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Evaluating New Technologies - Methodological Problems for the Ethical Assessment of Technology Developments. (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009)
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Evaluating New Technologies - Methodological Problems for the Ethical Assessment of Technology Developments. (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009)
Series: The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology, 3
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human practices? How are we to morally evaluate technology
developments that have open horizons, encompass uncertainties, and
lack control? Technology is in- uential on society; technological
innovations act upon the perception of ourselves, the world, and
our relation with fellow humans and other objects. Technology is
changing everything we do by creating new entities (such as
software, nanop- ticles, or Internet), by changing the scale of
activities (e. g. vast amounts of data about people can be stored
and analysed, and not infrequently without people - ing aware of
this), by generating new kinds of knowledge (for instance about i-
nesses, the human genome and so on). Technologies, as a
consequence, impinge upon our morality and for this reason an
ethics of technology should not wait passively until moral problems
arise and not only focus on identi ed and exi- ing moral problems,
but contemplate technology developments and possible - pacts
proactively. However, this is easier said than done, because a
prospective and proactive evaluation of technology developments is
complicated by complexity and uncertainty. The uncertainty of
technology development is closely related to one of the str- ing
features of technology, namely what Jim Moor has coined logical
malleability. (1985, 269) Technological devices are logically
malleable in that they can be shaped to do any activity that can be
characterised in terms of logical operations.
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