our guests are james wilson and matthew bottom.e were talking about civilization and where it exists. there are civilizations that have exploded onto the world wide web and that is where people seem to be living. can you explain to us your institute as a think tank for cyber ethics? >> the state computer --. we are 40 years into the personal computer revolution. it has brought sociological changes it has altered every profession. and i don't getting enough actual philosophical analysis of what that means. we keep seeing ethical problems emerging as a result of our connectivity and being reduced to numbers and data. and emerging from the fact that inner-city kids now are spending an average of 14-16 hours per day staring at a screen. these are created from addiction. we are creating problems of lack of contact with reality. and i want to use this new institute to explore what it would mean to say something at the most serious level like the virtual is not the real. >> it seems to me that your biggest thing about touching the permane

our guest are james matthew wilson and joseph bottom. we're talking about civilization where you mentioned civilizations are percolating beneath and couldn't be visible sometimes. that's where people seemed to be living. can you explain to us your institute for cyber ethics? >> yeah, the state's computer college told me to start up a little and do cyber ethics and apply the humanities to which we are now 40 years again. we're 40 years into the computer revolution. >> it's altered every profession and i don't think we're getting enough actual analysis of what that means. in particular, we keep seeing ethnical problems emerging as a result of productivity and emerging as a result of being reduced to numbers and data. you know, emerging from the fact that inner city kids are spending on average of 14 to 16 hours a day staring at the screen. these are creating problems of addiction, problems of lack of contact with reality and i want to kind of use this new institute to explore what it would mean to say something about the most serious level