Weekly Journal : Ethics of Technical Takeover

The more software continues to take over every aspect of our lives, the more important it will be for us to take a stand and ensure that our ethics are ever-present in our code. — Bill Sourour

Submission

Submit a Markdown formatted plain text file, named week12_ethics_takeover.md, to the individual portfolio_NETID repository provided for you in the course's Gitlab group.

Specification

Assume you have figured out a way to use technology to obtain the power to wield any influence you want over anyone or any number of people you want (essentially world domination):

• what would you do with that power?
• why, what are your goals?
• what results do you expect or hope for?
• would you share this power? with whom and why?
• would you want it known that you have this power or not? why or why not?

Note, this is not really all that hypothetical — in some countries citizens fear their government has already harnessed technologies to give them ultimate power. Using your technical skills: describe how you think technology might be used to give you this power or to distribute it.