- For example, connect privacy and big data issues using the example of Target realizing a man’s daughter was pregnant before he did.
- Another example: discuss the social and privacy implications of new technologies such as Google Glass and 3D printing.
- Additionally, use this video about hypothetical augmented reality to start a discussion about the implications of such technology.
- Other potential discussion topics include:
- The connection between internet servers’ and data centers’ power consumption with environmental issues.
- The connection between electronic voting and usability of computing systems.
- The connection between digital data and visual representation.
- The connection between software reliability and beginning programming, debugging, and software development.
- The connection between cell tower function and global development.
- The connection between sorting and searching and how people perceive information and biases in computing systems.
- The connection between bias in sorting and Saber, an original air travel booking system that sorted airlines alphabetically, which favored American Airlines.
- Having students present or write a paper about current events in computer science can interest and engage them in these issues, too.