By Cees Hamelink
ISBN-10: 0761966684
ISBN-13: 9780761966685
During this publication, Cees J Hamelink proposes a solution to - how may still democratic societies arrange our on-line world? - that places human-rights, instead of revenue, on the most sensible of the schedule. He argues that traditional moral techniques are all heavily mistaken. there's a becoming quantity of ethical ideas, netiquettes and codes of behavior, yet they're of little assist in fixing the ethical dilemmas raised through the recent applied sciences. during this e-book the writer analyzes the inadeqacies of present international governance guidelines and buildings that underpin them, and argues for criteria which placed justice, human safeguard and freedom first.
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Rather than thinking in terms of a revolutionary change from the past, or a radically new 'paradigm', the 'information society' can be described as a logical sequence to previous historical phases. The gravest problem with the prevailing scenario is that it ignores the social origins of the ICTs. It suggests that they originate in a socioeconomic vacuum. Their generation and development is, however, always led by specific interests, usually of a commercial and military nature. The information society scenario refers to leTs as disembodied, independent factors.
The conventional framework suggests that changes in ICTs (labelled as revolutionary) cause changes in society (also labelled as revolutionary). These changes provide the basis for claims to utopian versus anti-utopian scenarios. The key assumption is that there is an Information Revolution! Basic to this social revolution is a technological revolution which is unlike all previous technological developments. The Information Revolution will lead to the creation of the Global Information Society. This society is fundamentally different from earlier societies.
The tricks used by large international firms are now also available to the ordinary taxpayer. As cyberspace pioneer John Perry Barlow sees it there are bad times ahead for fiscal authorities. Taxation is based upon knowledge about flows of money and their proprietors and on the principle of territoriality. This is all changing. With digital capital it becomes increasingly difficult if not impossible to know who owns what money. Moreover, national territories are no longer of any importance. The taxpayers can live anywhere in the virtual world.
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