ETHICAL ISSUES WITHIN TECHNOLOGY

GLOBAL INFORMATION:

• With technologies, the ways we organise the work, we learn new things and even our own lifestyle has made significant changes in the traditional patterns within the social, economical and cultural life.

• Rights of people over personal information. Nowadays, with the huge quantity of information we post in the social networks with the use of new technologies, we don't know and even we can't control what happens with that information once it moves around internet.  

• One of the biggest drawbacks of technologies is in the ethical ambit such as the materials, which are used to create these machines because they come from non-ecologic sources and the extraction destroys the planet.

• Meta-ethics deals with the nature of moral judgement. It looks at the origins and meaning of ethical principles.

• Normative ethics is concerned with the content of moral judgements and the criteria for what is right or wrong.

• Applied ethics looks at controversial topics like war, animal rights and capital punishment

• Scientists are attempting to use 3-D printing to create everything from architectural models to human organs.

INDIVIDUAL POINTS:

• María Muñoz Vallejo

Last thursday Miss Isabel Lopez came to explain us the importance of ethics in science, due to the fact that with it, when we have different options she explained us the way to get to the best option through ethics. 

She explained through the use of examples how ethics, which is the branch of filosophy which investigate the principles that guide our decisions and behaviours, in other words, is the study of the arguments and reasons about which actions are morally right, or morally wrong to follow a dignified conduct.

Until this point during the conference we all understood what does really ethics is and the importante of it in our lifes but, why ethics is important in science? Isabel López gave us for a moment the role of doctors and she told us different examples of situations that a doctor have to suffer every day. The principles of making the best decision are:

1) Take a moment and think about the situation
2) Clarify the objetives at short-term and at long-terms
3) Determinate the facts we know
4) Establish possible options
5) Considerate the consequences for all the parts the decisions affect to
6) Make the decision
7) If the decision do not obtain the effects that we wanted at first, look over the situation and make new decisions

In this video, uploaded by the University of Chicago, we can see how different proffesors and specialists give their opinion of how ethics works in science

While searching on the internet, I founded this article about 3 parents baby, a topic quite controversial these days, that defeat the role of ethics about it:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/11380784/Three-parent-babies-unethical-scary-and-wrong.html

• Carolina Navarro: 

Scientists are attempting to use 3-D printing to create everything from architectural models to human organs. While the technology still lags behind the hype, we could be looking at a future when we can print personalized pharmaceuticals or home-printed guns and explosives. Nowadays, in China they have been creating biological 3-D printer useful for transplantations, the first innovation was a kidney. Additionally, doctors are using this printer as a essential material in the operating room. As we learn today with Isabel Lopez, transplantation can create ethical problems to the society because of the preferences of who we give the transplanting organ. 

Here we have a video which clearly explain the use of 3-D biological printer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPC1IO29cV4

• Enrique Martín

One of the biggest drawbacks of technologies is in the ethical ambit such as the materials, which are used to create these machines because they come from non-ecologic sources and the extraction destroys the planet.

The use of this materials is like a big fire that little by little destroys the planet, so this needs to change as we are destroying the place where we live and really that is a bit stupid as we know the consequences.

Nevertheless, I believe in a community in which we all recycle and create technology the most ecological way.

• Mónica López

Rights of people over personal information. Nowadays, with the huge quantity of information we post in the social networks with the use of new technologies, we don't know and even we can't control what happens with that information once it moves around internet. Not being able to control the informatin that is exposed about us can turn to be a huge social problem as it affects the personal lives of people suffering cyber-bullying and reaching suicide. This is overall present in teenagers lives.