ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We acknowledge the computer science departments of the University of Kentucky and the University of Illinois Chicago for encouraging us to teach the courses this book grew out of. And we celebrate all departments that support courses on technology ethics.

Thanks to the folks at the MIT Press for encouraging us and being patient when the pandemic slowed everything down. We would especially like to thank Marie Lufkin Lee, the editor who brought us on board; press assistant Alex Hoopes, for helping with story acquisitions; and editor Elizabeth Swayze, who brought us home.

We are grateful to all our authors whose short stories appear in the book. We would particularly like to thank Ken Liu for his enthusiasm, support, and conversations in the early days of this project.

Thanks to Kristel Clayville for being in conversation with the project, especially about responsibility ethics. Thanks to Tracy Weiner for conversation and excellent story recommendations. Thanks to Nedra McNeil and Zoe Brain for feedback, references, and sanity checks on the gender reassignment example in the introduction to chapter 4, and Nedra for one of the reflection questions for chapter 4. Thanks to Patrick Anderson for feedback and specialist assistance on chapter 2.

We gratefully acknowledge NSF grant IIS-1646887 for partial support of Burton, Siler, and Goldsmith in the early stages of writing this book. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Finally, we are grateful to our spouses and support systems that have carried us through book writing during a pandemic. Especially,

• Emanuelle Burton would like to thank her loving and supportive family for managing to remain interested in hearing about this project over many years of phone calls, and Kristel Clayville (additionally, again, always) for patience, faith, refreshment of the spirit, and a steady stream of paradigm shifts.
• Judy Goldsmith would like to thank Andy Klapper for his patience, love, and ability to offer support through many challenges, and her mother for her encouragement, and for not asking, “When is it going to be done? ” And her friends, especially Wendy Frances, Beth Goldstein, Heather Laudan-Clark, Susan Pollack, and Susan Gardiner.
• Nicholas Mattei would like to thank his parents, Theresa and Mike, for their unwavering support over a lifetime, his brother Eric for keeping him focused, and his wife Liz for putting up with all his crap.
• Cory Siler would like to thank Sawyer Schmitt and Paige Campbell for many years of friendship and for the rage-inducing games of Magic: The Gathering that have kept the spark of humanity burning in her heart.
• Sara-Jo Swiatek would like to thank her husband Paul for always encouraging her to trust herself and her canine companions, Bisket and Rudy, who were by her side until their little hearts couldn’t carry them any further.