Explain how a computing innovation can have an impact beyond its intended purpose.
IOC-1.B.1 Computing innovations can be used in ways that their creators had not originally intended:
- The World Wide Web was originally intended only for rapid and easy exchange of information within the scientific community.
- Targeted advertising is used to help businesses, but it can be misused at both individual and aggregate levels.
- Machine learning and data mining have enabled innovation in medicine, business, and science, but information discovered in this way has also been used to discriminate against groups of individuals.
IOC-1.B.2 Some of the ways computing innovations can be used may have a harmful impact on society, the economy, or culture.
IOC-1.B.3 Responsible programmers try to consider the unintended ways their computing innovations can be used and the potential beneficial and harmful effects of these new uses.
IOC-1.B.4 It is not possible for a programmer to consider all the ways a computing innovation can be used.
IOC-1.B.5 Computing innovations have often had unintended beneficial effects by leading to advances in other fields.
IOC-1.B.6 Rapid sharing of a program or running a program with a large number of users can result in significant impacts beyond the intended purpose or control of the programmer.