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Examines technology, the ways it adds to or hinders knowledge, ways it can manipulate ideas and the relationship between technology and ethics.
Key questions:
Has technology changed the nature of knowledge?
Does technology support or prevent us from gaining knowledge of the world?
Should ethical considerations limit technological advances?
What are the ethics of data collection? Who bears the burden? How do we balance privacy concerns with the practical benefits of data-gathering?
Can a machine be said to "KNOW" something?
Lemoine, an engineer for Google’s responsible AI organisation, described the system he has been working on as sentient, with a perception of, and ability to express, thoughts and feelings that was equivalent to a human child.
How has technology impacted collective memory and how knowledge is preserved?
Does technology allow knowledge to reside outside of human knowers? What is the difference between data, information and knowledge?
We rely on computers to fly our planes, find our cancers, design our buildings, audit our businesses. That's all well and good. But what happens when the computer fails?
How are online or virtual communities similar to/different from “traditional” communities of knowers?
