Technology has important influences on the working lives of many people!. What are the most important ethical issues raised by the ways technologies affect work!?
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Please give three examples!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Is it ethical to let machines do our work!? Is it ethical to produce a greater source of knowledge!?Www@QuestionHome@Com I could answer like Pad did; those technologies certainly have ethical issues!. But you asked about technology in the work place!. Were there ethical issues surrounding the printing press!? the telephone!? the typewriter!? the telegraph!? microscopes!? telescopes!? ultrasound!? See the point!? There are no ethical issues surrounding technology, except where people want to say that it destroys the livelihood of some, while producing whole industries in the process!. Bring technology on! The more the better!. It only elevates our standard of living, makes work easier, raises wages, creates new industries, etc!. Oh, you say it's moving too fast!? An employee who lost his job to technology gets retrained for something else, then two years later he is laid off again because of new technology!? Well, if that is the way one wishes to look at it, read Ayn Rand's "Anthem" and see what happens when technology is halted!. You won't like "civlization" without technology!. Maybe that is where the real "ethics" is: do we do "with" technology; or do we do "without" technology!? ADDED: The first "technological machine" as far as proving the viability of its mechanics, was the spring-fed clock with its cogs and mathmatically precise engineering!. It was that clock that began the Industrial Revolution!. Was there an ethical problem with the clock in the workplace!?Www@QuestionHome@Com 1!. cloning 2!.atom bomb 3!.abortionWww@QuestionHome@Com Technology is a funny one!. Becuase we collectively accept that the wheel was one of the first inventions!.!.although it was only invented through earler technologies such as cutting stones and hard primative hand tools, it was the first major step toward mass mobility, completely neutral, because it was devised in a time of agriculture rather than warfare and empire!. After tribes began to consolidate into civilisations, the nature of technology shifted into expansionism!. The first combustable machine was the cannon, miniaturized 500 years ago as the pistol!. Of course the bow and the sling preceded the cannon by perhaps 3000 years, and was later upscaled into the trebuchet and the catapult!. The early islamic republic invented a combustable floatation bomb to hit enemy ships, now known today as the torpedo!. So in many ways, technology has streamlined war and made it an industrial complex that a national economy is dependent upon for its own survival!. One thing I might add about the Early Islam,however, is that they have been the most responsible in the past 2000 years for the development of civil planning, social services, the teloscope, cartography, public education, mass literacy, the invention of Algebra and refinement of early vedic maths into what we today call calculus!. They also invented alchemy, taking shamanic mysticism with herbs and refining it into medicinal science!. They re-defined the purpose and function architecture, whereas the West simply emulated the Romans, who took from the Greeks, who took from the Babylonians and Egyptians!. The early Muslims actually were the first outside of China to incorporate true naturalism and architectural function, because of their early philosphy of "God" as the greatest scientist of all!. A muslim in the 11 century also invented the camera obscura, which lead to all fo the subsequent technology in optics, including cinema, animation, astronomy, and so on!. So early Islam had the greatest advancement in technology outside of its use in warfare that we've seen in modern history!. In today's Western climate, however, there are some areas that could do without the fluff of technology as we use it today!. Farming is one of the best examples!. Amish and Menonite peoples produce better crops and more organic foods from their farms!. They also produce the best made furniture and have a reputation as carpenters!. When I've done work estimating cost and labor and materials for building projects, I've never been accurate using estimating forms or software!. I've always kept everything together using my brain, paper, and a 10 key calculator!. But what computers have done in the sedentary office environment has cheapen the labor by making underqualified people do jobs that it once took well seasoned estimators, documentarians, engineers, drafters and accountants!. Inevitably, in my lifetime, I've seen a trend toward lower and lower literacy in the people I work with!.!.who are more adept and pointing and clicking without thinking about what they're doing or why they're doing it!. I've seen the work volume go up for non-thinking work, more downtime due to mistakes, and an overall shift in the company work paradigm from results to politics!.!.!. he who fits in gets the promotions, whether or not he deserves it, and he who does his job well gets booted out of the company!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |