Ambient Computing: Are You Making Free Choices?
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TEC334: Your devices aren’t just responding anymore—they’re shaping you. Ambient computing quietly listens, predicts, and nudges—often before you ask.
Dom Bettinelli and Thomas Sanjurjo confront a pressing question: When technology acts for you, are you still choosing?
From smart speakers that “help” to GPS routes that decide for you, they unpack consent without awareness, automation vs. agency, and whether constant nudges build virtue—or outsource it.
Is convenience slowly training us to surrender freedom? They explore the Catholic moral lens on technological inevitability, the spiritual cost of losing silence, and practical steps to reclaim intentionality—without rejecting modern life. If your phone predicts your next move… who’s really in control?
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