Doing Good with Technologies:: Taking Responsibility for the Social Role of Emerging Technologies

by Katinka Waelbers

Book Overview

20th century technologies like cars, the Internet, and the contraceptive pill have altered our actions, changed our perceptions and influenced our moral ideas, for better and worse. Upcoming technologies are bound to fulfill their own unique social roles. How can we advance this social role so that it will support the good live and limit undesired changes? This book explores whether we can take a forward looking responsibility to optimize the social...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9400736681
• ISBN13: 9789400736689
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"