CGS 3095: Technology in the Global Arena

Choose an emerging technology (broadly defined, and if you are unsure, please email or Canvas message me) and compose a paper of seven or more pages introducing the technology in context, and discuss its current and future impacts in terms of at least two of the course objectives listed below:

Discuss the legal, ethical, and social impacts of technology and how the global reach of the Internet affects these issues.

Discuss the legal, ethical, and social impacts of technology as related to individual privacy, security, and anonymity across the globe and in the global Internet society.

Discuss a computing professional’s roles and responsibilities as related to intellectual property, privacy, anonymity, legal, social, and ethical issues.

• Identify the special issues that virtual worlds and social media present to intellectual property, privacy, security, anonymity, social identity, and social inclusion.
• Identify the global impacts of the technological divide among diverse populations around the world.