PROBLEMS OF COMPUTER ETHICS (CONTINUATION)

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LOGICAL MALLEABILITY
Computers can be shaped and molded to perform any activity that can be characterized in terms of inputs, outputs and connecting logical operations. The logic of computers however can be shaped infinite ways through changes in hardware and software in terms of their usage. It enables computer based technology to exhibit tremendous flexibility.


IMPACT ON SOCIETY :
The impact of computerization on society is clear. Moor wrote in his paper relatively few could foresee the extent of that impact nor did anyone envisage the Internet and the World Wide Web. He also foresee the changing workplace and the nature of work.


INVISIBILITY FACTOR :
An important fact about computers is that most of the time and under most conditions computer operations are invisible. He identified 3 types of invisibility that have significance:

1. Invisible Abuse - it is the intentional use of the invisible operations of a computer to engage in unethical conduct.
2. Invisible Programming Values - are which according to Moor are embedded into a computer program.
3. Invisible Complex Calculation – the argument in this issue is how much we should entrust computer’s invisible calculation.