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Referencing the Learning Resources below, choose a question from the research project list and answer it in relation to an issue in philosophy and technology.

Learning Resources

Replicants and robots: what can the ancient Greeks teach us? | Aeon Essays:

https://aeon.co/essays/replicants-and-robots-what-can-the-ancient-greeks-teach-us

Understanding Heidegger on Technology | The New Atlantis:

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/understanding-heidegger-on-technology

Damon Horowitz: We need a “moral operating system” | TED Talk | TED.com:

https://www.ted.com/talks/damon_horowitz

Holding Algorithms Accountable – Pacific Standard:

https://psmag.com/news/holding-algorithms-accountable

Smartphones Have Created a New Kind of Loneliness | New Republic:

https://newrepublic.com/article/123190/smartphones-have-created-new-kind-loneliness

Questions (the research project list)

1. Whose problem is it?

2. Which people and what institutions might be most seriously harmed by a      technological solution?

3. What new problems might be created because we have solved this problem?

4. What sort of people and institutions might acquire special economic and      political power because of technological change?

5. What changes in language are being enforced by new technologies, and what is      being gained and lost by such changes?

This assignment needs to be a minimum of 200 words.