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Doing Good with Technologies Taking Responsibility for the Social Role of Emerging Technologies

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ISBN-10: 9400736681

ISBN-13: 9789400736689

Edition: 2011

Authors: Katinka Waelbers

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Technologies have altered our lives, opinions and attitudes dramatically. Many of these changes are desirable, but in the past people have also suffered many unexpected, undesirable impacts. This text explores how engineers, policy makers and users can take responsibility for the influence of upcoming technologies on our societies. It does so by exploring how technologies do actually interact with our factual beliefs, options and moral ideas, and it provides some vital concepts and questions that support imagining future technological and social change.
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Book details

List price: $119.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Publication date: 8/3/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 152
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.13" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Katinka Waelbers is a researcher at the philosophy department at the Maastricht University. Her research interests range broadly in bio-ethics, philosophy of technology, environmental philosophy, and political philosophy. She studied Science & Policy (BSc and MSc) and Philosophy (Ba and MSc) at the Utrecht University. She participated in multiple research projects in bio-ethics, environmental ethics, and ethics of technology at the Utrecht University (1998-2005). In 2005, she decided to focus on the philosophy of technology and she went to the University of Twente. There, her work focused on responsibility and future technologies such as nano-technology, IT, and the intelligent car of the…