CEPE'97 A⢠Keynote "Wrap-up" David Preston University of East London CEPE'97 there were five keynote speakers: John Ladd (Brown Univ. USA); angdon Winner (Rensselaer Institute, USA); Deborah Johnson (Renssselaer Institute, USA); James Moor (Dartmouth College, USA); Jeroen van den Hoven (Erasmus Univ. The Netherlands). The order in which I have summarized them below was that of the 'batting order' in Rotterdam. John Ladd advocated that we, in our examination of the computerized world, as moral philosophers become, as in the Socratic tradition, gadflies. This will involve critical ethical scrutiny of accepted conventions, popular superstitions, social prejudices and prevailing mythologies. John went on to discuss the two terms microethics, which is the ethics relating to individual conduct, and macro-ethics, the ethics of social structures. Stressing how exponential performance growth has resulted in both types of ethics changing at an unprecedented rate, John highlighted specifically the norms altered by the production and distribution of information. This relationship between new technology and new ethics was analysed and four observations were made: the consequences of a new technology were largely unpredictable; technology impacts on morality; technology engenders a moral vacuum and an unsubstantiated optimism about a new world. Ladd believes computer people
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CEPE '97 keynote “wrap-up”
Preston, David
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Association for Computing Machinery – Sep 1, 1997
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