Tuesday, August 25, 2009

In 1985

Since 1985,the field of computers ethics has grown exponentially .New universities courses,research centers conferences articles and text books have appeared and a wide diversity of additonal scholors and topics have been havebecome involved.Devolopments in Europe and Australiahave been especially note worthy with new research centers begins set up in England ,poland ,Holland and italy and international conferences such as the ETHICOMP series of confirences beingor ganised.
Given the explosive growth of computer ethics during the two devades the fiels appears to have a very robust and significiant future.How can it be then two important thinkers-krystyna Gorniak-KociKowska and Deborah Johnson---have recently argued that computer ethics will disappear as a branch of applied ethics .
In her 1995 ETHICOMP paper ,Gorniak predicted that computer ethics which is currently considered just a branch of applied ethics,will elvove in to a sytem of global ethics applicable in every circute on earth.

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