Ethix & IBTE Enter Fourth Year This issue — Ethix 19 — is the first in our fourth year of bimonthly publication. A great deal has changed over these three years, and significant changes are planned for the coming year. In October 1998, we produced our first issue and mailed it to 150 of our …
Discovering Ethix I have just encountered your very stimulating web site, which I will mention in the newsletter I edit (Digital Revolution Alert). I have also done work on the ‘metaphysics of technology’ about the ‘why’ of our technological quest, with some surprising answers. A three-hour TV documentary was shown on Dutch and Flemish television …
I recently received an e-mail from a highly-stressed friend, an executive in the telecommunications business. He described what he was going through as “the meltdown in the telecom industry.” This is indeed a tough time for all segments of that industry. How did we get here? The usual explanations cover most of the reasons. Many …
John Seely Brown speaks about his experiences at Xerox.
Over the past three years the core mission of the Institute for Business, Technology, and Ethics has remained constant: to examine in a positive, constructive way the contemporary intersection of business, technology, and ethics. Wherever those three meet — or wherever they should meet — we are interested. With respect to the first and third …
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Management Challenges for the 21st Century by Peter F. Drucker
The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age
by Pekka Himanen
The End of Money, and the Struggle for Financial Privacy
by Richard W. Rahn
