Google Internal philosophers: the industry needs to think about the ethics of mobile products

Google employee Damon Horowitz was co-founder of several start-up companies. His most recent venture is the Aardvark Q & A Web site, and then acquired by Google. Damon Horowitz's interesting is that he has a doctorate of philosophy in the company everyone called him "a philosopher."

Once the topic relates to the field of ethics of science and technology, Horowitz will ask you is like iPhone or Android. When most people said, "like the iPhone" when, Horowitz to joke that you are "taken advantage" only because the choice of equipment looks pretty.

Subsequently, Horowitz will ask: should monitor the user's call records, to provide users with various services? Then again, Horowitz would move out of a large set of theories to educate you. Not surprisingly, the result is that not many people can understand what he was saying.

"The result is terrible. We care about a strong function of the phone, but do not care whether these functions within an ethical framework."

The voice of the general will argue: technical personnel should focus on technology, technology should not be too much to consider beyond the moral issues. Horowitz firmly believe that physicists have predicted that in the great destruction the atomic bomb, the Manhattan Project should be treated with caution. Extended opening, the industry doing mobile operating system, it should also take into account the "moral operating system."

"High moral is difficult, it requires deep thinking, which requires each of us to sanity. Now we have so much power, in the end what it can do and what not to do things, need to think clearly."