When I was 8 years of age my older sister who was 8 years my senior was diagnosed with paranoid… Read More
Category: Human Impacts
Speed Isn’t Enough: Usability and Adoption of an Optimized Alert Notification System
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Communication Technology, Human Impacts, Societal Impact
In the wake of crisis situations that can bring tragedy through the loss of human life, or the devastating destruction… Read More
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
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
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
Updating a Declaration
By John Havens on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Ethics, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles
It appears that humanity’s great challenge for this century is to extend cooperative human values and institutions to autonomous technology… Read More
Mediating the Body: Wearable Tech and Disembodied Reality
By Rebecca Ricks on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Ethics, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles
Where does wearable technology exist? The question is more complex than it might first appear, when one considers the thin… Read More
Help for Cybersex Addicts and Their Loved Ones
By Kimberly Young on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Health & Medical, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles
When Fantasy Turns into Obsession Craig is a banker from Iowa who became addicted to adult chat rooms. He explained,… Read More
Gone Fishing: Breaking with the Biometric Rhythm of Tech-Centricism
By Katina Michael on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles
On the 9th of December in 2015, I set out for a camping trip with my three young children to… Read More
Are Wearables Really Ready to Wear?
By Isabel Pedersen on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles
The introduction and announcement of Google Glass on April 4, 2012, changed the landscape of computing for the everyday person…. Read More
Beyond Human: Lifelogging and Life Extension
By Katina Michael on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Ethics, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Robotics
I have often wondered what it would be like to rid myself of a keyboard for data entry, and a… Read More
Personal Rights in the Age of Omnipresent Cameras
By jstanley@aclu.org on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Privacy & Security
George Orwell once observed that “the ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will tend… Read More
Google Glass and Highway Safety — Messy Choices
By Robert Rosenberger on June 29th, 2017 in Human Impacts, Leading Edge, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
When Cecilia Abadie — a Google Glass “explorer” testing out the new device — received the first ever traffic ticket… Read More
We’ve Got to Do Better
By Katina Michael on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Social Implications of Technology, Societal Impact
Each year, thousands of film buffs gather at the Sundance International Film Festival in Park City, UT, U.S.A., to see… Read More
Geosocial Intelligence
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Communication Technology, Human Impacts, Leading Edge, Magazine Articles, Social Implications of Technology
Social media, driven by the explosive uptake of mobile computing, has caused a systematic shift in the structure of personal… Read More
Appropriate Technologies in the Globalized World: FAQs
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Commentary, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Social Implications of Technology, Societal Impact
Technological innovation over the past century has revolutionized our society’s ability to solve problems. A byproduct of this movement is… Read More
The Reinvention of Social Capital for Socio-Technical Systems
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Communication Technology, Editorial & Opinion, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles
Social capital has been defined by Ostrom and Ahn [1] as “an attribute of individuals that enhances their ability to… Read More
Reclaiming Conversation
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Book Reviews, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles
The Power of Talk in a Digital Age. By Sherry Turkle, Pengiun, 2015. Writing in 1930, the German cultural critic… Read More
Deterministic and Statistical Worlds
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Ethics, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, President's Message
Technologists are problem solvers. We work out answers to questions (sometimes simple, sometimes difficult), and apply these to the world…. Read More
A Not-So-Flat World – Friedman 2.0
By Jim Isaak on June 7th, 2017 in Articles, Human Impacts, Societal Impact
I’m preparing a course for this Fall on the future, and pursuing a number of related books that will no… Read More