced technology by applying augmented reality visible…
• What Is and What Could Be
  by Corey Rossi
  In order for our tech to reach the level of interactivity shown in the sci-fi clips, we would mostly need time. With the Black Mirror…
• The Future of Technology
  by Evan Tang
  The technological advancements present in media and sci-fi shows are extreme predictions that people speculate could happen in the future. The highly technological futures we…
• Reflection
  by Betty Li
  Neil Bozeman said in their “Entertainment to Death” that human beings will be destroyed by what they love. In his view, changes and innovations in…
• Thanks but No Thanks
  by Philip Joo
  The technology presented in these Science Fiction shows isn’t very far off from what we currently have.  For the Black Mirror episode of Nosedive, there…
• The fantasy of Future IoT System
  by Amanda Liu
  *This is a personal prediction of the future IoT system development. It may be biased or inaccurate because of my limited knowledge. IoT serves for…