The future is questionable.

A serious look at the moral problems of technology — read through the science fiction that has been rehearsing them since Frankenstein. Read, decide, argue, and watch your own ethics take shape.

12 modules · 22 frameworks · 12 chapters · free to begin

Four moves, one habit of mind

You read a problem, you make a call you can't take back, you argue it with people who disagree — and the system quietly learns how you think.

  1. 1

    Read

    Twelve chapters on the ethics of technology — grounded in the fiction that has rehearsed these problems since Frankenstein.

    Open the textbook
  2. 2

    Decide

    Branching dilemmas where you can't dodge the choice. Every path carries consequences the story holds you to.

    Face a dilemma
  3. 3

    Argue

    Take a position and defend it against other readers. Watch your instincts collide with the genuinely hard cases.

    Enter the dialogues
  4. 4

    Profile

    Your choices across 12 modules resolve into one ethics profile — mapped onto 22 philosophical frameworks.

    Build your profile

Every choice is a data point

There are no right answers here — only a clearer picture of the ethics you already practice. Each decision is read against twenty-two philosophical traditions, then resolved into a profile that's unmistakably yours.

Build your ethics profile
  • Utilitarianism
  • Deontology
  • Virtue Ethics
  • Ethics of Care
  • Social Contract
  • Capabilities Approach
  • Ubuntu Ethics
  • Existentialist Ethics
  • Rights-Based Ethics
  • Natural Law
  • Contractualism
  • Justice Ethics
  • + 10 more

Standing on the shoulders of the writers who saw it coming

Mary ShelleyUrsula K. Le GuinWilliam GibsonPhilip K. DickOctavia E. ButlerIsaac AsimovTed Chiang

The future is already here. Decide what you'll do about it.

Start with a single dilemma, or take the full assessment and build your ethics profile. Free to begin — no account needed to read.