[a:Shannon Vallor|14262488|Shannon Vallor|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] argues that we desperately need to dedicate ourselves to cultivating and propagating a set of human virtues appropriate to our rapidly-changing technological era, so that we can preserve the hope of a future worth living.

Vallor believes that “virtue ethics” offers the best framework to work from, as other frameworks (Kantian/deontological or utilitarian/consequentialist) do not function well in situations of rapid change and what she calls “acute technosocial opacity”.

Vallor reviews the history and current revival of virtue ethics, concentrating in particular on [a:Aristotle|2192|Aristotle|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1390143800p2/2192.jpg]’s [b:Nicomachean Ethics|19068|The Nicomachean Ethics|Aristotle|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1520339295l/19068.SY75.jpg|2919427], Confucian ethics, and Buddhist ethics. She examines the methods those traditions advise us to use for moral self-cultivation. And she describes a system of moral foundations and a set of particular virtues that she thinks will serve us well in our technological age.

She then uses her proposed framework to suggest approaches to some pressing “technomoral” issues: social media, panoptic surveillance, military robotics, care robotics, and human enhancement technology.