Name: Matthew Jones

As Jonas mentioned in his paper, “TECHNOLOGY AND RESPONSIBILITY: REFLECTIONS ON THE NEW TASKS OF ETHICS”, for most of human history, people were clearly able to see the outcomes of actions. Good and evil was not a grey area, good and evil were easy to perceive, as the immediate outcomes of someone’s actions. Humans knew, that if someone had a spear in their hand, they were either going to bring home fish for dinner, or kill someone. The outcomes were simple, easy to read, and overall predictable. As our spears turned into drones that could be flown remotely from across the world, predictability really went out the window as advancement and evolution in technology took its place. Men and woman have always had a nature to do good and evil, and In the current day and age, our technology has so advanced, that though there is much more opportunity now to do incredible amounts of good, so has the opportunity to do evil grown in conjuncture. In the cyber and technology world, we cannot be naïve. We cannot hope for the best or assume humans are going to make the right decision. There must be regulations and procedures put in place, that as technology continues to advance, we will not be playing catchup in order to be keep things secure and people safe. Rather, we will implement our procedures as new advancements come. We cannot wait for the next advancement to improve our infrastructure or policy. Knowing that technology is going to foster crime, as we have seen in the past, we must proactively create procedures to counteract the evil that will undoubtedly be done. Yes, technology is more advanced, and its implications and uses are more unpredictable than ever before, but humans aren’t. They will still be stuck in the lifelong fight between good and evil in their own lives. Therefore, we must write the code, develop preemptive and recover policies, and build the needed infrastructure, so that we can keep up with the advancing of technology, and not force it to slow down or even worse, be left behind.