Peril v. Promise: IoT and the Ethical Imaginaries

06/25/2019
by   Funda Ustek-Spilda, et al.
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The future scenarios often associated with Internet of Things (IoT) oscillate between the peril of IoT for the future of humanity and the promises for an ever-connected and efficient future. Such a dichotomous positioning creates problems not only for expanding the field of application of the technology, but also ensuring ethical and responsible design and production. As part of VirtEU (Values and Ethics in Innovation for Responsible Technology in Europe) (EU Horizon 2020 FP7), we have conducted ethnographic research into the main hubs of IoT in Europe, such as London, Amsterdam, Barcelona and Belgrade, with developers and designers of IoT to identify the challenges they face in their day-to-day work. In this paper, we focus on the IoT and the ethical imaginaries explore the practical challenges IoT developers face when they are designing, producing and marketing IoT technologies. We argue that top-down ethical frameworks that overlook the situated capabilities of developers or the solutionist approaches that treat ethical issues as technical problems are unlikely to provide an alternative to the dichotomous imaginary for the future.

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