Technology and Gadgets

The ethics of technology is a subfield of ethics to address ethical issues specific to the technology age. Some works of the philosopher Hans Jonas are devoted to the ethics of technology. Technology itself is unable to own moral or ethical qualities, since the "technology" is simply tools. Thus, "the ethics of technology" refers instead of two subdivisions.

* The ethics involved in the development of new technologies - whether forever, ever, or the context of good or bad to invent and implement a technological innovation.
* The ethical issues that are exacerbated by the way technology expands or restricts the power of individuals - how standard ethical questions are modified by the new powers.

In the first case, the ethics of things like information security and computer viruses wondered if the very act of innovation is an ethic of good or bad act. Similarly, a scientific fact have a moral obligation to produce or fail to produce a nuclear weapon? What are the ethical issues surrounding the production of technologies that waste or conservation of energy and resources? What are the ethical issues surrounding the production of new manufacturing processes that may hamper employment, or could inflict suffering in the Third World?

In the latter case, the ethics of technology breaks down quickly in the ethics of the various efforts of man as modified by new technologies. For example, bioethics is now widely consumed with questions that have been exacerbated by the new life preservation technologies, new cloning technology, and new technologies for implantation. In law, the right of privacy is always tempered by the emergence of new forms of surveillance and anonymity. The former ethical issues of privacy and freedom of expression are given a new shape and urgency in an era of the Internet. These RFID tracking devices, biometric analysis and identification, genetic screening, to take all the old ethical questions and amplify their import.