PHIL 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Norbert Wiener
6 Dec 2016
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Cybersociety can be described as the transmission of information that connect users worldwide through the use of the internet: cell phones, social media, video chat. Much of the technology that has made the cybersociety possible has been developed only within the past 40 years. Intellectual property and software ownership: copying/sharing a work produced by someone else, copying/sharing software programs, fair use . Computer crimes and cyberattack: hack a computer owned by someone else/send out malicious software. Privacy and government regulation of the internet: attack the computers of another country"s government or military. Generally regarded as the first person to systematically discuss ethical issues raised by computers: norbert wiener. The four steps of norbert wiener"s methodology for resolving ethical issues involving information technology: 1. ) Clarify terms that might be confusing or ambiguous (i. e. , computer, . Apply a received policy cluster to the problem (source of laws or ethical norms that already exist and relate to the problem: 4. )
