ABSTRACT
The connection between justice and technology seems to be very much at the center of public attention. In the United States the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has gone to court to force Apple to unlock the iPhone of a terrorist. Apple in reply filed a motion to vacate the court's order that Apple comply. But then technology passed justice. The FBI found a way to unlock the phone and dropped the case against Apple. Up until the mid-1970s, there was no active and well-ordered philosophy of technology in the Anglophone world. The prevailing view of technology surfaces when a prominent person—a politician, a business person, an artist—is asked about the impact of technology. The great contemporary monument of ideal justice is Rawls's magisterial A Theory of Justice. Justice becomes shallow when the administration of justice escapes the competence and comprehension of the citizenry and is taken over by a machinery.
