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Robot Ethics
Robots today serve in many roles, from entertainer to educator to executioner. As robotics technology advances, ethical concerns become more pressing: Should robots be programmed to follow a code of ethics, if this is even possible? Are there risks in forming emotional bonds with robots? How might society--and ethics--change with robotics? This volume is the first book to bring together prominent scholars and experts from both science and the humanities to explore these and other questions in this emerging field. Starting with an overview of the issues and relevant ethical theories, the topics flow naturally from the possibility of programming robot ethics to the ethical use of military robots in war to legal and policy questions, including liability and privacy concerns. The contributors then turn to human-robot emotional relationships, examining the ethical implications of robots as sexual partners, caregivers, and servants. Finally, they explore the possibility that robots, whether biological-computational hybrids or pure machines, should be given rights or moral consideration. Ethics is often slow to catch up with technological developments. This authoritative and accessible volume fills a gap in both scholarly literature and policy discussion, offering an impressive collection of expert analyses of the most crucial topics in this increasingly important field.
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The Nature of Data
When we look at some of the most pressing issues in environmental
politics today, it is hard to avoid data technologies. Big data,
artificial intelligence, and data dashboards all promise
\"revolutionary\" advances in the speed and scale at which
governments, corporations, conservationists, and even individuals
can respond to environmental challenges. By bringing together
scholars from geography, anthropology, science and technology
studies, and ecology, The Nature of Data explores how the
digital realm is a significant site in which environmental politics
are waged. This collection as a whole makes the argument that we
cannot fully understand the current conjuncture in critical, global
environmental politics without understanding the role of data
platforms, devices, standards, and institutions. In particular,
The Nature of Data addresses the contested practices of
making and maintaining data infrastructure, the imaginaries
produced by data infrastructures, the relations between state and
civil society that data infrastructure reworks, and the conditions
under which technology can further socio-ecological justice instead
of re-entrenching state and capitalist power. This innovative
volume presents some of the first research in this new but rapidly
growing subfield that addresses the role of data infrastructures in
critical environmental politics.
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How Finance Is Shaping the Economies of China, Japan, and Korea
This volume connects the evolving modern financial systems of China, Japan, and Korea to the development and growth of their economies through the first decade of the twenty-first century. It also identifies the commonalities among all three systems while accounting for their social, political, and institutional differences.
Essays consider the reforms of the Chinese economy since 1978, the underwhelming performance of the Japanese economy since about 1990, and the growth of the Korean economy over the past three decades. These economies engaged in rapid catch-up growth processes and share similar economic structures. Yet while domestic forces have driven each country's financial trajectory, international short-term financial flows have presented opportunities and challenges for them all. The nature and role of the financial system in generating real economic growth, though nuanced and complex, is integral to these countries. The result is a fascinating spectrum of experiences with powerful takeaways.
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Options for Global Trade Reform
Despite the decision of the WTO members to launch a new round of negotiations at their Doha Ministerial in November 2001, developing countries continue to have very real concerns on a number of key issues. The successful completion of the Doha trade round and the realization of the goals of its Development Agenda represent a major challenge for both the developed and the developing world. The primary aim of this volume is to improve understanding of the issues, the objectives of policy and the options for trade policy reform particularly as they impact on the Asia-Pacific region. A team of authors from developing and developed countries in the Asia-Pacific identify ways in which progress might be made on the key negotiating topics, including market access and related issues in agriculture, non-agriculture merchandise and in trade in services.
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