Technology, Progress and Ethics

Romano Guardini

Man and Technique (1925)
Letters from lake Como, from the letter IX.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Physics in the Contemporary World (1948)
J. R. Oppenheimer, Physics in the Contemporary World, 1948.

Robert Andrew Millikan

The Two Supreme Elements in Human Progress (1950)
Engineering and Science, Caltech Institute,1950

Max Born

Physics in my Generation (1951)
From the postscript to The Restless Univers

Albert Einstein

The Russell-Einstein Manifesto (1955)
B. Russell, J. Rotblat, Manifesto Press Conference, 9 July 1955

Hans Jonas

The Meaning of the Scientific and Technological Revolution (1971)
Philosophical Essays, 1980
Technology and Responsibility: Reflections on the New Tasks of Ethics (1972)
Philosophical Essays, 1980

Union of Concerned Scientists

World Scientists' Warning to Humanity (1992)
World Scientists' Warning to Humanity

Jurgen Mittelstrass

Ethics in Science - Substance or Rhetoric? (1995)
Revolutionary Changes in Understanding Man and Society

David F. Noble

The Ascent of the Saints: Space Exploration (1997)
The Religion of Technology, 1997

Peter Harrison

Why Science will not destroy Religion (2017)
Aeon, September 7, 2017