Point we will be electing a new president in just over a week. This has been one of the strangest campaigns in history certainly that i can remember and not only are the two candidates among the least liked candidates in history, theyre also pola every conceivable way. I dont want to get into the particulars yet, id first like to introduce you to our panelists, many of whom you will recognize. First were privileged to have bob rush, a former iowa state senator and an attorney with bob thank you. Craig our second panelist is frank durham, an associate professor of journalism and Mass Communication at the university of iowa. Thank you for coming back again. Frank its a pleasure. Craig finally our third panelist is david bullwinkle, a professor of philosophy at Kirkwood Community college. David, thank you for coming on the show. David good morning. Craig thanks for all of you for being here. To the viewers i want to first acknowledge and also apologize to each of you for the way ill refer
For having me. Craig we also have suresh raghavan, a professor of Biomedical Engineering at the university of iowa. Suresh, i thank you so much for being with us today. Suresh a pleasure, craig. Craig thank you. Today people of my generation, i wont include you guys in this, but people of my generation encountered only in science we see regularly today in the news. Artificial intelligence, mechanical organs, bionic limbs, these things happen on a daily basis. They are being improved and becoming much more sophisticated as we speak. A few years ago, i had the opportunity to read an excellent book entitled radical evolution. Originally published in 2005, 2020, that the combination of genetic robotic information and nanotechnolo gies would soon combine to change the very nature of who we are. A particular point that stood out to me in that book is the fact that it is much easier for us to introduce rapid changes in technology than it is for humans to adapt to those changes, our values, an
Followup show to bionic engineering of humans, what it means to be human. Id like to welcome back to the show today tom javoroski, who teaches philosophy at coe college. Tom, thank you for coming back. Tom j. thank you. Craig v. id also like to welcome suresh raghavan, who is a professor of Biomedical Engineering at the university of iowa. Suresh, thanks for coming back. Suresh r. thanks for having me. Craig v. as we discussed on our first show, advances in medical technology, artificial intelligence, mechanical organs, and bionic limbs are stretching our idea of what it means to be Biomedical Engineering, youre on the cutting edge of whats available out there. Could you talk to us a little bit about what constitutes a bionic device and maybe give us some examples of what is and isnt that . Suresh r. because bionics is not a scientific term but rather a popular term, theres opinions about what constitutes bionic device, probably depending on how broad and how narrow one wants to be. Ty
Solutions focus on globalization and job creation. Trump wants to cut taxes on the ruling class to stimulate job creation, and clinton proposes an increase in government sponsored work. They both oppose the Trans Pacific trade pact being pushed by obama. Neither of them, though, nor their fellow politicians down the ballot, pay much attention to what actually may be more important in the changing job scene, and that is automation. Think about it. A hundred years or so ago, nr less than two percent do. Why . The mechanization of farming. The same thing has been happening in every sector of the economy. Law offices used to employ dozens of scribes to type each individual document. Now, one person, using a computer, can do the work that used to require many. Robots are ubiquitous in factories, often replacing the majority of workers; telephone operators are vague memories, changed if not eliminated by automation, the speed of this change has accelerated to the point where some pundits are
Panelist is micah hawkerboehnke who is a senior at Cornell College here in cedar rapids. Micah thank you for being with us. Micah thank you for having me. Craig our third panelist is dr. Carin crain the dean of students at the university of iowa law school. Carin thank you for joining us. Carin thank you for inviting me. Craig i mentioned that our conversation today will be about cheating in higher education. The impetus for this show came from a class i taught last year, unfortunately an ethics class, in which three of the students that i had failed because of plagiarism. I also suspected several other students of buying papers to turn in as their own work, i couldnt prove that so they passed the class. But i had never before seen in such cheating that goes on in our education. Lesley id like to start with you, i understand your dissertation was about student cheating in higher education. Leslie yes. Craig can you give us a brief summary of that . Leslie sure. My dissertation, basical