How should markets, businesses, groups, and individuals be regulated or limited differently in the face of diminishing state power and the intelligification (Verbeek, p217) and networking of the material world?:
Technology actively and primarily plays a role in shaping human behavior; this is more apparent the more time goes on. As well as society becoming more lawless through means of technology, government powers are having a difficult time policing and creating policies that can enforce the law. Ethics need to be built into these policies; they should not only restrict actions, but also attempt to guide the human-technology relationship to safeguard the future of society and the planet.