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This 5 page paper takes a broad look at computer ethics, looking at what is meant by the term computer ethics, how the subject has evolved and the broad range of issues this covers in terms of the way information technology, computing and communication technology is used. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
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issue of computer ethics can be seen to become increasingly important. The way computer can and should be used is still an issue of controversy and the development of
computer ethics as a subsection of ethics reflects this. The phrase computer ethics is open to both a broad and a narrow interpretation. In the narrow perspective there may be
the attempt to apply ethical frameworks or models, such as utilitarianism to Kantianism to the use of computer technology. The wider view of computer ethics can include elements such as
professional standards, public policy and the law and even spread outwards to areas such as sociology and corporate ethics. If we look to the development of computer ethics as
a subject then we need to look to the 1940 and the work Norbert Wiener who was a professor at MIT and developed an anti-aircraft cannon that was able to
shoot down warplanes that moved quickly. This saw the development of cybernetics, and this led Wiener and his counterparts to realise some pertinent and forward looking facts. He stated;
"It has long been clear to me that the modern ultra-rapid computing machine was in principle an ideal central nervous system to an apparatus for automatic control; and that its
input and output need not be in the form of numbers or diagrams. ...... Long before Nagasaki and the public awareness of the atomic bomb, it had occurred to me
that we were here in the presence of another social potentiality of unheard-of importance for good and for evil." (Wiener, 1948; 27-28). The term computer ethics was
not yet being used, but the essence of the subject was being considered with a recognition of the level of impact that this could have on human life already perceived
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