Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement is a 2007 American documentary film written and directed by Alex Jones. According to Wiki, this documentary is about how a group of people reveals an alleged eugenics-obsessed group of global elite whose mission is to eliminate most of the earth's population and the enslavement of the rest. I think that this idea sounds totally crazy and out of this world, yet upon further wiki-ing I found that there really is an Operation Endgame under US government. If there were some truth to this documentary film, a whole lot of ethical issues would arise, for instance the ethicality of using of technology to take over the world, and even the ethicality of creating such technology is the 1st place.

This article is about how nanotechnology can be manipulated to make beef. According to the article, "you can get a couple of roses from your garden or that old spare tire in your garage and through molecular manipulation create 5 pounds of fresh meat in a couple of hours." This is really a cool idea. It is ethical and useful at the same time, we get to eat our delicious beef but not having to slaughter cows! Although nanotechnology does bring about much worries on other ethical aspects, but I guess in this perspective, nanotechnology is ethical?

This website includes a video of an interview with a practical ethicist and Professor from Oxford University. I think his pro-designer babies view is relevant to what we discussed in class today. I feel strongly about giving the best possible things to my future child. As according to Professor Savulescu, if "Using IVF would give children the greatest choices and opportunities in life," would it be ethical to proceed with such technologies.. No?

I'm pretty disturbed that there is now a genetic formula to "make" healthy humans. Though it sounds pretty cool that future human beings can be 'perfectly healthy', but at the same time, it is pretty weird to imagine a world without illnesses. Could this lead to a commodification of human beings? If it is only available to the wealthy or the elite groups,is it an ethical technology?

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1030_3-6095736.html

Again the issue here is whether the uploader or the service provider should be held liable for copyright infringement. Is it ethical to put all blame onto Youtube?
How useful is DMCA in deterring copyright infringement?