Hello! Today in my last post I will be talking about a specific ethical theory and how I see it implemented in IT. Theory that I chose is Social Contract Theory by Michael J. Quinn (Firstly by Thomas Hobbes) and it goes like this: "the society should strive to develop a set of rules that make sense to everyone (making people follow them voluntarily). For instance, driving on the right (or in some places, left) could be a common example - drivers keep to the right not for fearing the police but to avoid confusion and possible crashes". This one in specific really caught my eye and I don't know why but I started thinking about Reddit, and how in a way they also have some rules that everyone follows. For example, everyone is anonymous there and if mentions some specific business it is usually also kept secret; in some discussions people turn for help and/or advice and users do the best to help, and usually keep it either in some nice way or just harsh truth (mos
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Disabilities and computers #Week 14
Today I will be talking about something that I have found to be fascinating ever since I was a kid, and that is how people can adapt to certain (body) restrictions. I think the first time I started to think about how people with disabilities or those who are handicap did everyday tasks was when I saw a video on the news of woman knitting with her feet. And it just seemed so interesting and fascinating because I can never imagine doing something like that. And one part of everyday tasks is working with computer, which for people who don't have arms could be quite challenging. So I found 2 ways people have dealt with this limitation and to be honest it is really interesting. First example would be about a man from Bangladesh named Russel. He works at Centre for Disability in Development office and manage to do everything on the computer with his feet (as seen in the picture).And some of his everyday tasks at work include capacity building trainings, go to field to ove