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Not So Fast: Thinking Twice About Technology By Doug Hill, University of Georgia Press, 2016. 221 pp. Doug Hill is a journalist and independent scholar who has studied the history and philosophy...

https://ethix.org/2018/02/28/new-not-so-fast

Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future By Martin Ford, New York: Basic Books, 2015. 334 pp. Martin Ford is a 25-year veteran computer design and software developer bas...

https://ethix.org/2018/02/28/new-rise-of-robots

  #MeToo has been a powerful and courageous statement by victims of sexually harassing males. “What’s Next?” is now the question. It’s not as though no attention has been paid to sexual ...

https://ethix.org/2018/02/28/times-up-whats-next

This time it looks real. One of the few advantages of being older is having a perspective on the advances in technology. I was a student in the 1960s when the first promises of artificial intelli...

https://ethix.org/2018/02/28/artificial-intelligence

Under his leadership, the Human Genome Project mapped and sequenced the full human genome. This monumental advance in scientific knowledge has begun to unlock some of the great mysteries of human...

https://ethix.org/2018/02/28/francis-s-collins-md-phd

Dear Ethix Colleagues, It has been almost two years (February 28, 2018) since I have been able to update the ethix.org website, and for that I apologize. My goal is to conduct a couple more int...

https://ethix.org/2018/02/28/whats-next-2

  The post Video: Al Erisman on Issue 85 appeared first on ethix .

https://ethix.org/2015/04/30/video-al-erisman-on-issue-85

Randy Wilcox started in sales and became president of two different divisions of Otis Elevator: South Asia, then the Americas. Ethics and globalization were a challenge for the company in the 19t...

https://ethix.org/2015/04/30/randy-wilcox-ethics-and-manufacturing

It is not difficult to find the many ways technology extends our reach. The early defining vision for Bill Gates at Microsoft went under the banner: Information at Our Fingertips. This was the ti...

https://ethix.org/2015/04/30/new-can-technology-also-make-us-stupid

(USA Today, April 5, 2015) In a mayoral race in Chicago, an issue that is gnawing at Chicagoans is over red-light cameras. The angst in Chicago, where a red-light camera violation will set you ba...

https://ethix.org/2015/04/30/traffic-cameras-create-political-furor