Enriquez, Juan, 1959-
Right/wrong : how technology transforms our ethics / Juan Enriquez. - 2020. - vii, 287 pages ; 21 cm
Introduction: Why is ethics suddenly white-hot, front-burner? -- 1. Redesigning humans. The ethics of new sex -- Radically redesigning humans -- Renovating our brains? -- Pathologically sick... and imprisoned -- 2. Exponential technologies: today's ethical quicksand. So...you warmed up the planet just a touch? -- Renewing capitalism's license? -- You used do WHAT to animals?! -- Deliberate extinctions: gene drives -- Technology, truthiness, and the demise of institutions -- 3. Caught on the wrong side of history. Just who is supposed to teach us RIGHT and WRONG? -- More recent ethical quicksand: LGBTQIA -- Endangered and extinct religions -- 4. The immortality of today's mistakes. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Google are electronic tattoos -- And then there are dating sites... -- 5. Why don't we fix it? Baumol's cost disease -- Mass incarceration -- Everything's disposable... -- 6. Dead wrong: we still do it; we will be judged. Papers, borders, and ethics -- War profiteering -- Can being precautionary kill? -- 7. Conclusion? Ethics 2.0, 3.0, 4.0... -- Postscript: Game changers. Universal ethics? China... -- Artificial intelligence -- Pandemics have a way of focusing your ethics, don't they? -- SETI: first contact.
"What if what is permissible and acceptable today is anathema tomorrow? There is a whole canon of scholarly ethics books written with the express purpose of telling you what is RIGHT and what is WRONG. This is not one such book. Juan Enriquez wants to make it easier for us to talk to one another, to prod one another, to understand and guide one another without an everlasting certainty of strict RIGHT v WRONG"-- Provided by publisher.
9780262044424 9780262360029 0262360020
Technology--Moral and ethical aspects.
Technology--Moral and ethical aspects.
BJ59 / .E57 2020
170
Right/wrong : how technology transforms our ethics / Juan Enriquez. - 2020. - vii, 287 pages ; 21 cm
Introduction: Why is ethics suddenly white-hot, front-burner? -- 1. Redesigning humans. The ethics of new sex -- Radically redesigning humans -- Renovating our brains? -- Pathologically sick... and imprisoned -- 2. Exponential technologies: today's ethical quicksand. So...you warmed up the planet just a touch? -- Renewing capitalism's license? -- You used do WHAT to animals?! -- Deliberate extinctions: gene drives -- Technology, truthiness, and the demise of institutions -- 3. Caught on the wrong side of history. Just who is supposed to teach us RIGHT and WRONG? -- More recent ethical quicksand: LGBTQIA -- Endangered and extinct religions -- 4. The immortality of today's mistakes. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Google are electronic tattoos -- And then there are dating sites... -- 5. Why don't we fix it? Baumol's cost disease -- Mass incarceration -- Everything's disposable... -- 6. Dead wrong: we still do it; we will be judged. Papers, borders, and ethics -- War profiteering -- Can being precautionary kill? -- 7. Conclusion? Ethics 2.0, 3.0, 4.0... -- Postscript: Game changers. Universal ethics? China... -- Artificial intelligence -- Pandemics have a way of focusing your ethics, don't they? -- SETI: first contact.
"What if what is permissible and acceptable today is anathema tomorrow? There is a whole canon of scholarly ethics books written with the express purpose of telling you what is RIGHT and what is WRONG. This is not one such book. Juan Enriquez wants to make it easier for us to talk to one another, to prod one another, to understand and guide one another without an everlasting certainty of strict RIGHT v WRONG"-- Provided by publisher.
9780262044424 9780262360029 0262360020
Technology--Moral and ethical aspects.
Technology--Moral and ethical aspects.
BJ59 / .E57 2020
170