https://padlet.com/susanne_pratt/zsxv6tzmb53i For assessment 1 big issue essay en-us 2018-04-04 01:56:03 UTC 2018-04-10 22:49:19 UTC hello@padlet.com susanne_pratt https://padlet.com/susanne_pratt/zsxv6tzmb53i/wish/248347460 Add your thesis statement to this padlet. Include your name in the title. Also include:

• What is your big issue? 
• What lens are  you using?

]]> 2018-04-04 01:56:36 UTC https://padlet.com/susanne_pratt/zsxv6tzmb53i/wish/248347460 https://padlet.com/susanne_pratt/zsxv6tzmb53i/wish/248392845 Post-modern lense
-Lachlan]]> 2018-04-04 07:32:42 UTC https://padlet.com/susanne_pratt/zsxv6tzmb53i/wish/248392845 https://padlet.com/susanne_pratt/zsxv6tzmb53i/wish/248397124
Tebeya
Issue: AI Emotions
Psychoanalytic lens]]> 2018-04-04 07:51:48 UTC https://padlet.com/susanne_pratt/zsxv6tzmb53i/wish/248397124 https://padlet.com/susanne_pratt/zsxv6tzmb53i/wish/248397258 Increasing use of technology allows for surveillance and the removal of privacy through both governmental and industry powers.
- Viewed through psychoanalytic lens
Surveillance, Privacy, Power]]> 2018-04-04 07:52:27 UTC https://padlet.com/susanne_pratt/zsxv6tzmb53i/wish/248397258 https://padlet.com/susanne_pratt/zsxv6tzmb53i/wish/248397689 Human enhancement and genetic engineering in science fiction promotes the notion that the creator of a technology embedded with in a human, then becomes the owner of said Human. However, this encourages the question, what is it to be human, at what point are we no longer so, what rights do we have over our own self?]]> 2018-04-04 07:54:44 UTC https://padlet.com/susanne_pratt/zsxv6tzmb53i/wish/248397689 https://padlet.com/susanne_pratt/zsxv6tzmb53i/wish/248397784

• In the field of human enhancement, technology has the ability to provoke responses that either warns or encourages us to push beyond social, ethical and technological boundaries

]]> 2018-04-04 07:55:16 UTC https://padlet.com/susanne_pratt/zsxv6tzmb53i/wish/248397784 https://padlet.com/susanne_pratt/zsxv6tzmb53i/wish/248398000 the concept of humanity is brought into question when one considers whether it stems from nature or nurture]]> 2018-04-04 07:56:26 UTC https://padlet.com/susanne_pratt/zsxv6tzmb53i/wish/248398000 https://padlet.com/susanne_pratt/zsxv6tzmb53i/wish/248745299 What would we gain from having "nature" be more present in science fiction? 

ecocriticism lens ]]> 2018-04-05 05:31:59 UTC https://padlet.com/susanne_pratt/zsxv6tzmb53i/wish/248745299 https://padlet.com/susanne_pratt/zsxv6tzmb53i/wish/249396886 When presented with the notion of feminism and its relation to Human Enhancement and Genetic Engineering (HEGE), we find women are largely mis-represented and under-researched. 

(sorry thought this has posted weds but just seen that it didn't!!!!)]]> 2018-04-07 05:47:15 UTC https://padlet.com/susanne_pratt/zsxv6tzmb53i/wish/249396886 https://padlet.com/susanne_pratt/zsxv6tzmb53i/wish/250133908 The environment is vital to the stability of the human condition.

]]> 2018-04-10 06:56:49 UTC https://padlet.com/susanne_pratt/zsxv6tzmb53i/wish/250133908 https://padlet.com/susanne_pratt/zsxv6tzmb53i/wish/250151787 The impact of technologies on speculative science fiction worlds when viewed from a post colonial lens reflects the social moral and ethical consequences found in the external control and exploitation of people in the colonisation process. ]]> 2018-04-10 08:04:16 UTC https://padlet.com/susanne_pratt/zsxv6tzmb53i/wish/250151787 https://padlet.com/susanne_pratt/zsxv6tzmb53i/wish/250163120 The postmodern perspective towards the implementation of human enhancement technologies and genetic engineering (HET/GE) has been complicated due to the ill-defined standards of this issue in today’s society, however it is still viewed as a beneficial technology that will one day change the human race.]]> 2018-04-10 08:44:31 UTC https://padlet.com/susanne_pratt/zsxv6tzmb53i/wish/250163120 https://padlet.com/susanne_pratt/zsxv6tzmb53i/wish/250222729 Unless society is able to accept AI as existing beyond human concepts of gender, AI will  adopt and replicate the systemic bias of western patriarchy and the sexist stereotypes stemming from this. ]]> 2018-04-10 12:23:12 UTC https://padlet.com/susanne_pratt/zsxv6tzmb53i/wish/250222729 juarez_ramirez_alaudidade https://padlet.com/susanne_pratt/zsxv6tzmb53i/wish/250507812 Statment: "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights" (United Nations General Assembly, 1948). As long as they are born from human cells, all in vitro fertilized babies including clones are human beings and therefore have the same rights, individuality and independence as any other.
~Biotech and cloning
~Human Rights]]> 2018-04-10 22:27:02 UTC https://padlet.com/susanne_pratt/zsxv6tzmb53i/wish/250507812