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This book is about the importance of having social controls over information technology in order to ensure that the benefits of technology are used in a responsible way. It discusses the mistakes that have been made with information technology, and argues for the need to put some integrity into technology in order to ensure that the benefits are used in a fair and equitable way.
This book examines the effect of Information Technology on our lives, illustrating how a lack of proper social control over IT has led to a scene of technological wizardry and real everyday gains, contaminated by discrimination, deprivation and unacceptable ethical standards. The book states the case, analyses the mistakes, hits hard at those responsible for these, offers ways of ensuring that we all get the benefits of IT, and argues the need to put some integrity into technology.
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