At the 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS’15), SSIT was greatly honored with an opening address to… Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Can Good Standards Propel Unethical Technologies?
By Katina Michael on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion
Figure 1. Bus drivers across the West Midlands were equipped with mini DNA kits in 2012 to help police track… Read More
Is Ethics an Emerging Property?
By Greg Adamson on June 29th, 2017 in Ethics, Magazine Articles, President's Message, Societal Impact
“Can we program ethics into Artificial Intelligence?” was the topic of a keynote panel initiated by SSIT at the July… Read More