Professional Ethics

Three Unhelpful Views about Technology 1. Technology is a good thing. It liberates human beings and brings about prosperity (utopia). 2. Technology is a bad thing. It is an autonomous force that threatens individuality, freedom, and the environment. 3. Technology s nt as important as the first two groups think. History has shown that people can and have adapted to changes in technology. All three of these views are oversimplifications that fail to grasp how technology causes social change and how it affects the future. Some Countervailing Considerations: 1. Informational technology has not been the boon it was supposed to be in education. 2. The range of possibility and human choice implicit in technology seems to go against pessimism about the effects of technology on human freedom. 3. Technology, the organization of knowledge for practical purposes, is a genuine matter of concern, since (with its pervasive influence) it has ma