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* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|How do people treat non-Homo Sapiens Sapiens?]] [[Fantastic Racism]], treatment of robots, androids, clones, etc.
* What is reality?
* What is consciousness? What is sentience? How does one detect either? What rights does either confer on the being that has it? Should we use artificial neural nets and deep learning?
* [[Romanticism Versus Enlightenment]]: Is human individuality superior to advanced tech, or is it the opposite?
* Individualism vs. Collectivism: Should the rights of the individual be compromised for the better of the group?
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* The individual vs. the corporation vs. the State
* Futility vs. Cautious Optimism
* What is the effect of the boss' and HR's use of the computer, in particular operations research and process management techniques and project management techniques? Has the cybernetic takeover already happened and turned the boss into a figurehead for his computer? Does
* Great Man theory of history versus Big History; the individual versus impersonal forces
* Left wing politics versus the Cold War being long gone
* [[Gaia's Lament]], technological and social innovation
* Survivalism vs. the end of the world eg. is a guy on the internet forum that has five boxes of canned mushrooms and fifty cans of peas and puts a knife on the end of the stick that he found in the park going too far, or not far enough?
* Use of advanced technology by those in abject poverty eg. budget cell phones in Somalia (the telecom industry of which boomed since Barre fell and while there was no longer any functioning State, by the way)
* What relationship does technology have with creativity and expression? Eg, should singers with record deals use pitch correction, also known as auto-tune? Should we use a store-bought, copyrighted, official music CD with an electric violin with lots of other electro-phones, or should we use the Youtube song cover an unknown, but clearly proficient singer made using a cheap webcam, a banjo and the help of her friend on the acoustic violin? Should we rock out to Rage Against the Machine, Krio de Morto, or Othernoises?
* Machine readable language vs. natural language
* COBOL, FORTRAN, C/C++/Microsoft Visual C# vs. Haskell, Gallina, Erlang, Eiffel and RavenSPARK
* MS Windows and MacOS versus Linux and GNU Hurd
* What is efficiency? What is efficient? Is conformity, incumbency and institutionalization efficient, or is logic and simplicity efficient?
* Should we avoid buying integrated circuit containing products to delay the dangers of nanotech?
* Does technology imply belligerence?
=== '''Potential Motifs''' ===
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