Computer Ethics as a field of study was founded by Norbert wiener,a proffessor in in the Mit ,in the early 1940s while helping to devolop an anti aircraft cannon capable of shooting down fast warplanes.One part of the cannon had to be percieve and track an airplane then caluculate its likely trajectory and'talk'to another part of the cannon to fire the shells.The engineering challenge of this project caused wiener and some colleagues to create a new branch of science ,which wiener called 'cybernetics'--the science of information feed back created at time .led wiener to draw some remarkabley insightful ethical conclusions .He perceptively fore saw revotionary social and ethical consequences.In 1948.
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