In previous entries
in Soapbox, on webcams and cyberbabies, the authors reflected on the challenges
that technologies pose to contemporary humans in their attempts to achieve good
– decent and/or happy – lives in common, for themselves and others. The proposed
ways to face those challenges were tied to education. A somehow shared idea was
that individuals should be, first, raised in specific ideas, values, and
practices, such as civility, respect for others, etc., and, second, that they
should be educated for thinking and approaching technologies in certain ways...
