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Right/Wrong

How Technology Transforms Our Ethics

MIT Press, 2021 more...


Editorial Rating

9

Qualities

  • Controversial
  • Eye Opening
  • Bold

Recommendation

Academic and entrepreneur Juan Enriquez challenges your beliefs and ethics in his brilliant, bold, take-no-prisoners look at how morals change over time. Do you protest the caging of immigrant children? Do you eat emotional beings? Have you taken action against gun violence? Your politics don’t determine the validity of your ethics, but your answers probably affect how your children and society will judge you in the coming years and decades. People now face ruin over what they said or did 20 or 30 years ago. What you do and say today will likely determine your legacy – and perhaps, in the future, your fate.

Take-Aways

  • Technology, societal change and convenience drive the evolution of ethics and morals.
  • People change their ethics when their tribe changes its ethics.
  • Those who passively accept unethical behavior may face harsh judgment in the future.

About the Author

Juan Enriquez writes about the profound changes that brain research and genomics will bring about in business, technology, society and politics. He is the managing director of Excel Venture Management and has delivered 10 TED Talks.