The morally disruptive future of reprogenetic enhancement technologies

J Rueda, J Pugh, J Savulescu - Trends in Biotechnology, 2023 - cell.com
Emerging reprogenetic technologies may enable the enhancement of our offspring's genes.
Beyond raising ethical questions, these biotechnologies may change some aspects of future …

[HTML][HTML] What are socially disruptive technologies?

J Hopster - Technology in Society, 2021 - Elsevier
Scholarly discourse on “disruptive technologies” has been strongly influenced by disruptive
innovation theory. This theory is tailored for analyzing disruptions in markets and business. It …

[HTML][HTML] AI, big data, and the future of consent

AJ Andreotta, N Kirkham, M Rizzi - Ai & Society, 2022 - Springer
In this paper, we discuss several problems with current Big data practices which, we claim,
seriously erode the role of informed consent as it pertains to the use of personal information …

Moral progress: Recent developments

H Sauer, C Blunden, C Eriksen… - Philosophy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Societies change over time. Chattel slavery and foot‐binding have been abolished,
democracy has become increasingly widespread, gay rights have become established in …

[HTML][HTML] Conceptual disruption and 21st century technologies: A framework

G Löhr - Technology in Society, 2023 - Elsevier
Modern technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics, geo-engineering, social media, or
next-generation genomics have been and will continue to be socially (culturally …

[HTML][HTML] Do socially disruptive technologies really change our concepts or just our conceptions?

G Löhr - Technology in Society, 2023 - Elsevier
New technologies have the potential to severely “challenge” or “disrupt” not only our
established social practices but our most fundamental concepts and distinctions like person …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms of techno-moral change: A taxonomy and overview

J Danaher, HS Sætra - Ethical theory and moral practice, 2023 - Springer
The idea that technologies can change moral beliefs and practices is an old one. But how,
exactly, does this happen? This paper builds on an emerging field of inquiry by developing a …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding technology-induced value change: A pragmatist proposal

I Van de Poel, O Kudina - Philosophy & Technology, 2022 - Springer
We propose a pragmatist account of value change that helps to understand how and why
values sometimes change due to technological developments. Inspired by John Dewey's …

Pistols, pills, pork and ploughs: the structure of technomoral revolutions

JKG Hopster, C Arora, C Blunden, C Eriksen, LE Frank… - Inquiry, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The power of technology to transform religions, science, and political institutions has often
been presented as nothing short of revolutionary. Does technology have a similarly …

Moral uncertainty in technomoral change: bridging the explanatory gap

PJ Nickel, O Kudina, I van de Poel - Perspectives on Science, 2022 - direct.mit.edu
This paper explores the role of moral uncertainty in explaining the morally disruptive
character of new technologies. We argue that existing accounts of technomoral change do …