Benefits are apparent when a new technology comes, however, it can also be easy to overlook its potential problems. Much of our modern lives are dominated by technology and while tech innovations and advancements have helped pave the way for a modernized healthcare industry, and a faster and easier way to communicate, but still humanity faces ethical dilemmas every day that haven’t come without serious questions. Paired with the undeniable benefits of widespread technology use are ethical concerns about the impacts of privacy, human behavior, the environment and spirituality.

The technology industry is experiencing startling changes that are profoundly altering the character of society. It is faced with major problems like socio-economic inequality, health and human impact, privacy, safety and security. Social impacts of technology are beginning to be a serious concern globally. Tech developers and tech users should be taking the center stage to address most of these concerns and to make sure that the technology development process reaches maturity.

The period of maturity in the life of a tree is the time of its fruit-bearing, likewise a human reaches maturity when the light of their intelligence attains its greatest power and development. There have been periods and stages in the collective life of humanity where at some point in time it was passing through its stage of childhood, at another its period of youth, but now it is entering the phase of maturity, the evidences of which are everywhere apparent. The things which were applicable to human needs during the early stages of development can neither meet nor satisfy the demands of this day.

Similarly with technology maturity, humanity must emerge from its state of limitation and preliminary training and become imbued with new virtues and powers, new moral standards, new capacities, and new approaches. Technological maturity must be achieved through the process of consultation. The primary means of achieving meaningful participation is through spiritually based indicators including trustworthiness, equity, justice and a humble posture of learning.

Although the field of ethics in technology is still evolving, it is time that it becomes a fundamental aspect of the technology development process. Through the consultation process and meaningful participation of the community in tech development, the framework of the ethical technology will grow organically and evolve over time as the society which it serves evolves.

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