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GMS802
Chapter 10
Question | Answer |
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Managing at the Frontier without Ethics | Rely on the marketplace to decide what is "good" technology. Its not my job to worry about the consequence of using technology. |
Managing at the Frontier with Ethics ask: | What parallel issues and previous decisions can help guide my decisions? Who are the new stakeholders relevant for managing at the frontier? |
What places technologies at the frontier? | New technology, advancement in existing technology, mass marketing of existing technology. |
Managing at the frontier | Managers uncomfortable with the product and how it will be incorporated into new user community. Lack of precedent and unknown outcomes. Genus-species approach- ties ethics at the frontier to existing ethical principles. |
Managing the frontier | Risks uncertainty, creation of new frontiers, privacy, ownership, responsibility. |
Risk | able to reasonably estimate probability. |
Uncertainty | you do not know the probabilities to assign. |
What contributes to Uncertainty? Unintended uses | e.g. the practice if prescribing a drug for a purpose not intended by the pharmaceutical company that produced it. |
What contributes to Uncertainty? Unintended consequences | e.g. terrorists and criminals using the internet to share knowledge and find victims |
To manage uncertainty at the frontier ask: | How people change the technology? How easy is it to change? How can i predict the implication? |
Creation of New Frontiers | When closely held innovation is released to a new community a new frontier has been created. |
Internet and World wide web | scientists used DARPANet for years before it reached private individuals. |
Ford and the automobile | by introducing the car to the masses new infrastructure had to be created. |
Genetically Modified (GM) Foods | countries without government regulation invited genetically modified crops into their agriculture system without telling end consumers |
Nestle's Infant Formula | was introduced to Africa which did not have adequate clean drinking water causing drastic effects and ethical problems. |
Privacy is defined by | The inaccessibility of information. The control an individual has over his/her information. |
Individuals are better able to protect their privacy if they know | Where the zones of privacy are (e.g. eBay informs individuals of exactly where their information is being used). Under what conditions information enters and leaves the zones. |
Property RIghts 2 views: | Labor or Lockean View, Utilitarian View |
Labor or Lockean View | My product belongs to me because I worked hard to produce this property. I have a right to fruits of my labor. |
Utilitarian View | Inventors have the exclusive right to their innovations for a limited time. Balance the right of innovator to reap the reward of his/her product with the need to promote progress in society. |