Week readings: Leonardo to the Internet: Chapter 7  The Means of Destruction, Chapter 8 Toward Global Culture, Internet Culture

Week Activities

Assignment 4

Threaded discussion 3 – The prisoners dilemma

Required text

Thomas J. Misa,

Leonardo to the Internet: Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)

•  Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press; second edition edition (June, 2011)

•  ISBN-10: 1421401533

•  ISBN-13: 978-1421401539

Threaded discussion 3

The prisoner’s dilemma

Two members of a criminal gang are arrested and imprisoned. Each prisoner is in solitary confinement with no means of speaking to or exchanging messages with the other. The police admit they don’t have enough evidence to convict the pair on the principal charge. They plan to sentence both to a year in prison on a lesser charge. Simultaneously, the police offer each prisoner a Faustian bargain. If he testifies against his partner, he will go free while the partner will get three years in prison on the main charge. Oh, yes, there is a catch … If both prisoners testify against each other; both will be sentenced to two years in jail.

 
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Occupational Work Ethic Inventory (OWEI) 

http://workethic.coe.uga.edu/cgi-bin/new_owei/owei.pl

 This instrument has been used extensively in research and the electronic version is available to provide a basis for comparing your work ethic to that of others.The inventory provides scores for interpersonal skills, initiative, and being dependable will allow you to determine how you rate on these important areas.

Interactive tutorial of the Moral Theories

http://www.phgfoundation.org/tutorials/moral.theories/index.html

“Moral theories are the frameworks we use to justify or clarify our position when we ask ourselves “what should I do in this situation?” or “what is right or wrong for me?” There are many moral theories and there is no one right theory. They converge and often borrow from one another. Three theories will be described here. Consequentialism and Deontology have dominated moral reasoning over the last 300 years; Bioethics, a common morality theory, is a recent theory that dominates current thinking in health care settings.”

(PGH Foundtion Interactive Tutorials, Moral Theories, Introduction)

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