| ) Who
should control our personal information?
What will happen when an individual’s
genome is routinely digitized and
archived? Who should control such
information? The government? The private
sector? The individual? How can such
information be secured? How does this
information benefit and imperil an
individual?
2) Why is it important that developed countries not simply leave behind the developing world as they continue to innovate? Is Thomas Friedman correct in his statement that information technology is bridging the gap and allowing geniuses in developing countries to “innovate without having to emigrate?” |
oral reports on:
Computation (top 500 supercomputer sites)
Center for Responsible Nanotechnology
Peer review of Paper #1
Rives: "If I controlled the Internet" (a poem) |
6 min |
Oral reports on:
Henry H. Goddard
Rosalind Franklin
 |
Ray Kurzweil:
How technology's accelerating ... 23 min |
|
Craig Venter:
On the verge of creating ... 34 min |
The Global Strategy Institute’s Video Interview Library for interviews with the following experts on technology:
Kelly Carnes, President & CEO, TechVision21
Anthony Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health
Joel Garreau, journalist, The Washington Post, and author, Radical Evolution
Ray Kurzweil, inventor, futurist, and author of The Singularity is Near
October 7
Times and Issues Forum
From PBS, segment about genetically modified salmon:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/harvest/etc/video.html
5 min.
Response Paper #2: using the above videos, respond to one of the following:
due: October 12
October 9: No class