CS103F: Ethical Foundations of Computer Science

Blog Post 5

Due Friday, February 22, 2019, by 11:59p

For this blog post, please consider and respond to the events surrounding the Challenger Disaster. These resources may be useful to you:

Lewis, Linda. Remembering Roger Boisjolu, Challenger disaster whistleblower (1938-2012), Whistleblower Support Fund, February 12, 2012.

Kaplan, Sarah. Finally free from guilt over Challenger disaster, an engineer dies in peace, The Washington Post, March 22, 2016.

Zak, Dan. 'We've lost 'em, God bless 'em': What it was like to witness the Challenger disaster, The Washington Post, January 28, 2016.

As you contemplate the Challenger disaster, consider the actions and inactions of people who understood the technology and of people in authority. In particular, consider technology's role in these questions, the role of our tendency towards obedience to authority, and the role of other ethical issues and biases.

Please keep your post to approximately 300 words.

We do expect professional presentation: your spelling and grammar should be correct---you should not be using text shorthand or emojis.

Once you have created your blog post, submit a URL to the relevant assignment on Canvas. When you submit your URL, Canvas will take a snapshot of that URL, so be sure to submit once you are finished with your blog post.

Finally, The Ethics Centre has blog posts that may be useful as examples--they are often longer than your requirement, though. One of the recent good examples is "Why Victims Remain Silent... and Then Find Their Voice".