Future Implications: Ethics in technology
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Google made the list of the World's Most Ethical Companies, but Microsoft, Apple and Sony did not. In response, Don asks a simple question: why?
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If you hang around on web-related mailing lists long enough, you start getting the idea that the future is full of metadata. Now, this metadata may or may not be XML, or it may or may not be RDF or OWL or a dozen other technologies with impressive-sounding words like &ldquo;ontology&rdquo; in their names. It may or may not be the long-dreamt-of (and often derided) &ldquo;Semantic Web.&rdquo; In fact, it may or may not be a dozen different buzzwords, and it may or may not be a good thing. But whatever the future is, it will definitely be full of metadata; on this the experts agree.    To my mind there&rsquo;s a problem with this: the argument always seems to depend on technologies which don&rsquo;t exist or aren&rsquo;t quite ready yet, so it always falls back to talking about how things will be &ldquo;in the future,&rdquo; which may never get here. Luckily, there's an easy way to add oodles of metadata to your documents right this minute, without having to learn anything more complicated than trusty old HTML 4.01. If it catches on, &ldquo;the future&rdquo; might get here a lot sooner than expected.
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Life & style: Organic or fairtrade? Sustainable or certified? How useful are ethical labels? Lucy Siegle investigates
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Blog: Industry leaders are worried that evolving technology may be getting a bad rap.
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By WILLIAM REES-MOGG Ten years ago, an American analyst, James Davidson, and I published a book on the prospects for the information age, The Sovereign Individual. When I reread it now, it seems rather a good book, with a number of insights that have proved correct.
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Do future generations need a legal representative today to protect their interests? Some legal and environmental scholars think so.
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New communications technology could spawn futuristic products. Could your purse tell you to bring an umbrella?
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Paypal founder, Facebook backer and hedge-fund founder Peter Thiel looks forward to the "singularity," the day when computers achieve greater than human intelligence. We can invest to profit from this breakthrough, assuming the robots don't destroy the human race first, he says.
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Government is using technology to burden their future -- and it's all our fault. By Lawrence Lessig from Wired magazine.
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Internet law professor Michael Geist wonders whether technology threatens the legal foundations of privacy law.
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An invitation to a conference on the politics of waste leads to thoughts on the relationship of dirt and technology -- thoughts that lead inexorably to the trash-can icon on personal computers. Commentary by Momus.
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New publications, experiments and breakthroughs in information technology--and what they mean.
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Uncovering tomorrow's industry leaders today.
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Sci-fi like Michael Crichton's "Next" brings up the most important ethical conversations we're not having
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By Krell, Eric  IN THE BUSINESS WORLD, TECHNOLOGY MATTERS-EVEN IF SOME HIGHLY INFLUENTIAL THOUGHT LEADERS MIGHT SAY, OR WRITE, OTHERWISE.
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Il convoglio futuristico ha urtato un mezzo di manutenzione
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Search engine optimization vendors and other companies can help corporations and individuals monitor and manage their online reputations. But are they crossing ethical boundaries by tinkering with Web search results?