IT viewed through a moral prism

Dave Bailey
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An EU-wide study of emerging technologies led by Leicester's De Montfort University aims to alert policy makers to any potential social and ethical problems

Are human factors being sidelined in the headlong rush to develop new technologies? New technology is changing the way we live and work so quickly that it is easy to overlook the social and ethic...

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