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http://csciwww.etsu.edu/gotterbarn/artpp1.htm Computer Ethics: Responsibility Regained by Donald Gotterbarn. In an address to the Computers and Quality of Life Conference[1], Gary Chapman, director of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility described his perception of the state of work in computer ethics. He said that, over the years he had attended many meetings where computer ethics and social issues were discussed and that he keeps hearing the same thing. He has noticed no progress in the field. I think he is right. An examination of the current state of computer ethics will reveal some causes for this lack of progress and enable us to see some positive directions to take to make some progress in computer ethics. THE PROBLEM The extensive discussion of computer ethics in the past few years has had little consequence. A look at the content of these discussions reveals a primary source of the problem, viz., an absence of a coherent concept of computer ethics. The types of events that are subsumed under issues in computer ethics are so varied that one does not have a clear concept of computer ethics. Full Article: http://csciwww.etsu.edu/gotterbarn/artpp1.htm


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