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The computer revolution and the problem of global ethics
Authors:Professor Krystyna Gorniak-Kocikowska
Institution:(1) Southern Connecticut State University, 501 Crescent Street, 06515-1355 New Haven, CT, USA
Abstract:The author agrees with James Moor that computer technology, because it is ‘logically malleable’, is bringing about a genuine social revolution. Moor compares the computer revolution to the ‘industrial revolution’ of the late 18th and the 19th centuries; but it is argued here that a better comparison is with the ‘printing press revolution’ that occurred two centuries before that. Just as the major ethical theories of Bentham and Kant were developed in response to the printing press revolution, so a new ethical theory is likely to emerge from computer ethics in response to the computer revolution. The newly emerging field of information ethics, therefore, is much more important than even its founders and advocates believe.
Keywords:computer ethics  computer revolution  global ethics  industrial revolution  printing revolution  professional ethics
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