There are powerful undercurrents in motion that seek to change the way people work with and think about the nuclear industry. The nuclear energy industry is capable of transforming terrestrial life for better or worse. Never has an industry possessed...

Since the mid-twentieth century development has been promoted as the process of overcoming the condition of deprivation that prevails in many regions of the world. Underdevelopment is, correspondingly, a situation from which people and governments want...

Ethics of technology is a subfield of ethics addressing the ethical questions specific to the Technology Age. Some prominent works of philosopher Hans Jonas are devoted to ethics of technology. Technology itself is incapable of possessing moral or...

The ethical implications of recent technological advances are discussed, including computers, telecommunications, and the V-chip. Topics include e-mail, copyright and the World Wide Web, and control of Web use by parents and employers. In the classical definition of leisure as a state of...

Several years ago, I was--as far as I can tell--the first Western journalist to visit the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. I was taken there on a tour in the company of several engineers called in after the April 1986 explosion to clean it...

So many ethics crises pop up: backdating stock options, fudging numbers on income statements, conflicts of interest, using company money for personal items.One way to address the problem is to create a businesswide code of ethics.That's the solution Howard Gardner proposes.He's a professor at the...

To clone a living thing is to make an exact genetic copy of that organism. Individual genes—the biochemical building blocks that govern the structure and function of all living creatures—can be cloned, as can whole cells. Both gene and cell...

The rise of the Internet has meant different ethical issues must be addressed, such as online pornography, software privacy, and questionable marketing practices such as spam e-mail.