Five Hundred Years of Computers and Law: A Dystopian Future, Study notes of Computer Science

Download Five Hundred Years of Computers and Law: A Dystopian Future and more Study notes Computer Science in PDF only on Docsity! Vinayak Badrinathan Team #1 500 Years After I Was Born Computers and Law pushl %ebp movl %esp, %ebp “Five hundred years since the release of the first personal computer, and the problems of Computers and Law are still around,” thought Frank. “In the beginning, the computer was never seen as a tool for people to connect through and hopefully improve society. After five hundred years, the third world war started. The way that war started was itself much different from the previous world wars,” he deduced. “In those times, television sets were considered ancient. Many humans wondered why the switch to high definition television was ever released because all it did was create more unusable electronic parts lying around. The war started with a neat television program called DDR DanceOff. Television programs, as they were referred to, were programs that required a lot of user input to actually come up with the show. A normal show was actually created on the fly by the thoughts of the people who were tuned into that channel for that particular program. The North Korean leader, Mao Anti-Amrika started watching his program on his holographic personal computer, he suddenly collapsed and died of a seizure,” typed Frank. “The North Koreans took this as an attack on their leader. The background of DDR DanceOff was dynamically generated by reading the thoughts of their viewers and pumping it through a generation function. Unfortunately, the particular pattern that was generated happened to cause a seizure and a heart attack for Anti-Amrika,” deduced Frank. “What is odd in all of this is that humans, at that time, did not even do any diplomatic work, other than provide a human form for the work of a distributed computing grid,” printed Frank. “In fact, humans did not work at all. More than 98% of all humans watch television programs and play Nintendo Wii 24. The only thing that keeps them fit is the fact that video games keep humans in motion. It is really surprising that people are willing to give up so much information about them. The Nintendo Wii 24 now makes the game customized to the person. For example, in the game Wii Boxing 24, the computer listens to the thoughts of the player and makes it much harder for the player to win. What the humans don’t realize is that Nintendo records this information in their databases and data mine that information and figure out the likes and dislikes of people. This makes it much easier for them to make game covers and advertisements that are customized to the viewer so that they end up wanting the item and buy it,” stored Frank. “Because humans do not read the terms of service, they are giving up their freedom. Nowhere in the terms of service does it mention that the game would do such a thing and yet they don’t care and don’t read the terms of service. All it actually says is the 2475 version of Lorem Ipsum.” “As mentioned earlier, humans do not do any work. This means that the judicial system is composed of computers entirely. Computers represent humans and they make the case. This does not happen literally but the computers that are gathering information in the homes of humans and the outside contain all of the evidence and facts. Those facts are presented and humans are quickly found guilty or not. The time that was spent on a hearing was now shortened to the time it took for the aggregation and analysis of data. The courts, as they are called, are accessible by personal computers. All a person has to do is simply type the issue into a computer and the other parties are quickly informed and the verdict is given the same day,” noted Frank. “The judicial system was starting to become computerized a hundred years after the first personal computer and improvements were made from time to time. In the beginning, cases that people filed included everything from rape to theft to defamation, etc. As the years progressed, the only cases filed by humans were cases involving divorce.