Information ethics of modern society

The paper brings up an issue of information ethics role in using information technologies of modern society and reflects the views of N. Wiener on principles of solving ethic problems in the field of application of information techniques as well as his contribution to the development of the informat...

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Main Author: O. M. Manzhueva
Format: Article
Language:Russian
Published: Tomsk Polytechnic University 2019-05-01
Series:Известия Томского политехнического университета: Инжиниринг георесурсов
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Online Access:http://izvestiya.tpu.ru/archive/article/view/1258
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Summary:The paper brings up an issue of information ethics role in using information technologies of modern society and reflects the views of N. Wiener on principles of solving ethic problems in the field of application of information techniques as well as his contribution to the development of the information ethics. The paper reveals the main moral principles of the future society called the Wiener "great principle of justice", their influence on analysis of occurring information and ethic issues and transformation of the main human values. The author has considered the views of K. Gorniak-Korsikovskaya on prospects for development of information ethics: computer ethics degeneration into global ethics of information age. The paper reflects the positions of information ethic theory of L. Floridi which determine special features of a new ethics of the modern society. The author stated the main objective of the information ethics and described the consequences of entropy and "four principles" of its extermination from information environment. The author made the conclusion on the important purpose, the main aim and the objectives of the ethics.
ISSN:2500-1019
2413-1830