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Ethics and the Information Revolution: Terrell Ward Bynum
Book Title:
Readings in Cyberethics
Library Reference: NoneAmazon Link:
http://www.amazon.com/Readings-CyberEthics-Second-Richard-Spinello/dp/0763724106/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239751209&sr=8-1
Quote:
“Computing technology is the most powerful and most flexible technology ever devised. For this reason,computing is changing everything-where and how, where and how we can learn, shop, eat, vote, receive,medical care, spend free time, make war, make friends, make love” Rogerson and Bynum
Learning Expectation:
This book is basically all about computer ethics, but first what is computer ethics? How does itaffect our daily lives? Is it really important? I can find answers for my questions as read this book. But fornow based the title of this reading
Ethics and the Information Revolution
, I expect to learn factsregarding ethics and how this so called study came into people’s lives.
Review:
In the age of Revolution we had a lot of discoveries such as Computer Ethics, a field of study thatwas founded by MIT professor Norbert Wiener early 1940’s. He knew already that social and ethicalissues will arise from this field of study. His idea of those possible issues somehow warns human beingsthat with the use of computers problems can arise anytime especially when it comes to ethical issues. Healso stipulated on his books some comprehensive computer ethics foundation, his book included sometopics like: four principles of justice, methods for doing applied ethics, examples of computer ethics, andother related topics. Although it’s obvious that with the integration of computer technology people have toadopt with it, and I think that people during the time of professor Wiener resisted the fact that thistechnology will help them in daily lives, will help them to make their lives easier and still needs to followsome ethical standards. Ethical standards such that use of this computer technology will not harm otherpeople.While during the middle of 1960’s another significant person examined unethical and illegal usesof computer by computer professionals, he’s none other than Don Parker of SRI International in MenloPark California. He noticed that since the time that people entered the computer center they also left theirethics behind, they don’t apply it with computers. This I believe is wrong, even though there is no lawsimplemented we still need to take note of our moral values. One of his major achievement was to headthe development of the first Code of Professional Conduct for the Association for Computing Machinery,in addition to this he also produced books, articles, and speeches regarding the subject matter.Next remarkable stop for the field of computer ethics is during the late 1960’s, another significantperson came into the picture it was Joseph Weizenbaum a computer scientist at MIT in Boston. Hecreated this so program called
ELIZA
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