wow where did you go that taught tech ethics 20 years ago!? that's hard to find ...

dan-robertson · on March 13, 2021

I really don’t see why this is downvoted as I also thought it was the most interesting part of the parent comment.

My understanding is that ethics courses for students of subjects like computer science are uncommon. Ethics courses for engineering are more common and for law or journalism very common (though the ethics taught for law and journalism is basically opposite).

Towards the end of my degree, some faculty at the university made some attempts to create an ethics course for mathematics students that talked about some issues they might face in industry (popular careers were finance, tech or going to “work for the civil service”)

downrightmike · on March 13, 2021

2001 was about then, so you know other ethical things like worldcom and enron had happened.

xienze · on March 13, 2021

> wow where did you go that taught tech ethics 20 years ago!? that's hard to find anywhere 20 years later

Maybe it’s become rare now, I dunno, but I also took a computer ethics course at my state university about 20 years ago.

vmception · on March 13, 2021

to clarify: the case we were studying at the time is now 20 years old

but yes, was one of my favorite courses. It was basically acknowledging that we will continually be a few decades ahead of any legal framework so it gave us other frameworks to consider in our decision making process

sorry that doesnt answer your main question