Ethical assessments of emerging technologies

摘要: New File. The blank page is scary. Open recent> Notes for Chapter 1. Ctrl+ A, Ctrl+ C. Better to start with this. Now, Ctrl+ V on the blank page. This paragraph is a good start for my book. Ctrl+ X, Ctrl+ V, select paragraph, move up. Uhm, no… Ctrl+ Z. A tag pops up in the bottom right corner of my screen:“This is your rest break. Make sure you stand up and walk away from your computer on a regular basis. Just walk around for a few minutes, stretch and relax.” I can check my Facebook page in my break. Or perhaps I shouldn’t. I should install the software that limits my access to Facebook during working hours. This is killing my productivity! A walk might be better. Oh, wait: Ctrl+ S.These lines portray a typical moment in the experience of my daily life as I wrote this book. Yet 33 years ago, to the average academic, they might have seemed as though they were emerging from the pages of a science fiction story. It was in …