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Ten commandmenTs
oFcompuTeR eThics
A Case Study in Intuition-Based Decision Making
RAMON C. BARQUIN
Barquin International
17.1 Introduction
Let me assure you that I am no cyber-Moses and that any attempt
to compare me with that biblical figure is terribly embarrassing to
me. Yet it seems like a logical place to start this narrative of how
the Ten Commandments of Computer Ethics were written and the
role that intuition-based decision making played in the process.
First, let us provide some background on cyberethics in general and
then we will discuss the Ten Commandments of Computer Ethics,
inspecific.
17.2 Cyberethics and Need for a Code of Conduct for the Cyber World
Cyberethics or computer ethics can be “defined” broadly as ethics inthe ...