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Book Reviews : The Information Game: Ethical Issues in a Microchip World Geoffrey Brown Publisher: Humanities Press International, Inc., Atlantic Highlands, NJ 07716; and 3 Henrietta Street, London, WC2E 8LU, U.K. Year of Publication: 1990 Length: 176 pages Price: $39.95

The Information Game: Ethical Issues in a Microchip World is a relatively nontechnical survey of some of the important ethical and social issues raised by the rapid growth of information technologies, primarily sophisticated databases. These include issues of political oppression, personal privacy, dehumanization, ownership rights, and the moral status of computers as "thinkers." The book is clearly written, useful in developing some important distinctions necessary to debate the relevant issues, but lacks the kind of sustained argumentation that such problems demand.

Social Science Computer Review, Vol. 10, No. 3, 422-424 (1992)
DOI: 10.1177/089443939201000327
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