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Society, ethics, and technology / Morton E. Winston, Ralph D. Edelbach.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Australia : Wadsworth, [2014]Edition: Fifth edition, International editionDescription: xv, 459 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781133943587 (pbk.) :
  • 9781133943587 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.483 WIN
LOC classification:
  • T14.5
Contents:
Part one.Perspectives on technology -- 1.1.Historical perspectives -- James Burke: Something for nothing -- Ruth Schwartz Cowan: Industrial society and technological systems -- Rosalind Williams: History as technological change -- 1.2.Social/political perspectives -- Ricahrd Sclove: I\'d hammer out freedome: technology as politics and culture -- Andrew Feenberg: Democratic rationalization -- Sheila Jasanoff: Technologies of humility: citizen participation in governing science -- Judy Wajcman: Addressing technological change: the challenge to social theory -- 1.3.Ethical perspectives: Hans Jonas: Technology and responsibility: reflections on the new task of ethcis -- Michael Davis: Constructing the professional responsibility of engineers -- David Strong: Technological subversion -- Deborah G. Johnson and Thomas M. Powers -- Part two.Contemporary technology and the future -- 2.1 Security and surveillance -- Max Boot: The consequences -- Noel Sharkey: The automation and proliferation of military drones and the protection of civilians -- Jay Stanley and Barry Steinhardt: Bigger monster, weaker chains -- 2.2Artificial intelligence and robotics -- Abigail Tucker: Birth of a robot -- Fiorella Operton: ethics in advanced robotics -- Stephen Baker: Final jeopardy -- 2.3 Nanotechnology -- Ray Kurzweil: Neuroscience, nanotecnology, and ethics: promise and peril -- Lynn L. Bergeson: Emerging nanomaterial governance systems: the state of play -- Armin Grunwald: Nanotechnology - a new field of ethical inquiry? -- 2.4.Internet and social media -- Nicholas Carr: Is Google making us stupid? -- Rebecca Mackinnion: Corporate censorship -- Andrew J. Flanigan, Craig Flanigan, and Jon Flanigan: Technical code and the social construction of the internet -- 2.5 Biotechnology -- Francis Fukuyama : Our posthuman future -- Leon R. Kass: Preventing a brave new world -- Michael J, Sandel: The case against perfection -- 2.6Energy and the environment -- Robert W. Kates: The nexus and the neem tree -- Donald Aitken: Global warming -- David Fridley: Nine challenges of alternative energy -- Lester Brown: Stabilizing climate: an energy efficiency revolution.
Summary: Now with technology and ethics in the news and information on engineering ethics, this book stresses the latest technological innovations and how these advancements represent new ethical challenges and dilemmas for society as a whole.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 303.483 WIN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 216255

Previous edition: 2012.

Text on inside covers.

Includes bibliographical references.

Part one.Perspectives on technology -- 1.1.Historical perspectives -- James Burke: Something for nothing -- Ruth Schwartz Cowan: Industrial society and technological systems -- Rosalind Williams: History as technological change -- 1.2.Social/political perspectives -- Ricahrd Sclove: I\'d hammer out freedome: technology as politics and culture -- Andrew Feenberg: Democratic rationalization -- Sheila Jasanoff: Technologies of humility: citizen participation in governing science -- Judy Wajcman: Addressing technological change: the challenge to social theory -- 1.3.Ethical perspectives: Hans Jonas: Technology and responsibility: reflections on the new task of ethcis -- Michael Davis: Constructing the professional responsibility of engineers -- David Strong: Technological subversion -- Deborah G. Johnson and Thomas M. Powers -- Part two.Contemporary technology and the future -- 2.1 Security and surveillance -- Max Boot: The consequences -- Noel Sharkey: The automation and proliferation of military drones and the protection of civilians -- Jay Stanley and Barry Steinhardt: Bigger monster, weaker chains -- 2.2Artificial intelligence and robotics -- Abigail Tucker: Birth of a robot -- Fiorella Operton: ethics in advanced robotics -- Stephen Baker: Final jeopardy -- 2.3 Nanotechnology -- Ray Kurzweil: Neuroscience, nanotecnology, and ethics: promise and peril -- Lynn L. Bergeson: Emerging nanomaterial governance systems: the state of play -- Armin Grunwald: Nanotechnology - a new field of ethical inquiry? -- 2.4.Internet and social media -- Nicholas Carr: Is Google making us stupid? -- Rebecca Mackinnion: Corporate censorship -- Andrew J. Flanigan, Craig Flanigan, and Jon Flanigan: Technical code and the social construction of the internet -- 2.5 Biotechnology -- Francis Fukuyama : Our posthuman future -- Leon R. Kass: Preventing a brave new world -- Michael J, Sandel: The case against perfection -- 2.6Energy and the environment -- Robert W. Kates: The nexus and the neem tree -- Donald Aitken: Global warming -- David Fridley: Nine challenges of alternative energy -- Lester Brown: Stabilizing climate: an energy efficiency revolution.

Now with technology and ethics in the news and information on engineering ethics, this book stresses the latest technological innovations and how these advancements represent new ethical challenges and dilemmas for society as a whole.

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