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Is Big Data the New “God” on Earth?

By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact

Surfing in the ocean. S. PILEGGI   This evening I sat down to reflect on some significant happenings in the…  Read More

Tags: Big DatagoogleInternetMarch 2016surfing

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Smart Toys that are the Stuff of Nightmares

By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles

At the top of some children’s Christmas present wish list in 2015 would have been the new Hello Barbie doll…  Read More

Tags: Hello BarbieMarch 2016Privacysmart toys

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Crafting an Ethical Global Society

By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Ethics, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact

At the 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS’15), SSIT was greatly honored with an opening address to…  Read More

Tags: ISTAS 2015KeynoteMarch 2016President Michael Higgins

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Militarized Zones: The Thinking Machine, the Occupying Machine, the Intensive Machine

By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact

Throughout history, technological advances have had significant effects on military command, control, and logistics. In turn, military establishments — and…  Read More

Tags: Cyberwarfaredigital militarismhuman-machine interactionsJune 2016UAVs

Sex Robot Matters: Slavery, the Prostituted, and the Rights of Machines

By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Ethics, Human Impacts, Societal Impact

Slavery is the coercive and controlled use of another human. Contrary to the belief that the practice ended in the…  Read More

Tags: anthropomorphismartificial intelligenceJune 2016pornographyrightssex robotslavery

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Uber Is Built on Trust

By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Ethics, Magazine Articles

Uber isn’t in the taxi business. It’s not really in the dispatch business, or even in the tech business. It’s…  Read More

Tags: June 2016trustUber

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Toyota: Not So Fast, Guys

By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Case Studies, Editorial & Opinion, Ethics, Magazine Articles

The automotive industry has furnished the field of engineering ethics with more than one “paradigm” case that generations of budding…  Read More

Tags: controversyJune 2016safetyToyotaunintended acceleration

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GM Ignition Switch Recall: Too Little Too Late?

By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Ethics, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact

How much stuff do you carry on your keyring? Besides keys, I mean. Some minimalists like my wife carry car…  Read More

Tags: accidentdefectiveGMignitionJune 2016legal aspectsrecall

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RFID Implant Developments: Where Are We Headed and Why?

By Sharon Rose Bradley-Munn on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact

From a feminist perspective, author Donna Haraway makes inference to a type of teleology within technology itself that displaces the…  Read More

Tags: implantJune 2016RFIDteleology

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When Smart Is Not: Technology and Michio Kaku’s The Future of the Mind

By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Leading Edge, Magazine Articles, Robotics, Societal Impact

In his new book, The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower Mind, theoretical physicist…  Read More

Tags: brain scienceJune 2016Robots

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Social Network Neutrality, Anyone?

By Guest Author on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact

Having recently relocated to a country where I know very few people, I tried looking for a local branch of…  Read More

Tags: FacebookInternetJune 2016net neutralitySocial Networks

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Marvin Minsky: 1927-2016

By Guest Author on June 29th, 2017 in Magazine Articles, Societal Impact

Minsky (left) was keynote speaker at ISTAS 2013 held at the University of Toronto, Canada. (Right: Steve Mann, ISTAS ’13…  Read More

Tags: consciousnessJune 2016Marvin Minskyobituary

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When Uber Cars Become Driverless: “They Won’t Need No Driver”

By Katina Michael on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Magazine Articles, Robotics, Societal Impact

I have long pondered the issue of dehumanization through automation. I think the old adage: “no one is irreplaceable” now…  Read More

Tags: 2001A Space Odysseyartificial intelligenceAutomationdehumanizationJune 2016

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Do We Just “Build Stuff”?

By Greg Adamson on June 29th, 2017 in Magazine Articles, President's Message, Societal Impact

Every day as engineers and technologists we go to work teaching, developing, building, implementing, maintaining technology. Do we care about…  Read More

Tags: communityjobsJune 2016

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Lost in Translation: Building a Common Language for Regulating Autonomous Weapons

By Marc Canellas on June 29th, 2017 in Magazine Articles, Robotics, Societal Impact

Autonomous weapons systems (AWS) are already here. Although some of the colloquial names for AWS may suggest science fiction (killer…  Read More

Tags: automatic weapon systemsregulationSeptember 2016

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An Ounce of Steel: Crucial Alignments

By Christine Perakslis on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact

In the early 1940s, why would ten American female basketball players in the heat of competition abruptly halt a match…  Read More

Tags: communitygreater goodISTAS 2015September 2016victory gardenwar effort

Women members of an agriculture group in Machakos, Kenya run a fish pond enterprise.

ICTs and Small Holder Farming

By Janet Achora on June 29th, 2017 in Communication Technology, Editorial & Opinion, Magazine Articles

Building on how the communications revolution could transform the lives of hundreds of millions of farmers in developing countries is…  Read More

Tags: agriculturedeveloping countriesICTskenyaSeptember 2016Social Networks

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Can We Trust For-Profit Corporations to Protect Our Privacy?

By Wilhelm Klein on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact

Can we trust for-profit corporations to protect our privacy? Are these compatible concepts and institutions? These are difficult questions to…  Read More

Tags: corporate social responsibilitycorporationsPrivacySeptember 2016snowden

Eight members of the “Internet Governance, Security, Privacy and the Ethical Dimension of ICTs in 2030” Panel at the 2016 WSIS Forum.

The Paradox of the Uberveillance Equation

By MG Michael on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Magazine Articles, Privacy & Security

Members of the “Internet Governance, Security, Privacy and the Ethical Dimension of ICTs in 2030” Panel at the 2016 WSIS…  Read More

Tags: PrivacySeptember 2016surveillanceuberveillance

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How Not to Network a Nation

By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Book Reviews, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact

The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet. By Benjamin Peters. M.I.T. Press, 2016, 312 pages. Reviewed by Loren Graham.  …  Read More

Tags: communismcyberneticshistoryinformation systemsRussiaSeptember 2016Soviet Internet

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