COURSE READING
WEEK ONE: March 23rd
INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING BODIES OF WAR
READING TOPIC: Introduction to the Ethics of Engineering
WEEK TWO: March 30th
EMBODIED EXOSKELETONS AND PHYSICAL PROSTHETICS
READING TOPIC: Boundaries of Bodies and Ethics
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
"~Albert Einstein
"To do it right (TALOS military suit), you need about a billion dollars. Twenty million dollars a year in an R&D budget--you couldn't even develop a pencil on that."
~Defense Contractor,
Interview with Military.com
"STOP saying 'uh-oh' while you're flying. It's never good. Like going to the dentist or a doctor…'Oops' What the f— do you mean 'Oops?'"
~Camera Operator to Drone Pilot, Jalalabad Air Base, 2014
WEEK THREE: April 6th
ROBOTIC, DRONE, AND UNMANNED ARMIES
READING TOPIC: Robots and Rights of War
WEEK FOUR: April 13th
NEURAL NETWORKING, NANOSCIENCE, AND BIOMETRICS
READING TOPIC: The Networked and Nano Soldier
"You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way."
~Will Rogers
"A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.."
~Albert Camus
WEEK FIVE: April 20th
THE ETHICS OF ENGINEERING, DESIGN, AND DEPLOYMENT
READING TOPIC: Just Wars: Design and Deployment
WEEK SIx: April 27th
ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGIES OF PEACE
READING TOPIC: Designing Technologies of Peace
"The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations."
~David D. Freedman
"To define force—it is that x that turns anybody who is subjected to it into a thing. Exercised to the limit, it turns man into a thing in the most literal sense: it makes a corpse out of him. Somebody was here, and the next minute there is nobody here at all." ~Simone Weil
WEEK SEVEN: May 4th
FINAL PROJECTS
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No Assigned Reading
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