Author: Jim Isaak

It can be easy to explore the dark side of technology while not highlighting the benefits. But over the past…  Read More

Web artificial intelligence (AI) evolution is driven, in part, by the evolution of the web. Daniel Dennett, in his recent…  Read More

By web evolution I’m not talking Internet 4.0, I’m talking Darwinian survival. In the Darwinian model, evolution requires three things:…  Read More

Where did the privacy slippery slope begin? Or perhaps asking the question with more focus, when did we start trading…  Read More

We may be passing a tipping point in the area of individualized marketing/advertising. This has surfaced as the U.S. Federal…  Read More

A Guest Blog Post from: Victoria A. Hailey, CMC & Katherine Bennett, (standards development leaders in IEEE). On 28 September 2017,…  Read More

Recent research indicates that pollution (air, water, …) is a major killer on a global basis. That pollution kills is…  Read More

Periodically, often after a unconscionable massacre such as Las Vegas or Orlando, the United States reviews the balance between the…  Read More

Consider the fairly typical residence in this picture from Mfuwe, Zambia. This site has external sanitation facilities, a wood cook…  Read More

Which came first: technology or society? Did the formation of social collaboration among early humanoids precede the first “technological” advances (fire, stone tools, etc.), or did these technologies form the catalyst for building more complex social structures?

All web sites such as this, that permit feedback, comments, etc., get some amount of “SPAM” (with apologies to Hormel)…  Read More

I’m preparing a course for this Fall on the future, and pursuing a number of related books that will no…  Read More

This new book, Irresistible: the Rise of Addictive Technology, points to a challenge that may be hitting a tipping point:…  Read More

The U.S. government recently announced sanctions targeting Syrian scientists (and no doubt engineers; newspapers are not clear on the differences)….  Read More

United Airlines has been having it’s problems since recently ejecting a passenger to facilitate crew members getting to their next…  Read More

Presumably we will reach a tipping point when Intelligent Devices surpass humans in many key areas, quite possibly without our…  Read More

A recent anthology of “climate fiction,” Loosed Upon the World, projects climate change forward some years into dystopian scenarios. The editor,…  Read More

VIZIO is reportedly paying fines for using TVs to track user’s viewing patterns in significant detail as well as associating…  Read More

London haptic researchers have developed a device to add to a cell phone that will allow remote persons kiss, as…  Read More

It should be noted that an early, if not first, instance of an online physical attack on a person has…  Read More