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Why We Need Better Ethics for Emerging Technologies

Why We Need Better Ethics for Emerging Technologies Technological revolutions are dissected into three stages: the introduction stage, the permeation stage, and the power stage. The information revolution is a primary example of this tripartite model. A hypothesis about ethics is proposed, namely, ethical problems increase as technological revolutions progress toward and into the power stage. Genetic technology, nanotechnology, and neurotechnology are good candidates for impending technological revolutions. Two reasons favoring their candidacy as revolutionary are their high degree of malleability and their convergence. Assuming the emerging technologies develop into mutually enabling revolutionary technologies, we will need better ethical responses to cope with them. Some suggestions are offered about how our approach to ethics might be improved. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Ethics and Information Technology Springer Journals

Why We Need Better Ethics for Emerging Technologies

Ethics and Information Technology , Volume 7 (3) – Jan 19, 2006

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2006 by Springer
Subject
Computer Science; Management of Computing and Information Systems; Innovation/Technology Management; Ethics; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Library Science
ISSN
1388-1957
eISSN
1572-8439
DOI
10.1007/s10676-006-0008-0
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Abstract

Technological revolutions are dissected into three stages: the introduction stage, the permeation stage, and the power stage. The information revolution is a primary example of this tripartite model. A hypothesis about ethics is proposed, namely, ethical problems increase as technological revolutions progress toward and into the power stage. Genetic technology, nanotechnology, and neurotechnology are good candidates for impending technological revolutions. Two reasons favoring their candidacy as revolutionary are their high degree of malleability and their convergence. Assuming the emerging technologies develop into mutually enabling revolutionary technologies, we will need better ethical responses to cope with them. Some suggestions are offered about how our approach to ethics might be improved.

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Ethics and Information TechnologySpringer Journals

Published: Jan 19, 2006

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