ABSTRACT
The Mount Carmel Declaration on Technology and Moral Responsibility is a noble expression of human aspiration, human hope, and human fear that has emerged from the worldwide debate on ethics in an age of pervasive technology. After expressing concern over "the threats to the welfare and survival of the human species . . . posed by improvident uses of applied science and technology," the declaration states ten theses, or guides to action. Their main thrust, with which I agree wholeheartedly, is that modern technologies, having within them unprecedented potential for conferring enormous good or inflicting global harm, must be dealt with responsibly. The declaration is an eloquent plan for social responsibility, first on the part of the technologist, but also on the part of the humanist, the man of affairs, and for that matter, the people themselves.
