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The dominant cultural fact, present in both modern warfare and modern medicine, which induces a sharper awareness of the fragility of human life is our technology. To live as we do in an age of careening development of technology is to face a qualitatively new range of moral problems. War has been a perennial threat to human life, but today the threat is qualitatively different due to nuclear weapons. We now threaten life on a scale previously unimaginable. As the pastoral letter put it, the dangers of clear war teach us to read the book of Genesis with new eyes. From the inception of life to its decline, __a rapidly expanding technology opens new opportunities for care but also poses new potential to threaten the sanctity of life.__

Selected Works of Joseph Cardinal Bernardin: Volume 2 - Church and Society

Alphonse P. Spilly, editor

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How to Take Smart Notes

Sönke Ahrens

According to Mayer-Schoenberger and Cukier (2013), each single data set is likely to have some intrinsic, hidden, not yet unearthed value, and companies are engaged in a race to discover how to capture and rate this value. But as Lisa Gitelman aptly states, “raw data” is an oxymoron: __“Data are not facts, they are ‘that which is given prior to argument’ given in order to provide a rhetorical basis. Data can be good or bad, better or worse, incomplete and insufficient”__ (Gitelman 2013: 7).

Datafication, dataism and dataveillance: Big Data between scientific paradigm and ideology - 2014

José van Dijck

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