Peter Singer, Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, is Founder of the nonprofit organization The Life You Can Save. His books include
Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, The Ethics of What We Eat (with Jim Mason), Rethinking Life and Death, The Point of View of the Universe, co-authored with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, The Most Good You Can Do, Famine, Affluence, and Morality, One World Now, Ethics in the Real World, Why Vegan?, and Utilitarianism: A Very Short Introduction, also with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek. In April 2021, W.W. Norton published his new edition of Apuleius’s The Golden Ass. In 2013, he was named the world's third "most influential contemporary thinker" by the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute.
普林斯顿—五十年前,马丁·路德·金提出了一个美国梦,有一天,美国所有公民,不论黑人白人,都能得到平等。如今,Facebook创始人马克·扎克伯格也有一个梦:他想向世界五十亿不能上网的人提供互联网接入。
扎克伯格的愿景听起来像是让Facebook拥有更多用户的自利举动。但当今世界面临着越来越大的技术差异,这一差异对平等、自由和追求幸福的权利所形成的影响不亚于金所针对的种族差异。
放眼全球,二十多亿人生活在数字时代。他们可以接入广袤无垠的信息世界,以极低甚至零成本与朋友和家人通信,与其他他们需要合作的人联系。其他五十亿人仍生活在我们这一代人生长其中的纸时代。
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