The strategic role of technology in a good society

Philip Brey

Technology in Society, 2018, vol. 52, issue C, 39-45

Abstract: •Technologies often have social impacts that positively or negatively affect the realization of values defining a good society.•Intrinsic values for a good society are well-being and justice; instrumental values are freedom, democracy and sustainability.•For each of these values, there are ways to develop technology so as to systematically support it and promote a good society.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2017.02.002

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