ABSTRACT
Societies across the globe have advanced because of the efficient and reliable technologies designed to solve problems or specific practical issues. Social work practice is immersed in these technologies. So, we need to pay critical attention at the micro and macro level to the ongoing and changing effects of technology, impacting the nature of everyone’s lived experience. Technologies can be things, instrumental objects, like computers or automobiles, or processes/programs like software programs or internet interaction apps, sites, and applications. Technology provides valuable health care options, social options, and our existence in the world. It takes knowledge from science/practical skills and uses it to improve the application of social functions, like communication, transportation, and health. The ethical focus is: whether it is value-neutral, whether it is politically/legally controlled by government or others to exercise power over us or empower us, liberating our open, expressive possibilities or alienating us from them, whether technology changes itself or because of external influences, remains true to its original instrument purpose which effects our concerns for equality, confidentiality, personal integrity, and privacy. We consider positive and negative aspects impacting, influencing, and transforming social work practice everywhere.
