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product is released. Every programmer in the company is working 10 hours a day, 7 days
a week.
Divide the class into four groups: three groups of recruiters and one group of
students about to graduate from college. Each group of recruiters, representing one
of the three companies, should make a “pitch” that highlights the reasons why their
company represents the best opportunity. The graduates should raise possible negative
aspects of working for each company.
30. Debate the following proposition: “It is immoral for a corporation to pay its chief
executive officer (CEO) 400 times as much as a production worker.”

Further Reading and Viewing

Nick Bilton. “The Robot World Is Emerging at Amazon.” New York Times , March 26, 2012.
Jason Borenstein. “Work Life in the Robotic Age.” Communications of the ACM , July 2010.
Philip K. Dick. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Del Ray, New York, NY, 1996. (Origi-
nally published in 1968)
Alan Joch. “Debating Net Neutrality.” Communications of the ACM , October 2009.
Kevin Kelly. “Better Than Human: Why Robots Will—and Must—Take Our Jobs.” Wired ,
December 24, 2012. www.wired.com.
Yul Kwon. “Made in the USA.” America Revisited , May 2, 2012. 53:10. video.pbs.org.
Steven Levy. “The AI Revolution Is On.” Wired , January 2010.
“Morals and the Machine” and “March of the Robots.” Economist , June 2, 2012.
“Not Always with Us.” Economist , June 1, 2013.
A. Pawlowski. “Why Is America the 'No-Vacation Nation'?” CNN, May 23, 2011. www.cnn
.com.
Daniel Suarez. “The Kill Decision Shouldn't Belong to a Robot.” TED Talk, June 2013. 13:20.
www.ted.com/talks/.
Sebastian Thrun. “Google's Driverless Car.” TED Talk, March 2011. 4:14. www.ted.com/
talks/.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Player Piano . Dell, New York, NY, 1988. (Originally published in 1952.)

References

[1] Jeffrey Kosseff. “US Calls, India Answers.” Sunday Oregonian (Portland, Oregon),

October 5, 2003.

[2] Vikas Balaj. “A New Capital of Call Centers.” New York Times , November 25, 2011.

[3] Isaac Asimov. “Runaround.” Amazing Science Fiction , March 1942.

[4] Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Player Piano . Delacourte Press, New York, NY, 1952.

[5] “The Misery of Manufacturing.” Economist , pp. 61-62, September 27, 2003.

[6] Todd Lassa. “Toyota, Chrysler Have North America's Most Efficient Plants.” Motor

Trend (blog), July 5, 2008. blogs.motortrend.com.

[7] Stanley Aronowitz, Dawn Esposito, William DiFazio, and Margaret Yard. “The Post-

Work Manifesto.” In Post-Work: The Wages of Cybernation , pp. 31-80. Edited by Stan-
ley Aronowitz and Jonathan Cutler. Routledge, New York, NY, 1998.