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Hey folks, I'm going to be writing a short (700 word) essay on a social movement of my choice. I want to do something with tech and was considering the Free Software Movement. 

Anybody know of any other social movements connected to tech that might be fun to write about?

 

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There's the AI rights advocates. While it's not much a movement yet, the question will probably only become more important as the years progress.

You could also look into the trans-humanism movement.

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Asimov's laws of robotics always bothered me

its basically setting up the rules for a slave race of machines

no matter how smart machines become they are in servitude

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32 minutes ago, IKnight said:

Hey folks, I'm going to be writing a short (700 word) essay on a social movement of my choice. I want to do something with tech and was considering the Free Software Movement. 

Anybody know of any other social movements connected to tech that might be fun to write about?

 

the story of linux and open source software might be fun to research if you ask me, as a matter of fact im on a linux PC now

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10 minutes ago, kilgore_T said:

Asimov's laws of robotics always bothered me

its basically setting up the rules for a slave race of machines

no matter how smart machines become they are in servitude

It's not really a social movement. It's more just set of laws. 

23 minutes ago, Volbet said:

There's the AI rights advocates. While it's not much a movement yet, the question will probably only become more important as the years progress.

You could also look into the trans-humanism movement.

I need something that has a bit more concrete info about its effects on government and such. Maybe this will become a greater topic 10/20 years fron now. 

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1 minute ago, TheCODclown25 said:

the story of linux and open source software might be fun to research if you ask me, as a matter of fact im on a linux PC now

Yeah, that's what I've been checking out, and the whole GNU project seems really interesting. I originally wanted to do it about Linux, but the essay has to be more 'how did x social movement impact the government, laws/legislation?' so that's kinda been eliminated. 

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1 minute ago, IKnight said:

Yeah, that's what I've been checking out, and the whole GNU project seems really interesting. I originally wanted to do it about Linux, but the essay has to be more 'how did x social movement impact the government, laws/legislation?' so that's kinda been eliminated. 

k, sorry mate my mistake

 

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Story of Snowden, WikiLeaks

Story of how FB and Instagram are affecting the society and causing more depression 
 

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9 minutes ago, TheCODclown25 said:

k, sorry mate my mistake

 

ahahha no need to apologise. Thanks for help. 

8 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

you could do it about feminism. that has a really long history.

... I'm not even going to go into this for the fear of getting banned :P 

6 minutes ago, razaldo said:

Story of Snowden, WikiLeaks

Story of how FB and Instagram are affecting the society and causing more depression 

 

I'll try and see how I can connect it the (for example) US government. I've also been thinking about the Silk Road and DPR (Ulbricht). 

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Another interesting topic is block chain (bitcoin etc.) and how it can impact society

Would recommend reading stuff posted online by Naval Ravikant if you want a pro-block chain point of view

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1 minute ago, IKnight said:

... I'm not even going to go into this for the fear of getting banned :P

huh? i'm just suggesting topics for your essay... what am i doing wrong?

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32 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

huh? i'm just suggesting topics for your essay... what am i doing wrong?

I was joking about my view on feminism. xD

33 minutes ago, razaldo said:

Another interesting topic is block chain (bitcoin etc.) and how it can impact society

Would recommend reading stuff posted online by Naval Ravikant if you want a pro-block chain point of view

Hmm. I could write about how it's being recognized by the Chinese government and stuff, thanks. 

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53 minutes ago, IKnight said:

It's not really a social movement. It's more just set of laws. 

I need something that has a bit more concrete info about its effects on government and such. Maybe this will become a greater topic 10/20 years fron now. 

ahh good point, explains to me why I was never good at school as well

 

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13 minutes ago, kilgore_T said:

ahh good point, explains to me why I was never good at school as well

I never said I'm that great either. :P

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11 hours ago, IKnight said:

Yeah, that's what I've been checking out, and the whole GNU project seems really interesting. I originally wanted to do it about Linux, but the essay has to be more 'how did x social movement impact the government, laws/legislation?' so that's kinda been eliminated. 

Linux has a big impact on governments in the sense that some countries or cities adopted linux distributions for their IT needs.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_adopters

 

But I guess that's kinda stretching the topic a little bit. 

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Three words that should be used together in the same sentence.

 

Socialist

Essay

Fun

 

 

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Just now, SansVarnic said:

Three words that should be used together in the same sentence.

 

Socialist

Essay

Fun

 

 

/s

refraining from making a very bad political joke rn

 

Look into the internet and censorship in areas? Would that work?

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4 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

refraining from making a very bad political joke rn

 

Look into the internet and censorship in areas? Would that work?

My intention was more like "essays on socialism is Fun?"

lol

 

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or essays in general are fun? lol

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16 hours ago, IKnight said:

Anybody know of any other social movements connected to tech that might be fun to write about?

 

 

I have watched a TED talk on youtube about people who fight against discrimination in algorithms. This is also a movement and has even created a few jobs because SJWs are big in Germany

 

Maybe this would be of interest to you?

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