Disagreeing Well about Technology

Daniel C. Russell

doi:10.4324/9781003189466-12

Disagreeing Well about Technology

Daniel C. Russell

Philosophy

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Regulation exists for good reason, because the interests of technology firms are not always aligned with ours. However, it still can be extremely difficult to predict when a particular regulation would be good for the public. In 1962, the US Congress required testing to determine that new drugs would be effective at treating whatever they purported to treat, to keep patients from wasting money and—much worse—precious time when they might have avoided needless suffering or even death by using a treatment that was more effective. Rosling has a point: technology is about more than gadgetry. It changes the frontier of possibilities for what the peoples might do with our lives and who peoples might become.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Technology Ethics
Subtitle of host publication	A Philosophical Introduction and Readings
Publisher	Taylor and Francis
Pages	73-82
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9781000830224
ISBN (Print)	9781032038711
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003189466-12
State	Published - Jan 1 2023

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