Questions and Answers
What term describes changes to our behaviour, responsibilities, values, etc. as mentioned in the text?
Soft impacts
Who proposed 'The Collingridge Dilemma'?
David Collingridge
What is the main focus of the Precautionary Principle?
Safety and risk
What does the Received View about Technological Impacts categorize as 'hard impacts'?
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What does the Collingridge Dilemma suggest about the foreseeability of change?
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Study Notes
Ethics and Technological Impacts: The Collingridge Dilemma
- Meta-ethical concepts in professional ethics: skepticism, realism, relativism, antirealism
- Ethical theories: normative, applied, deontology, utilitarianism, precautionary principle, virtues, sustainability
- Conditions for responsibility in human technology interactions
- "The Collingridge Dilemma" by David Collingridge: "When change is easy, the need for it cannot be foreseen; when the need for change is apparent, change has become expensive, difficult and time consuming."
- Received view about technological impacts: soft impacts (changes to behavior, responsibilities, values) and hard impacts (changes to health, environment, economy)
- Reference to the work "Ethics from Within: Google Glass, the Collingridge Dilemma, and the Mediated Value of Privacy" by Kudina and Verbeek
- The Collingridge Dilemma presents a challenge in successfully regulating technology
- Collingridge's book "The Social Control of Technology" (1980) is a key reference
- Soft impacts include changes to behavior, responsibilities, and values
- Hard impacts include changes to health, environment, and economy
- The Collingridge Dilemma highlights the difficulty in foreseeing the need for change in technology
- The dilemma emphasizes the challenges in regulating technology when the need for change becomes apparent
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