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Why Technology Always Bites Back

In: The Crisis-Prone Society: A Brief Guide to Managing the Beliefs that Drive Risk in Business

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  • Ian I Mitroff

    (University of California)

  • Can M. Alpaslan

    (California State University)

Abstract

We investigate the faulty assumptions responsible for the failure of a prime technology. We show that many of the faulty assumptions apply to virtually all technologies, and that, in essence, technology is literally encased in a vast and complex web of institutions and stakeholders, and their assumptions. We raise a prime ethical question: If technologies contain potentially dangerous known and unknown side effects, should we ever use any technology, the consequences of which we do not completely understand and are able to contain? We argue that the management of technology and Ethical Management must be done together at every step from the initial design of a technology to its operation, maintenance, and eventual disposal. In short, we show why technology and ethics are inseparable.

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  • Ian I Mitroff & Can M. Alpaslan, 2014. "Why Technology Always Bites Back," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Crisis-Prone Society: A Brief Guide to Managing the Beliefs that Drive Risk in Business, chapter 3, pages 21-28, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-45483-6_3
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137454836_3
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