[whistlerbrk]

I think it runs a bit deeper than "Silicon Valley" which makes for a nice headline and is the new scape goat. My opinion:

1. computer science has an ethics problem due to the lack of modernization of and membership in professional societies like the ACM.

2. Technology moves so fast that the ethical dilemmas created by it aren't explored and debated quickly enough, nor are the long term impacts able to be understood in time.

3. We fail to learn from our history and our own writings. Seriously, science fiction writers of the 60s and 70s have explored so many issues we grapple with today in such incredible detail yet we haven't synthesized this beyond Asimov's laws.