Just Technology: The Quest for Cultural, Economic, Environmental, and Technical Sustainability

T. Siller, G. Johnson
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To address the complexity of today's global challenges requires new ways of thinking. The idea that technology is always the best, maybe only, approach worth taking needs to be reconsidered. Sustainable approaches must also draw from non technological areas. To that end, this book introduces the idea of just technology by rephrasing the idea of just war in order to include concepts of sustainability in future engineering design. The book begins by defining justice and relating these definitions to technology. This is followed by illustrating several notions of sustainability and the awareness that needs to be focused on societal challenges due to the finite resources available in the natural world. Four questions are enumerated to be addressed in order to qualify as a just use of technology: (1) Is the harm being inflicted by the problem on the community, the environment, or humanity, in general lasting, serious, and certain? (2) Have all alternative solutions been investigated first including non-technology-based solutions? Technology is the last choice, not the first! (3) Do we have confidence in the successful implementation of this technological solution? and (4) Is the potential harm from the technological solution potentially worse than the issue being addressed? Have all unintended consequences been considered that could arise from the technological solution? The book ends with a description for implementing these questions into the traditional engineering design process. Examples are included for reflection and help to understand how the design process proceeds.
公正的技术:追求文化、经济、环境和技术的可持续性
应对当今全球挑战的复杂性需要新的思维方式。技术永远是最好的,也许是唯一值得采取的方法,这种想法需要重新考虑。可持续办法还必须从非技术领域汲取经验。为此,本书通过重新表述正义战争的概念,引入了正义技术的概念,以便在未来的工程设计中包括可持续性的概念。本书首先定义了正义,并将这些定义与技术联系起来。接下来是说明可持续性的几个概念,以及由于自然世界中可用资源有限而需要关注社会挑战的意识。为了符合技术的正当使用,列举了四个问题需要解决:(1)该问题对社区、环境或人类造成的伤害是否持久、严重和确定?(2)是否首先调查了所有替代解决方案,包括非技术解决方案?技术是最后的选择,而不是第一选择!(3)我们对这项技术解决方案的成功实施有信心吗?(4)技术解决方案的潜在危害是否比正在解决的问题更严重?是否考虑了技术解决方案可能产生的所有意想不到的后果?这本书结束了对实现这些问题到传统的工程设计过程的描述。示例包括反思和帮助理解如何设计过程进行。
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