The Ethical Technologist: Introduction to Technology Ethics (Module 0)

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The Ethical Technologist explores what it is to be a change agent during this most dynamic period of human history. Hundreds, even thousands of years in the future, it is likely that the technological advances of the 20th and 21st Centuries will be recognised in history as a pivotal point in the cultural evolution of humanity, the point at which the exponential growth of technology began.
Technologists working in the 21st Century have the power to do what humans have never been able to do. As a technologist, while you have this power, it is important that you feel responsible for the consequences of using the technology that you create. You have an obligation to current and future generations to think about those consequences.
As grandiose as it may sound, technologists working today are creating the future of humanity. We need full awareness of the impact of what we are doing if we are going to create the best future we can.
While technology is merely a tool, this text makes the case that the best kind of technology is that which helps people come to a fuller expression of their human potential. In humanistic terms, technology should help a person to become ‘self-actualized’ or the best version of themselves.
On the other hand, military technology aside, the least defensible kind of technology is that which dehumanises people through negligent design and execution, or by intentionally reducing the user to a mere cog in an impersonal machine, an interchangeable and ultimately disposable unit of production. This is the kind of technology that forces people to adapt to it, rather than it adapting to the needs of people. There is still too much of this kind of technology in the world. We call it ‘user-unfriendly’ or a whole slew of less polite names.

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