Digital Ethics Online and Off
Luciano Floridi · American Scientist · 2021
In 1964, the year I was born, Paramount Pictures distributed Robinson Crusoe on Mars.The movie described the adventures of Commander Christopher "Kit" Draper (Paul Mantee), a United States astronaut shipwrecked on Mars.Watching it on YouTube recently reminded me how radically the world has changed in just a few decades.The computer at the very beginning of the movie looks like a Victorian engine, with levers, gears, and dials-a piece of archaeology that Dr. Frankenstein might have used.The only truly prescient element of techno-futurism comes toward the end of the story, when the character Friday (Victor Lundin) is tracked by an alien spacecraft through his bracelets.American Scientist Digital Ethics Online and Off LUCIANO FLORIDI Molding the digital future as it simultaneously shapes us ETHICS TECHNOLOGY 7/8/2021 Digital Ethics Online and Off https://www.americanscientist.org/article/digital-ethics-online-and-off