[OPE-L:8328] Re: social responsibility of technologists

From: Paul Adler (padler@usc.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 13 2003 - 11:20:41 EST


There's a group called Computer Professionals for Social 
Responsibliity which does good work: http://www.cpsr.org/



At 8:56 AM -0500 1/13/03, gerald_a_levy wrote:
>I was asked the following off-list.  Does anyone have any
>suggested readings or comments?  I thought of John D.
>Bernal's _The social function of science_  but that was
>written in 1939.  The journal _Bulletin of Concerned
>Atomic Scientists_ also comes to mind as a possible
>resource. 
>
>Solidarity, Jerry
>
>CAN YOU SUGGEST ME A BOOK/READING WHERE I CAN FIND A DISCUSSION OF 
>THE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF TECHNOLOGISTS WHEN AND IF THEIR 
>INNOVATIONS SERVE ONLY THE RULING CAPITALIST CLASS?
>
>If you do research in technology, the fruits of your research will 
>ultimately help the capitalist grow rich and stronger and it will 
>throw the working class persons in the reserve army of 
>unemployed. Then should the technology abandon that project of 
>innovations or how should he make his innovations help the working 
>classes within the framework of the capitalist society?


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