The Ethics of Invention: Technology and the Human Future

by Sheila Jasanoff

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Sheila Jasanoff charts society's embrace of technological solutions and technology's complex interplay with ethics and human rights. She dissects the ways in which we delegate power to technological systems and asks how we might regain control. From GMOs to gene therapy, biomedicine has challenged traditional definitions of life and death and raised difficult questions, such as who owns our genetic information. The Internet has redefined privacy with social media and search giants operating as new, all-powerful "data oligarchs", while cyber warfare has weakened the boundaries of the nation-state. Jasanoff shows that, far from being an amoral or apolitical force,...Read more
  • ISBN10 039307899X
  • ISBN13 9780393078992
  • Publish Date 30 September 2016 (first published 30 August 2016)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint WW Norton & Co
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 320
  • Language English
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