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1. Should we change the title to reflect the case-based approach that you
use in this book?
2. Will you be substituting newer cases for some of the cases that may no
longer be relevant?
3. How does your book compare to the following titles, which are numbers
one and two, respectively, among the most-adopted books in computer ethics
courses:
a. A Gift of Fire: Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues for Computers
and the Internet, 2e, (Prentice Hall) by Sara Baase
Now in its third edition, I used this book in my class when it was
originally published in 1985. Its philosophical theories are basically limited
to the two basic outlooks, relativism and absolutism. It is a bit verbose. I do
not feel it provides strong competition today.
4. You recommend that someone review some draft material about six
months before the manuscript is due. I would be agreeable to this
suggestion. If the book proposal were to be accepted at your meeting this
week, that would give me December, January, and February to write some
draft chapters to be submitted by March 1, and March through August to
prepare the manuscript for submission by September 1.
Question 3: Have existing materials been used by students? Yes, they are the
result of teaching a computer ethics class for more than twenty years.