The Integrity of Intelligence

This book examines the effect of Information Technology on our lives, illustrating how a lack of proper social control over IT has led to a scene of technological wizardry and real everyday gains, contaminated by discrimination, deprivation and unacceptable ethical standards. The book states the case, analyses the mistakes, hits hard at those responsible for these, offers ways of ensuring that we all get the benefits of IT, and argues the need to put some integrity into technology.

Inhalt
Acknowledgements - Introduction - PART 1: SETTING THE SCENE - Intelligence, Integrity and New Technologies - Status Report - The Nature and Meaning of Data - The Technological Hare and Social Snail - PART 2: PROBLEMS AND PRINCIPLES - Introduction - Global Development - IT and Big Business - Developers, Designers and Distributors - Disadvantaged Majorities - Insiders and Outsiders - Consumers and IT: a Love/Hate Relationship? - PART 3: TOWARDS AN ETHICAL FRAMEWORK - The Ethics Industries - A Bill of Rights - Bibliography - Index