书目名称 | Evaluating New Technologies | 副标题 | Methodological Probl | 编辑 | Paul Sollie,Marcus Düwell | 视频video | | 概述 | Takes a proactive attitude towards dealing with complex new technology developments.Focus on uncertainty in ethics and technology, which is, contrary to the concept of risk, highly underappreciated in | 丛书名称 | The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | 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 o | 出版日期 | Book 2009 | 关键词 | Ethical Technology Assessment; Ethical Theory; Precaution and precautionary principle; Technology Devel | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2229-5 | isbn_softcover | 978-90-481-8477-4 | isbn_ebook | 978-90-481-2229-5Series ISSN 1875-0044 Series E-ISSN 1875-0036 | issn_series | 1875-0044 | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 |
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