ABSTRACT
While most of the scholars at the symposium thought the problem lay in controlling technology, or at least in controlling technologists, Mario Bunge turned the issue around. Bunge, professor of philosophy at McGill University, claimed that the scale and complexity of modern technological impacts requires that experts be in charge of social action—although they must be answerable to the public. Technologists, instead of being shackled by others, must tackle their own moral problems and take a hand in overhauling ethics. Bunge equates rational morality with technological efficiency. His goal is to construct a "technoethics" as the science of moral and efficient conduct.
