I recently read “Technology And Responsibility,” by Hans Jonas in 1973. For some reason, I felt Jonas had insight into the future. For instance, Jonas has mentioned a set of ethics that technology must obey. Jonas has mentioned the thesis on the first page: “More specifically, it will be my contention that certain development of our powers the nature of human action has changed, and since ethics is concerned with action, it should follow that the changing nature of human action calls for a change in ethics as well.” (Jonas. P. 1). Jones has mentioned that technology is affecting nature, and its existing and technology effects could reflect the weather, even though Jonas did not know about global warming. Technology is developing, and humans thought the outcome would come up simultaneously and humans thought that effects would show up in a short time. Jonas also mentioned “reshaping techne” which means the singularity in technology. This reminds me of Gene editing, the discussion that we had in this course. Jonas has mentioned that we must think of the outcome. Thus, we must make an adequate framework that considers some ethical aspects or responsible restraint such as human, nature, privacy, etc. Jonas mentioned “Utopian,” which means that technology is moving, and he assumes that it could work for humans and non-humans. In addition, Jonas has mentioned, “One other aspect of the required new ethics of responsibility for and to a distant future is worth mentioning: the insufficiency of representative government to meet the new demands on its normal principles and by its normal mechanics.” (Jonas, P. 51) Agencies that develop technology must hold new ethical considerations, and those ethical considerations must be taken into account.
As you can see, in developing technology, cyber-policy, and infrastructure, we must think thoroughly and take ethical considerations such as nature, humans, privacy, and much more. For instance, technology is not affected by an individual; it is the whole world. Humans must think of the consequences of developing technology. Humans must think thoroughly about all the aspects prior to developing a technology.
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