Don Gotterbarn: Making A Difference 2002 Ken Himma, Computers & Society editor Seattle Pacific University himma@spu.edu [Q1]: Looking back, what was it that first sparked your interest in computer/information ethics? [A]: In the mid 70's I left teaching philosophy and went into computer consulting with no academic training in computing. I was amazed at the kinds of critical projects I worked on. I, like my colleagues in the industry, loved the challenging problems. Each successful project (defined as somehow getting a computer to do something that resembled what the customer wanted) was viewed as a personal success. I was getting concerned by the number of projects developed (by me and by others) without any prior concern for the impact of the product or of the quality of the work. It was clear to me that some attention to potential impacts would change the way systems were developed and change their impact. Joseph Weizenbaum's (1976), "Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation" gave clear expression to my concerns. As a philosopher, I had talked about values but had not realized that the products we develop and the way we develop them embody values. At that time, philosophers
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Don Gotterbarn: making a difference 2002
Himma, Ken
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Association for Computing Machinery – Sep 1, 2009
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