On Ethics

Rocky L. Ho Chapter 40 Title: “Subsumption Ethics” by David H. Gleason Quote: “The difference between computers and simple machines is the extent to which computer systems design and development decisions over which users have little or no control.”

Expectations: I expect to learn about the system development, ethical frameworks.

Book Review: The author of this chapter is David Gleason. He discussed the standard problems for software system development. It started at the discussions for ethics and how it was described thru subsumption of ethics. I have read that subsumption ethics has to be analyzed when it come to the system design or in the system development. There are cases were there has been releasing of new technology but there are lots of people who doesn’t know about it, we have to always update ourselves for us to know what’s happening in our society.

Things I have learned: I learned that the organization policy drives information technology development.

Integrity Questions: 1.) What is subsumption? 2.) What is system development? 3.) What is ethical framework? 4.) Who is the author of this chapter? 5.) What do we get from this chapter?