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Information ethics, its nature and scope

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Luciano FloridiAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society, Volume 36, Issue 3

Pages 21 - 36

https://doi.org/10.1145/1195716.1195719

Published: 01 September 2006 Publication History

Abstract

"The world of the future will be an ever more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves"---Wiener (1964), p. 69.

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