Assignment #2: Privacy Please

The three situations I chose to both argue for & against are:

1. Our medical records should be all digitally stored online for all medical professionals to access within the hospital when needed.

4. Schools in 2020 should be closed and teachers and students should begin learning in virtual classrooms using digital technology at home.

5. Digital textbooks should replace entirely paper textbooks by 2020 in New Brunswick.

ARGUING AGAINST

     Argument Number 1: This could be a major issue, considering pretty much everybody is always online now. You never truly know who could have access to your personal medical records. What would happen if someone was to gain access to those and use them incorrectly, obtaining all your personal info of your allergies/disabilities, etc., that maybe you didn't want anyone to know? They could do anything they wanted to do with it, which is terrifying.

     Argument Number 2: I think this may be going too far, and here's why. First of all, students are going to go crazy - how are we supposed to socialize? Talk with friends? Parter up and learn how to work as team? Learn about teamwork and how to settle on/come to one idea among a team? I think if this does happen, we'll look like the people on Wall-E.
   
     Argument Number 3: What if somebody hacks the online textbook, changing the words? If everybody went by this form on education, I don't really know how I'd feel about it. What about the older textbooks that have been around for years and years? It's somebody's hard work, thrown away, replaced by technology. Let's talk about all the ancient documents from thousands of years ago for a second - imagine those artefacts just thrown out and transferred to some digital thing instead. I don't know about you, but I'd rather have a physical in-hand copy of something - to know it's legit.

ARGUING FOR

     Argument Number 1: This may possibly be very innovative. Doctors/nurses/surgeons/scientists/dentists etc., could put this to extremely good use. There are many positive possibilities for this. They'd be able to transfer or send certain documents to one another, on a certain patient. It would be easy to share things with each other on patients for sure. But, I would look out for a couple of things... For instance, they should make sure they have absolute permission from the patient that they will be sending these medical documents to another person. Another thing, they should assure their patients & make sure that these documents won't "get out" into the open. It all should be a private thing, and be protected, unless the patient says otherwise.

    

    Argument Number 2: Since the old times, we've worked in-class. I think maybe change would be good this time, today's society is growing and learning and building off of digital things now. I think this would be very good - in most ways.

    

    Argument Number 3:This may not be that bad. I think this also might be positive, in some way, on our society. The world is a whole lot different now. It is also always changing, becoming more "connected" too. Besides, the worse excuse any body could ever use is: "We've always done it this way." That doesn't mean a thing. Things are different now, and this possibly could be an amazing breakthrough, if it does become the reality. Maybe it could even assure the safety of important things and ancient files... who knows.