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The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Architectural Reconstruction
This companion investigates the philosophical and theoretical foundations determining the conditions of possibility and the limits that make the conservation, readaptation, and transformation of past buildings legitimate operations. As increasing ecological and economic challenges question opportunities for new construction, the process of restoring, transforming, and readapting buildings for new or continued use is becoming an essential part of architectural practice. At the same time, the role of building conservation is changing from mere material preservation to being part of a broader strategy for social regeneration, eco-awareness, and inclusive urban planning. Chapters of this volume ...
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Surveillance, Security, and Privacy
Although surveillance hit the headlines with revelations by Edward Snowden that the National Security Agency had been tracking phone calls worldwide, surveillance of citizens by their governments actually has been conducted for centuries. Only now, with the advent of modern technologies, it has exponentially evolved so that today you can barely step out your door without being watched or recorded in some way. In addition to the political and security surveillance unveiled by the Snowden revelations, think about corporate surveillance: each swipe of your ID card to enter your office is recorded, not to mention your Internet activity. Or economic surveillance: what you buy online or with a cre...
Robot Ethics
Prominent experts from science and the humanities explore issues in robot ethics that range from sex to war. 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,...
Ethics and Robotics
"Ethics and robotics are two academic disciplines, one dealing with the moral norms and values underlying implicitly or explicitly human behavior and the other aiming at the production of artificial agents, mostly as physical devices, with some degree of autonomy based on rules and programmes set up by their creators. Robotics is also one of the research fields where the convergence of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive science is currently taking place with large societal and legal implications beyond traditional industrial applications. Robots are and will remain -in the foreseeable future- dependent on human ethical scrutiny as well as on the moral and leg...
Die Privatsphäre im Internet
Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Fachkommunikation, Sprache, Note: 1,7, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Privatsphäre im Internet ist immer wieder Gegenstand verschiedenster Diskussionen. In der Regel entzünden sich diese Diskussionen an bestimmten Entwicklungen, wie bspw. das Aufkommen der so genannten "Social Networks" wie studiVZ oder Facebook und den damit verbundenen Fragen, ob hier die Nutzer nicht zu viel von sich preisgeben und ob solche Plattformen zu sehr in die Privatsphäre eingreifen. Eine Reaktion besteht darin, neue Gesetze zum Schutze der Privatsphäre zu fordern, um damit auf neue Entwicklungen wie das...
Library Literature & Information Science
An index to library and information science literature.
