[LINK] Fwd: UNESCO re ethical implications of emerging technologies

[Roger Clarke]

>From:         Eric Toepfer <toepfer at ZTG.TU-BERLIN.DE>
>Organization: Zentrum Technik und Gesellschaft
>Subject: UNESCO publishes survey on ethical implications of emerging
>To:           SURVEILLANCE at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>
>A recently published UNESCO report on the ethical implications of the
>semantic web, biometrics, radio-frequency identification, location-based
>services, mesh and ubiquitous networking, grid computing and other new
>computing technologies might be of interest for the list.
>
>Regards,
>Eric
>
>http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=24229&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

440KB of PDF at:
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001499/149992E.pdf

My first reaction is 'a horrendously superficial consideration of a 
whole bunch of partly related and partly unrelated technologies', 
tempered by 'but I ought to have a look at it'.

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