Final Project
The importance of reflexive social institutions with in a medical, environmental, informational., and other technosciences must increasingly operate (Fisher). After reading this statement given by Fisher I first thought about the future of technology and science Kids in the current generation are thrown into STEM schools. Schools that only provide science, technology, engineering, and mathematics is only less than ten percent in the United States. Therefore, outreaching these programs to other countries and think about where it would be beneficial for thee people to be raising STEM students. The ultimate goal is to enhance humanity, but what are the moral responsibilities of citizens. The opportunities that a STEM student receives should be given to all. To have engagement should be given equally with a technological horizon that leads to professionals all over the world.
Women are extremely important to the science and technology world. We are looked over because of the factors that seem trivial to men. What is it about wanting a family that scares these people. Some women in our readings such as Banu Subramaniam author of “Ghost stories for Darwin”. Really show us that there will always be a stigma if women want families and also have a career in technology or science. Smart women know how to manage their time in having the best of both worlds. If a woman decides to have children that should be her choice and hers only, but why its such a vulnerable decision to make is because her career is on the line. In a male dominated career as Science there is no forgiveness for missing out on months of research, work, etc. Women get marked as separate and their bodies are then different and endlessly monitored, Whereas men remain invisible and unmarked. But gender should not be what not what one “has” but what one “does” (Subramaniam).
Where does productivity fit in the technology world when it comes to predicaments such as, hackers. What it means to have face-to-face conversations in this generation is slowly becoming obsolete. TO practice the diversity of hackers with in liberal traditions have been studied by anthropologist. “The anthropological strand we draw on has incisively studied liberalism in the making by attending to the complex intersection between law, society and multicultural politics.” (Coleman and Golub). The way we speak to each other online has given us a shield and enables the internet in maximum openness. Coleman and Golub also conclude that, “Nowhere today are the battles over control, freedom, access and privacy more clearly thermalized than on the internet.” Also in chapter 6 of the Judy Wajcman’s book, Pressed For Time she writes about the different parenting styles on how to monitor your children's usage and intake of the internet. The dynamics of parents and peers of these children teaches them the strengths and weaknesses of technology. Using it to their advantage.
Over the semester we spoke briefly about what it means when anthropologist go in to do ethnographies and recording a lot of their actions. This course could use another aspect of anthropology and a positive outlook on technology. Computing linguistics is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the statistical or rule-based model of natural language from a computational perspective. MIT Press has also published work on Computational Linguistics where industrial linguistics, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence (AI) investigators, cognitive scientists, speech specialists, and philosophers obtain information on how language is processed and used to perform.
https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/coli.07-034-R2
