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A Critical Assessment of Verbeek's Theory of Moralizing Technology
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Taghavi, Mostafa (Supervisor)The Ethics of Information: Foundation to Regulate Moral Framework for Distributed Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), such as Bitcoin
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Taqavi, Mostafa (Supervisor)
Abstract
Information and communications technologies have affected the human world rapidly, which challenges the facing today’s information society. Extensive use and impact of these technologies in different aspects of human life have led to an information revolution. This revolution, changes in our understanding of the human nature and physical world. The human is an information organism among the other agents which is living in the informational environment, that is called the infosphere. Moreover, the information revolution has caused to emerge of “Bitcoin”; a phenomenon that is changing economic relations. Bitcoin is a “crypto-currency” and “encrypted payment system” that relying on a...