[LINK] Fwd: UNESCO re ethical implications of emerging technologies
Roger Clarke
Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au
Tue Mar 13 21:08:21 AEDT 2007
>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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