Ch. 1: Prologue The author recalls his attendance as a young reporter at the first international conference on the human environment, held in Stockholm in…
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Articles by Wade Rowland on communications technology, philosophy of science and religion, travel and other topics, including some scholarly articles.
In the current rush to find ways to create regulatory guardrails around burgeoning AI technologies, an important part of the puzzle is getting far less attention than it deserves. Think of this way: AI is just a tool, and whether it is used for good or for ill is in its users’ hands.
“Wade Rowland’s Morality by Design is also a cri de coeur, a kind of twenty-first-century Ten Commandments. Human morality ought to inform technological design, Rowland…
Social EpistemologyVol. 19, Nos. 2-3, April–September 2005, pp. 287–313 Recognizing the Role of the Modern Business Corporation in the “Social Construction” of Technology Wade Rowland…
With the adoption early Wednesday morning of legislation to seamlessly transfer Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) recipients over to Employment Insurance, Ottawa has moved one…
Ottawa should seize this historic opportunity to rationalize the country’s social safety net with a guaranteed basic income for all Canadians.
I have spent much of my working life toiling in various fields journalism, a craft that allowed me to indulge an obsessive interest in trying…
The field of communications and its practitioners are complicit in the construction and promotion of this new, potentially deeply anti-human economic frontier. While the technology and its applications may be bewilderingly new and awesomely potent, the moral obligations of workers and professionals are ultimately to be located in basic moral thought, and in particular, I would urge, in moral realism. The debate necessary to arrive at guiding ethical principles is only just beginning, but it has a profound body of consensus on which to build.