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Society, Ethics, and Technology

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This is such a timely and needed publication. The book offers insightful chapters by authors who are scholars within this area of study. Other chapters offer insight into today's world of technology and science. Remaining chapters provide insightful perspectives by authors that incorporate the ethical issues involved in both technology and science. The authors and publisher, I believe, are TOTALLY on the right track with their belief that this is a very crucial publication for today's society. The first chapter by Morton Winston, "Children of Invention," tells the reader what is going on currently in our society within the area of ethics, technology, and science; where we were, where we are now, and why we need to look at this for our future. This publication is ground breaking. With our society's current stance of available access to technology and developments in science our ethical decision-making related to these disciplines ARE our future; the authors of this book have provided us with excellent topics and issues to "Begin the Discussion."

I picked this book out at the library based on my interest in the ethics of environmentalism. Where do you draw the line between life fulfillment and "leaving no trace"?

This book delves into that question and many more:

How have inventions from the middle ages to the present dramatically changed how people live and perhaps how they should live?

How much and what kind of oversight should there be on creators?

What if technology can make people perfectly happy? Is that good, even if it's living in a Matrix-like meta-world?

What are the implications and ethics of transforming humanity genetically? Mechanically? Computationally?

What does globalization mean to group ethics which have historically been developed on a much smaller scale?

How can we avoid the tragedy of the commons where it is to the individual's interest to exploit the common resource to the detriment of society at large?

Increased surveillance has benefits to security, but detriments to privacy. Where do we draw the line?

Overall, a great book if you're interested in a survey on technology and how it affects society and raises challenging ethical questions.

One issue is that the Book Companion Website on the back cover does not seem to exist.

This Book is very interesting. It talks about the start of technology and the benefits of major things we use. This book is not difficult to read and is enjoyable.

Product discribed as is. Item received 3 weeks after the original date purchased. Takes more than 2 weeks to received an order. Vendor is good.

Everything as far as the quality of the book is true...however I cannot resell it to anyone anymore so here I am stuck with it and cannot recuperate my costs when I try to sell it again....oh well...

In my opinion, the book is long (2 columns per page and small font), some things are repeated or over-explained and definitely not in lamens terms. I was so bored reading this book that my stomach begin to twist in knots. I also believe the author was very anxious to show off their vocabulary. It may be a little more interesting if it was a little more down to earth instead of using sentences such as "As in all such masculine invocations of original perfection, Eve has vanished." Every once and a while, I got interested in some of the topics. Other than that, if it werent for a class that I needed this for, I would not have bought this.