tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post4806461132788082469..comments2024-03-07T14:43:21.888-08:00Comments on Whatever I want to write about: The robots are coming, the robots are coming. Wait, they are already here!Sriram Khéhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907731254833435446noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post-39752866752993872642015-07-03T08:50:23.920-07:002015-07-03T08:50:23.920-07:00Ramesh, "business ethics" is an oxymoron...Ramesh, "business ethics" is an oxymoron ... muahahahaha ;)<br />I find it bizarre that the professions do not drill into their best and brightest the need to understand and implement ethical practices. A mere one course in the curriculum is not how it can be done, but requires a set of courses ... oh, wait, we have it and is called "liberal education" ... but, oh, wait, everybody is ready to discredit liberal education :(<br /><br />And that discrediting of liberal education is what Anne saw in the ad that she refers to. it is not merely the boring lives but the near-certainty that they will be doing their part to further diminish our collective identity as humans ... if only people will understand that life is not merely about how much they earn and how many toys they own to entertain themselves :(Sriram Khéhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06724218458246880137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post-19437088766787562522015-07-02T21:38:05.049-07:002015-07-02T21:38:05.049-07:00Yes, the robots worry me, but I want to comment on...Yes, the robots worry me, but I want to comment on a different topic mentioned slightly: "computer science students are not advised to take courses in the humanities and the social sciences."<br /><br />I came home late from work and had already read the comics for the day, which is my usual routine when the kids are not here. As such I turned on the television to an old sitcom and half-listened. The same ad ran twice for a medical degree program called Everest, I think. One student says she chose Everest because they don't make her take a lot of classes she doesn't need, the way a typical college would. I shook my head in disbelief. All those "unnecessary" classes are so necessary to life, to being a productive citizen, an interesting person. How can literature and history and math and art history and economics be unnecessary? That student and her fellow classmates have the potential for boring lives if they don't take the time to learn about all those other fields! <br />Anne in Salemnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post-40395024867995899262015-07-02T18:35:13.904-07:002015-07-02T18:35:13.904-07:00A familiar theme in your blog and thankfully not a...A familiar theme in your blog and thankfully not as morbid as one other favourite theme :)<br /><br />Yes, you are right to raise concern about the direction and pace in which automation and dependence on machines is taking place. Yes, it is right that you should plead for a more rounded education for those trying to become geeks. Ethics should be compulsory exploratory course for virtually any branch of study - for eg it is even more important in the business world or in the world of medicine. The issue which you touch upon - the comp-lete loss of privacy , distresses me no end. George Orwell got it a bit wrong. It has not been a tyrannical government that has brought things to this pass; it is us , almost voluntarily.<br /><br />But doomsday ??? No. I think there is a "end of the world fascination gene" in all of us !!!Rameshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11782192840421019943noreply@blogger.com