Right/wrong : how technology transforms our ethics / Juan Enriquez.
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TextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020]Description: vii, 287 pages ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780262044424; 9780262542814Subject(s): Technology -- Moral and ethical aspectsDDC classification: 170 ENR LOC classification: BJ59 | .E57 2020| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| BOOK | Bangaluru Dr. B.R. Ambedkar School of Economics | 170 ENR (Browse shelf) | Available | 002439 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
"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.
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