How should we approach the development of cyber-policy and -infrastructure given the “short arm” of predictive knowledge?

The good or bad of an action is wholly decided within a short-term context and its moral quality shines forth visible for witnesses to see. The short arm of human power does not call for a long arm predictive knowledge. The shortness of one is as little culpable another no one is held responsible for its unintended later effects of well-intentioned, well-considered, and well-performed act. Because the human good, generally, is the same for all time, its realization or violation takes place at each time, and its complete focus is always taken. Modern technology has introduced actions of such large scale, objects, and consequences that frameworks of former ethics can no longer contain. Since the collective action of doer, deed, and effect are no longer in one proximate sphere, the enormity of technology’s power forces upon ethics a new dimension of responsibility never seen before our age. The first major change inherited by new technology is the critical vulnerability of nature to man’s echo intervention. This discovery alters the concept of the people as a casual agency in the larger scheme of things. It has brought to light our attention that the nature of human action has changed, and that an object of new order has been added to the list of what we are responsible for due to our actions. Knowledge, under these circumstances, becomes a primary duty beyond anything we claimed to before, and the knowledge must commensurate with the casual scale of our action. Predictive knowledge falls behind our technical knowledge which nourished our need to act according to our findings and in itself consumes ethical importance. No previous ethics had to consider global conditions of human life and our future, even the existence of our race. This now being an issue draws questions to new concepts of duties and rights, which previous ethics could not even describe.