Every group will consider one of the following topics:

• Online shopping
• Cell phones
• Digital cameras
• Hybrid cars
• Mars rover
• Separation of conjoined twins

Your task is to answer the following question about a particular technology:

• What are social implications of this technlogy? Which groups of people are affected by it, and how? Which of these effects would you classify as negative, which ones as positive, and which ones as unclear or mixed?
• Does this technology affect you personally? If yes, in which ways?
• What ethical issues are associated with this technology? Which groups of people (if any) might consider this technlogy to be ethically questionable and why?

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This page is a part of the course IS 1091 at UMM.