Research On The Technology Ethics In William Gibson's Cyberpunk Novels

Since the 20 th century,a series of high-tech technologies such as information technology,biotechnology,and space technology have made breakthroughs.They seek benefits for human beings and pose threats and challenges for human life.Therefore,the disciplines of ecological ethics and bioethics have also developed by leaps and bounds.The purpose and task are to intervene and correct some moral and ethical issues in the process of technological development,to ensure that the development of technology is people-oriented and benefit people.Gibson's cyberpunk novels lead readers to explore new areas of imagination with rich imagination and touching plots,and explore the ethical crisis brought about by technology in the post-human era.This thesis selects science and technology ethics as the starting point,and systematically studies the science and technology ethics in Gibson's cyberpunk novels from three aspects: environmental ethics,virtual information ethics and bioethics.The introduction part explains the application background of Gibson's cyberpunk novels and thesis theory.The first section gives a brief introduction to Gibson's life and works.The second section discusses the research status of Gibson's works at home and abroad.The third section combs the theory and method of this topic.The fourth section presents the difficulties and innovations of the paper.The first chapter shows the environmental ethics crisis in Gibson's novels,which is embodied in the natural loss and the deteriorating urban ecology.Humans use modern technology to replicate "nature" and present a "super-real" nature that is more real than the true nature,creating the illusion that people and nature live in harmony.This chapter will mainly explain Baudrillard's simulation theory to the nature of "imitation" in Gibson's novels.The second chapter discusses the virtual information crisis in Gibson's novels.It first manifests itself in the blurring of the boundaries between physical space and virtual space,and the transcendence of cyber moral space.Secondly,in the high-techera,the company's total power replaced the government's total power,and people were constantly monitored and controlled by data,forming a super-common prison in the post-human era.Super Panorama Prison is a new power technology or ruling mode that Post puts out from Foucault's discourse concept and combines the characteristics of computer database with information mode.The Super Panorama Prison dismantled the boundaries between private and public activities,reconstructed individual identities,and strengthened the authority's rule over the people.The third chapter discusses the bioethical crisis in Gibson's novels.The body aesthetics of the post-human era is based on cyborg.However,cyborg means the reshaping and rebellion of identity,gender,class and other forms of identity,which are manifested in the pleasure of leaving the body and the uncertainty of the body.And gender uncertainty.The rapid development of technology involves a series of ontological problems.The dependence on technology will lead to the loss of human subjectivity,and people will be instrumented and even symbolized by technology.When cybrogs built their own identities,they discovered the fragmentation,rheology and uncertainty of their own identity,and thus fell into the predicament of identity construction.The analysis of Gibson's cyberpunk novels from the perspective of science and technology ethics not only broadens the research perspective of Gibson's works,but also is an important means of combining humanistic care and problem consciousness in the novel with the real society,highlighting the reality of Gibson's novel research.Significance will also be instructive for the study of other science fiction novels.