Abstract:In one of my classes at the School of Informatics and Computing, IUPUI, students write final papers about an emerging information technology they can envision amplified in the future. Pick a technology; now imagine it times a million: Is it heaven, or hell? Some extreme characterization is important. Unless that vision elicits some deep hope or fear, the students have a hard time psyching themselves up for a respectably long paper-"long paper" meaning maybe 10 to 12 pages (half or a third what I would have wri… Show more
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