Special Topic: Technology and Ethics in Business and Society

The rapid accelerated development of next-generation emerging technologies outpaces the abilities of business and society to absorb them in a meaningful and, most importantly, ethical manner. This course is a review of the most recently-implemented technologies and those technologies on the horizon of implementation and the ethical issues they pose for modern business and society. The topic of technology and ethics will be investigated from a broad spectrum of perspectives, primarily: philosophical, commercial, social, legal, scholarly, and scientific. Ethical frameworks and value systems will be applied to the development, implementation, adoption, and use of modern emerging technologies with the purpose of equipping students with the intellectual tools that are necessary to exercise sound ethical judgment in 21st-century business and society.