When Ethics Meets Technology

2020 ◽  
pp. 270-286
Author(s):  
Tamar Apel Campo
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Ethical Principles ◽  
Naked Eye ◽  
The Future

Two conceptual platforms meet in the use of technologies: the technological milieu and the ethical principles that underlie every human action. The interface, called “use,” imposes a change of attitude in the behavior developed by humankind throughout centuries of mental evolution. This interface connects the two platforms although this is invisible to the naked eye. Using complex system analysis, it is possible to identify the components of the two platforms and understand the influences of their characteristics, providing a meaningful perspective of how technologies can contribute to the development of a secure and positive society in the future. The development and use of technologies can influence the developer/user in a positive or damaging way. Neuroscience's contributions point in this direction. The concern for the welfare of people affected by technologies is a must in the next era. The author intends to prove in an extensive way that for safety, ethic regulations should be considered for industry, health, and education.

Editor’s Pick: Regulatory and Ethical Issues in the New Era of Radiomics and Radiogenomics

EMJ Radiology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filippo Pesapane
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Medical Images ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Innovative Technology ◽  
New Era ◽  
Naked Eye ◽  
Disease Characteristics ◽  
The Future ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship

Radiomics is a science that investigates a large number of features from medical images using data-characterisation algorithms, with the aim to analyse disease characteristics that are indistinguishable to the naked eye. Radiogenomics attempts to establish and examine the relationship between tumour genomic characteristics and their radiologic appearance. Although there is certainly a lot to learn from these relationships, one could ask the question: what is the practical significance of radiogenomic discoveries? This increasing interest in such applications inevitably raises numerous legal and ethical questions. In an environment such as the technology field, which changes quickly and unpredictably, regulations need to be timely in order to be relevant.  In this paper, issues that must be solved to make the future applications of this innovative technology safe and useful are analysed.

NETWORK MODELS AS A SOLUTION FOR COMPLEX TECHNICAL PRODUCT`S DIAGNOSING PROBLEMS SOLVING

2019 ◽  
pp. 38-42
Author(s):  
S. Yu. Strakhov ◽  
A. A. Karasev
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Network Models ◽  
Functional Testing ◽  
Formal Models ◽  
Mathematical Apparatus ◽  
Complex Technical Systems ◽  
Technical Systems ◽  
Formalized Description ◽  
Diagnostic Software

Authors explore issue of applicability of the methodology of building diagnostic software using network formal models in the functional testing of electronic equipment as part of complex technical systems. Using methods of system analysis allows to perform a decomposition of interdependent subsystems and to reveal basic acts of interaction between the control‑verification equipment and the object of diagnosis. Mathematical apparatus of Petri nets should be employed for the formalized description of such acts and determined the cause‑and‑effect relations in the diagnosed complex system`s processes. Network models properties studying (such as safety and accomplishment of the final positions) allows us to move to the test object`s algorithm`s developing. The article presents an approach of a formalized description for basic acts of interaction between the diagnosis system and the object.

Distribution System Analysis and the Future Smart Grid

2011 ◽  
Vol 47 (6) ◽  
pp. 2343-2350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert F. Arritt ◽  
Roger C. Dugan
Keyword(s):  
Smart Grid ◽  
Distribution System ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
The Future

Open Science, Closed Doors? Countering Marginalization through an Agenda for Ethical, Inclusive Research in Communication

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse Fox ◽  
Katy E Pearce ◽  
Adrienne L Massanari ◽  
Julius Matthew Riles ◽  
Łukasz Szulc ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Science ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Ethical Principles ◽  
Respect For Persons ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Science Practices ◽  
Research Communication ◽  
The Future

Abstract The open science (OS) movement has advocated for increased transparency in certain aspects of research. Communication is taking its first steps toward OS as some journals have adopted OS guidelines codified by another discipline. We find this pursuit troubling as OS prioritizes openness while insufficiently addressing essential ethical principles: respect for persons, beneficence, and justice. Some recommended open science practices increase the potential for harm for marginalized participants, communities, and researchers. We elaborate how OS can serve a marginalizing force within academia and the research community, as it overlooks the needs of marginalized scholars and excludes some forms of scholarship. We challenge the current instantiation of OS and propose a divergent agenda for the future of Communication research centered on ethical, inclusive research practices.

Future by Design

Futures ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 500-513
Author(s):  
Christina Garsten ◽  
Adrienne Sörbom
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Think Tanks ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Shared Understanding ◽  
Perceived Need ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Rational Process ◽  
Sense Of Urgency

This chapter critiques the anticipatory practices of contemporary organizations, such as think tanks and management consultancies, which offer methods and forecasts about possible and desirable futures. These organizations, the chapter argues, contribute to creating a sense of urgency with respect to the future, capitalizing on the perceived need among decision makers to grasp contemporary events, and provide tools and content by which the future can be designed. It argues that future forecast scenarios assist in the creation of a particular type of authority: one geared to the contemporary global situation and to an increasingly complex system of global governance. The chapter interrogates this particular type of authority to argue it is not singular and dominant, but instead comprises the varying interests of many different actors and is underscored by rational process, which offers the possibility of a wider shared understanding

scholarly journals Complex System Analysis of Korean Peninsula Earthquake Data

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sangwon Chae ◽  
Suyoung Jang ◽  
Sangmok Lee ◽  
Donghyun Lee
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Korean Peninsula ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Earthquake Data

The Simple Reality of Our Complex System: The Future of Health Care

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 825-828 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Delivery System ◽  
Affordable Care Act ◽  
The United States ◽  
System Reform ◽  
The Future ◽  
Delivery System Reform

The incredible complexity of the United States health care system can be connected to three simple outcomes: access, affordability, and quality. We should measure our progress against these three measures. While historic progress on access was made through implementation of the Affordable Care Act, the next area of focus for more results across all three measures is delivery system reform.

Reconnecting governance configuration variables to enterprises contingency factors for optimizing productivity at the start-up level

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter Amedzro St-Hilaire
Keyword(s):  
Structural Design ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
System Control ◽  
Ceteris Paribus ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Start Up ◽  
The Future

PurposeThe article broaches the important topic of the relationships between governance operationalizations and productivity at the start-up level. It proposes a new approach to reconnect the contingency factors to the optimization of productivity. This helps us to identify the changing characteristics that influence the determinants of decisions, actions and management of the technological projects of the mainly innovative enterprises.Design/methodology/approachThe study uses techniques that effectively solve unobserved endogeneity and heterogeneity problems in enterprises: an empirical–structural design. With this method, this study enables rich empirical conceptualization and helps with extending theory. However, there is a need to further the research by taking into account the system analysis and the complexity of the research object: one of the options might be to explore a possible follow-up of the research through drawing on ethnostatistics and qualimetrics.FindingsThe analysis reveals that the phenomenon of technological project productivity in operational governance context is thus manifested by the coexistence of the applied governance configuration variables, the contingency factors operationalization, the optimizing productivity mechanisms and this with the secular innovation and stagnation and stagnation. Ceteris paribus, the governance operationalizations have an important role in the productivity of technological projects of the innovative enterprises.Originality/valueThis research is the first to mobilize as major determinants of the operationalization of governance, the oversight of the capital, the dividend strategy and the system control, the managerial follow-up, the detection of opportunistic behaviours and the application of governing incentives (among others) as governance configuration variables in order to highlight their interactions with productivity in the innovative firm technological projects. For this reason alone, the paper will be referenced by other authors in the future.

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