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To address the complexity of today's global challenges requires new
ways of thinking. The idea that technology is always the best,
maybe only, approach worth taking needs to be reconsidered.
Sustainable approaches must also draw from non technological areas.
To that end, this book introduces the idea of just technology by
rephrasing the idea of just war in order to include concepts of
sustainability in future engineering design. The book begins by
defining justice and relating these definitions to technology. This
is followed by illustrating several notions of sustainability and
the awareness that needs to be focused on societal challenges due
to the finite resources available in the natural world. Four
questions are enumerated to be addressed in order to qualify as a
just use of technology: (1) Is the harm being inflicted by the
problem on the community, the environment, or humanity, in general
lasting, serious, and certain? (2) Have all alternative solutions
been investigated first, including non-technology-based solutions?
Technology is the last choice, not the first! (3) Do we have
confidence in the successful implementation of this technological
solution? and (4) Is the potential harm from the technological
solution potentially worse than the issue being addressed? Have all
unintended consequences been considered that could arise from the
technological solution? The book ends with a description for
implementing these questions into the traditional engineering
design process. Examples are included for reflection and help to
understand how the design process proceeds.
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