Research Issues Concerning Ethics and the Internet: How can We Live Well in Cyberspace?

In cyberspace humankind is creating a new world. Telecommunications, computers, the Internet, and its vibrant offspring, E-commerce—all parts of the vaunted National Information Infrastructure, NII—are among the latest of a long line of information technologies that are changing the way people relate to one another, the ways they communicate, live, work, do business, and entertain themselves. Novelist William Gibson coined the term “cyberspace,” in Neuromancer, to describe the virtual, digital world these technologies have made possible. He also sought to distinguish this new electronic bit realm from a physical world characterized by atoms and more traditional relationships [1].

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