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- Multirotor
- Benefit - deliveries, finding lost people, aerial photography
- Harmful -p flying in unregulated zones is illegal and dangerous, privacy concerns
- Will controller
- Benefit - gets people active playing video games
- Harmful - broken tv’s ad injuries
- 3D printers
- Open source software for the computer and printer
- In schools and homes
- New classes developed for 3d printing
- Special 3D printer can make
- organs/prosthetics
- Houses
- Shoes and jewellry
- Dopamine feedback loops
- Computing innovations can be used in ways that their creators had not originally intended
- Responsible programmers try to consider the unintended ways their computing innovation can be used and the potential beneficial and harmful effects of these new uses
- Microtransactions: Free games/apps cosmetics/pay-to-wins/paywalls to functionality
- Gold, v-bucks, coins, chips, SBUX
- Loot boxes that are banned in some countries
- One of the ways computing innovation can be used may have a harmful impact on society, economy, or culture
- It isn’t possible for a programmer to consider all the ways a computing innovation can be used
- Rapid sharing of a program or running a program with a large number of users can result in significant impacts beyond the intended purpose or control of the programmer
- Internet access varies between socioeconomic, geographic, and demographic characteristics, as well as between countries
- The digital “divide” is the differing access to computing devices and the Internet, based on socioeconomic, geographic, and/or demographic characteristics
- Demographic includes: Age Religion
- In some countries: Computers aren’t common in rural areas Only a small number of website available The internet is used to protect/advocate the government There’s a high level of monitoring on the internet to protect the government
- The digital divide can affect both groups and individuals
- The digital divide raises issues of equity, access, and influence, both globally and locally
- The digital divide is affected by the actions of individuals, organizations, and governments