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Ethical Challenges in Digital DIY
Digital DIY has the potential to democratize manufacturing and give more freedom to individuals by making it easier and cheaper for people to personally manufacture a variety of products. However, this increased freedom also raises ethical challenges as it forces society to determine what regulations should exist around personally manufacturing products like toys for children, medical equipment, car parts, and furniture that could be used on or affect other people. While freedom is good, people must also consider how to ensure safety as increased individual production could enable the creation of dangerous objects.
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- 1. Ethical Challenges inDigital DIY Digital DIY Community Day, Barcelona, July 2016 (Marco Fioretti, Free Knowledge Institute)
- 2. Digital DIY... ● Makespersonal manufacturing of ALL sorts of products much easier and cheaper ● Gives potentially to everybody the freedom to: ○ Own (only) what they really need ○ Create spare parts for what they already own ○ Reduce pollution ○ Share all these benefits with everybody else
- 3. ● Freedom isgood ● Digital DIY gives more people more freedom ● So Digital DIY is good, right?
- 4. ● Wait: ● Freedomis good ● But people are dangerous
- 5. ● Digital DIY,and personal manufacturing in general… ● forces society to... ● redefine what is wrong or right
- 6. How do youfeel about Digital, DIY products like: ● (yes, besides weapons..) ● Toys for small children ● Medical equipment ● Spare parts of cars ● Furniture ● when used on other people? ● Should they be prohibited or regulated? HOW?