Re-ontologizing Ethical Tech and Emerging Trends in Digital Technologies

Abstract

Technologies plays a crucial role in social and political ordering, and every other aspect of human lives as it evolves and revolves over time. The recent technological revolution; digital revolution is no exception as far as this is concerned. Having said this, the goal of the paper, therefore, is to interrogate the emerging trends in the digital technologies using ethical tech framework. Doing this, we critically examined the calculatable and uncalculatable approaches to digital technologies by appealing to philosophical thinking (ontology, epistemology and technopolitical dynamics). The paper argues that there is a need to recognized the new life realities and, perhaps new world order that is imbued in the potentialities of digital technologies. We approached these pressing moral issues in the digital technologies through the lenses of philosophy of information. Authors concluded that ethical tech has more potential to understand the dynamics of new realities imbued in digital technologies; a tool to lead us out the impasse of technological determinism.