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James.D.Carmine

James Carmine, PhD, (Geek Ethicist) Philosophy and Ethics Professor. Professor Carmine has taught ethics and moral reasoning for over thirty years in small colleges, large public universities and public schools. Send your ethics dilemmas to geekethicist@gmail.com. More info: https://www.carlow.edu/about/administration/faculty-directory/james-carmine/
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Geek Ethicist: YUCK! Maybe Not

“Dear Ethicist– A couple of months ago I was sitting in a waiting room, flipping through magazines when I found an article that said smartphones (and tablets!) have more germs…

dna

DNA Storage: Life as Knowledge

500 KB double sided double density mini floppies, 3×5 hard disks, flash drives, usb drives, magnetic tape, removable hard drives…oh, the many and the fallen! History, littered with the remains…

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Geek Ethicist: Love’s Liars Online

“Dear Ethicist– What’s wrong with “sculpting” the truth on online dating sites? Women get breast implants, which is essentially false advertising (or “falsies advertising”) but men fall for that. So…

Aaron Swartz

Why They Killed Aaron Swartz

This will be the question of our decade. Swartz’s father claims the government killed him. Many journalists assert Swartz’s brain chemistry and circumstances killed him… Baloney. Certainly his depression, added…

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dot.God

131 years ago, Nietzsche stated: “God is dead.” But God is not dead. God–in any and all forms–is very much alive, especially online. Judging from online Presence alone, God  might…

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Icons: Best Metaphor Wins

TWENTY SECONDS.  Website icons are visual metaphors. Quickly, within the mere twenty seconds you have to draw someone into the content of your website, an effective icon connects different pages…

Icon Contests are Crowdsourcing

Back to crowdsourcing! The fact is crowdsourcing is more common and easier than we often think.  In a nutshell, crowdsourcing is the idea of putting a task into the hands…

The Next Big Money Makers

With the rise of gTLDs (generic Top Level Domains), I thought I would begin an intermittent series of crystal ball readings on what the new .com revolutions of the 2-year…

Geek Ethicist

Geek Ethicist: Murphy’s Law of Email

“Dear Ethicist– I recently received a long, personal email from a complete stranger. The email was not addressed to me, so I can only guess that they misspelled the email…

Philosoraptor and Charlie Bit My Finger

Politics of Memes: Memevertising Part I

Eastwooding empty chairs, Women in binders,  now Horses and bayonets, “ermahgerd!” where is the chubby bubble girl  and why do bronies even exist?  Didn’t South Park already make the point?  Tebowing…

.family 2013

According to a recent New York Times piece by Matt Richtel marriages in much of the world rarely last much longer than a decade or so. He suggests that marriage itself…