cyberlaw in general, education, medicine, the arts, commerce, and of central concern to SIGCAS, ethics and professionalism. I could go on but suffice it to say that problems proliferate and the pages of the Newsletter have always been a place of reason, informed discussion, as well as confi'ontation. I am pleased to have been a part of yesterday and [ wish all the best to the editors of tomorrow. For today, the challenge remains for all computer professionals to take principled decisions when confronted with difficult ethical choices arising from the technology with which we have become so involved. We remain both teachers and students, as there is no rest, no respite from a technology so fidl of promise and so rife with dangers. I conclude with a quotation from one of my favourite authors [Pirsig, 1974] and I recall his reconciliation of human artifacts with the natural world, with considerable optimism. "... But not because I am out of sympathy with their feelings about technology. I just think that their flight from and hatred of technology is self-defeating. The Bud&h, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of
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A plea for amateurs
Huff, Chuck
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, Volume 29 (3)
Association for Computing Machinery – Sep 1, 1999
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