RT Article
T1 Tools-Я-us
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 13
IS 4
SP 243
OP 257
A1 King, Jonathan B.
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V
YR 1994
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1785605119
AB Our methods of inquiry predetermine most of what we are able to know. While our modes of understanding ought to correspond to the complexities confronting us in our modern technological society, they do not. “Soft” systems methodology helps us focus on what is problematic and how it can be approached — and offers direction to exert moral control over our tools and technologies., [Powerful new technologies] pose basic threats to people and to life on Earth . . . Unless we learn to live with them in safety, our future is likely to be both exciting and short. We cannot hope to foresee all the problems ahead, yet by paying attention to the big, basic issues, we can perhaps foresee the greatest challenges and get some idea of how to deal with them (K. Erik Drexler, 1986).
K1 Moral Control
K1 System Methodology
K1 Basic Issue
K1 Technological Society
K1 Economic Growth
DO 10.1007/BF00871671