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Personal and Professional Ethics

Working is a part of life, and life will always produce ethical dilemmas. Thus, everyone who works must face professional ethical challenges. However, personal and professional ethics are not necess...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:59:00 GMT

Frontiers

Since the creation of the atomic bomb during World War 2 and the subsequent arms race with the Soviet Union, we have had the ability to destroy ourselves completely as a species.  The fundamenta...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 12:01:00 GMT

Patent Law

Most people remember the good old Napster days.  MP3s and broadband Internet access were new and amazing, CD burners were becoming common, and finding any music track you wanted was only a matter...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Apr 2006 17:40:00 GMT

Digital Copyrights and Downloading

Whatever the ultimate effects of computers and the Internet on music end up being, it seems clear that the recording industry as we know it is on its way out.  As technology continues to improve,...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:33:00 GMT

Technology and Family History Work

Genealogy and the technology available to carry it out have exploded in the last twenty years.  Thanks to computers and the Internet we have access to massive databases of genealogical informatio...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:32:00 GMT

Women in Computing

Why are there so few women in computer science? I think one contributing factor is explained by socialization and emotional escape. In my experience, many of the people in the computer science major...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Mar 2006 10:13:00 GMT

Technology and the Church

             As the Church continues to emerge from obscurity and becomes increasingly high-profile, its embrace of technology is playing an impor...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:37:00 GMT

The Age of Terrorism

The convenience and anonymity of the Internet have certainly made identity theft easier. With everything from credit card information to social security numbers stored online, the risk of having your...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:37:00 GMT

Societal Values, Internet Safety

The Internet is in one sense wholly new and without precedent. Fifty years ago, as the first artificial satellites were launched, few could have predicted that the telecommunications revolution would...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:36:00 GMT

The Digital Age

I think that the Internet's most significant contribution to the news is not its ability to serve up and sort it in prodigious volume (which it does extremely well), but its ability to make us all new...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:33:00 GMT