Computers and ethics in the cyberage / D. Micah Hester, Paul J. Ford. - Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c2001. - xiii, 498 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Contents

Section One Technology, Computers, and Values
Chapter One. From Ethics of Technology to ethics of Computers
Chapter Two. Computer Technologies as Value-Laden

Section Two. Computers and the Quality of Life
Chapter Three. Community and Intermediary
Chapter Four. Alienation, Anonymity, and Embodiment
Chapter Five. Computer Development Nation

Section Three. Uses, Abuses, and Social Consequences
Chapter Six . Computer Professionals and the professional use of Computers
Chapter Seven. Freedom, Privacy and in an Information Age
Chapter Eight. Piracy and Ownership
Chapter Nine. Hacking and Viruses

Section Four. Evolution Computer Technologies
Chapter Ten. Artificial Intelligence
Chapter Eleven. Virtual Environments
Chapter Twelve. Networking and Internet





Includes bibliographical references.

0130829781 (paper)

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Computers--Moral and ethical aspects.

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