书目名称 | Ethical and Social Issues in the Information Age | 编辑 | Joseph Migga Kizza | 视频video | | 丛书名称 | Undergraduate Texts in Computer Science | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | Computer technology, barely fifty years old, has enormously transformed human society. The computer revolution, as many have termed it, is quietly but surely affecting every human being on earth in a multitude of ways. Both large and small institutions and indi viduals from all walks of life have come to rely on information, more so today than ever before. Although experiences on the whole have been positive thus far, troubling ethical and social issues are coming to our attention. The security of information we all have come to rely on is no longer guaranteed; individual norms of conduct and ethical behavior are changing. Computer technological development is outpacing the ability of our legal sys tems. Traditional ethical issues like security, privacy, integrity, responsibility, anonymity, property rights, and related social concerns are also greatly affected by our highly tech nological environment. Many ethical questions that used to be answered easily have become more compli cated. Like symptoms of a disease, if these concerns are not diagnosed and treated in a timely fashion, they may become untreatable and eventually wreak havoc on human lives. The book analyzes the effe | 出版日期 | Textbook 19981st edition | 关键词 | Information Technology (IT); Internet; anonymity; artificial intelligence; cyberspace; ethics; privacy; sec | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2950-4 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4757-2950-4 | copyright | Springer-Verlag New York 1998 |
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