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a gift of fire social, legal, and ethical issues in computing, sara baase文档
Ethics and Information Technology 2: 241–247, 2000.
© 2001 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands.
Book review
A Gift of Fire: Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues Laws are fundamentally different from personal
in Computing, Sara Baase. Upper Saddle River, choices and organizational policies because they
NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1997, ix + 382 pp, ISBN: impose decisions by force on people who did not
0-13-458779-0 make them. Arguments for passing a law should be
qualitatively different from reasons for adopting a
A Gift of Fire is an extraordinary work by an personal or organizational policy. It may seem odd
extraordinarily gifted mind. It is at once a textbook at first, but arguments on the merits of the proposal
and a scholarly treatise. Its author has read everything, – for example, that it is a good idea, or is efficient, or
but modestly displays her erudition only as needed. is good for business, or is helpful to consumers – are
The text comes alive with vignettes, historical asides, not good arguments for a law. These arguments can
anecdotes, and just-right quotations garnered from be used to try to convince a person or organization
the scholarly, trade, popular, and classical literat- to (voluntarily) adopt a particular policy. Arguments
ures, as well as from reports by journalists and all for a law must show why the decision should be
sorts of on-line fora. The writing is elegant and enforced against someone who does not agree that
graceful, the conclusions follow from the premises, it is a good idea.2
and everything is in its right order. What it must have
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