1BA6 Green Group Class Presentation - Topic 1 Green Group-Motion  The Motion: IT Is Changing Society For The Better  “...so with a hundred other ‘modern improvements’..... our inventions are wont to be pretty toys which distract our attention from serious things. They are but an improved means to an unimproved end..…” Henry Thoreau

1BA6 Green Group Class Presentation - Topic 2 Our Position:Against The Motion  Words from the Man  IT and US - The Slippery Slope

1BA6 Green Group Class Presentation - Topic 3 The Green Team  Leader: Jon Lee  Speaker 1: Ian Kelly  Helpers: David Langley  Speaker 2: Peter Gray  Helpers: Shane Dowling Gamal Hilal  Speaker 3: Eoin McLoughlin:  Helper: Wayne Walsh  Summary: Jon Lee  Helpers: Derek Fitzgerald Shane Dowling

1BA6 Green Group Class Presentation - Topic 4 Our Argument  Speaker 1 : Ian Kelly – “Privacy”  What does the motion mean? Definition of keywords.  Government Monitoring   Super Spam  Speaker 2 : Peter Gray – “IT and the Military”  Point 1 - IT has removed us from the seriousness of war  Point 2 - Technological solutions to deep problems  Point 3 - Military cost to society  Speaker 3 : Eoin McLoughlin – “Fraud”  Point 1 - Reproducing Data  Point 2 - Piracy  Point 3 - Actions have consequences  Summary of Group’s Argument: Jon Lee

1BA6 Green Group Class Presentation - Topic 5 Green Group-Motion  The Motion: IT Is Changing Society For The Better  “...so with a hundred other ‘modern improvements’..... our inventions are wont to be pretty toys which distract our attention from serious things. They are but an improved means to an unimproved end..…” Henry Thoreau

1BA6 Green Group Class Presentation - Topic 6 Definitions IT : The development, installation, and implementation of computer systems and applications (dictionary.com) Society: The totality of social relationships among humans Information Technology and Society “...so with a hundred other ‘modern improvements’..... our inventions are wont to be pretty toys which distract our attention from serious things. They are but an improved means to an unimproved end..…” Henry Thoreau

1BA6 Green Group Class Presentation - Topic 7 Speaker 1: Ian Kelly  Privacy

1BA6 Green Group Class Presentation - Topic 8  September 11 th  The PATRIOT Act  Government agencies have access to financial, medical records without court orders  Based only on suspicion

1BA6 Green Group Class Presentation - Topic 9 GMail  -faster/cheaper  Means improvred  Content Overseen

1BA6 Green Group Class Presentation - Topic 10 SUPER SPAM!!!

1BA6 Green Group Class Presentation - Topic 11 Green Group-Motion  The Motion: IT Is Changing Society For The Better  “...so with a hundred other ‘modern improvements’..... our inventions are wont to be pretty toys which distract our attention from serious things. They are but an improved means to an unimproved end..…” Henry Thoreau

1BA6 Green Group Class Presentation - Topic 12 Speaker 2 : Peter Gray  IT and the Military

1BA6 Green Group Class Presentation - Topic 13 IT and the Military  IT has removed us from the seriousness of war  Allows (advanced) troops to stay a safe distance from targets  The human element has been removed from war  “It’s just like a video game”

1BA6 Green Group Class Presentation - Topic 14 IT and the Military Range of US Missiles

1BA6 Green Group Class Presentation - Topic 15 IT and the Military  Technological Solutions to Deep Problems  It has become increasingly easier for countries with “Digital Armies” to start wars  Because it is easier to start wars, the world has become a less peaceful place  Although less cost to human life (to digital armies), more deaths to non digital armies

1BA6 Green Group Class Presentation - Topic 16 IT and the Military  Military cost to Society  Military spending detracts from spending directed to areas for social funding.  Military spending is helping the US National Debt to grow by an average of $1.61 billion per day since September 30, 2003! U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK The Outstanding Public Debt as of 16 Nov 2004 at 11:35:45 AM GMT is:

1BA6 Green Group Class Presentation - Topic 17 IT and the Military  Summary  Through the points that IT has removed us from the seriousness of war, Technological solutions to deep problems and the Military cost to society, IT has made it easier to commit immoral acts in war.  Bibliography  Warhead Launch -  Iraqi Shooting -  Range of US Missiles -  Number of Coalition casualties -  Number of Iraqi Casualties -  US Debt Counter -

1BA6 Green Group Class Presentation - Topic 18 Green Group-Motion  The Motion: IT Is Changing Society For The Better  “...so with a hundred other ‘modern improvements’..... our inventions are wont to be pretty toys which distract our attention from serious things. They are but an improved means to an unimproved end..…” Henry Thoreau

1BA6 Green Group Class Presentation - Topic 19 Speaker 3 : Eoin McLoughlin  Due to the nature of IT, data can be reproduced extremely quickly. And easily.

1BA6 Green Group Class Presentation - Topic 20 Reproducing Data  Due to the nature of IT, data can be reproduced extremely quickly. And easily.

1BA6 Green Group Class Presentation - Topic 21 Sharing of Copywrited Material BitTorrent [a single file-sharing program] accounts for an astounding 35 percent of all the traffic on the Internet - - more than all other peer-to-peer programs combined - - and dwarfs mainstream traffic like Web pages.

1BA6 Green Group Class Presentation - Topic 22 ‘Piracy’ is rampant

1BA6 Green Group Class Presentation - Topic 23 Actions have consequences

1BA6 Green Group Class Presentation - Topic 24 The Motion  IT causes immoral actions to be taken.  Many may not realise the consequences of their choice.  IT trivializes moral choices  People suffer and lose out because of these decisions.