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While waiting for an appointment with his physician, John Smith sees a brochure advertising a new surgical procedure in which a tiny microprocessor is implanted inside one's skull just behind the left ear

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While waiting for an appointment with his physician, John Smith sees a brochure advertising a new surgical procedure in which a tiny microprocessor is implanted inside one's skull just behind the left ear. The purpose of the chip is to help you associate names with faces. The procedure for inserting the chip is so simple that his physician is performing it in her office. Because John is a sales representative, he rationalizes that such a device could help him to earn higher sales commissions so he has his physician implant the chip. One month later, he develops tinnitus (a constant ringing) in both ears that will not go away. Assuming that the tinnitus is the sole result of the implanted chip, and no other pre-existing medical condition, determine: 1) the physician's accountability and liability, and 2) the chip maker's accountability and liability in terms of Deborah Johnson's senses of responsibility QUESTION 2: (30 points) Discuss, providing three different examples, how codes of ethics can help minimize the existence of bugs (errors) in safety critical software applications that can have disastrous effects as evidenced in the Therac-25 incidents in which some people were killed and others severely injured. QUESTION 3. (40 points) Jack manages of a team of nine software engineers. Due to corporate restructuring, he must lay off one member of his team. He can easily identify the two least-productive team members but he is not sure which one he should lay off. Jack's team members are unaware that the company tracks all Internet activities traffic at each employee's orkstation. He has never shared this information with them. As an administrator, he has full access to their Internet usage data. Jack uses these records to compute how much time these two employees spend surfing the Web each week; the one who has the most non-business-related Internet activity will be released. Analyze Jack's action from each of the four theoretical constructs -- Act Utilitarianism, Rule Utilitarianism, Kantianism, and Social Contract Theory -- to determine its rightness or wrongness. BONUS QUESTION: (4 points) Compare and contrast Ray Kurzweil's vision of computing and information technology in the future as detailed in “The Six Epochs," Chapter 1 of his book, The Singularity is Near, to E.M. Forster's vision as detailed in his short story, "The Machine Stops."