Category: Editorial & Opinion

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

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

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

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? Are these compatible concepts and institutions? These are difficult questions to…  Read More

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

Figure 1. Bus drivers across the West Midlands were equipped with mini DNA kits in 2012 to help police track…  Read More

It appears that humanity’s great challenge for this century is to extend cooperative human values and institutions to autonomous technology…  Read More

The desire to create a sentient Artificial Intelligence (Al) as complex as a human intelligence, or one that even surpasses…  Read More

Where does wearable technology exist? The question is more complex than it might first appear, when one considers the thin…  Read More

The Paradox of Technological Potential – Part II In November 2015, as editors, we started sorting through submissions for a…  Read More

When Fantasy Turns into Obsession Craig is a banker from Iowa who became addicted to adult chat rooms. He explained,…  Read More

On the 9th of December in 2015, I set out for a camping trip with my three young children to…  Read More

The introduction and announcement of Google Glass on April 4, 2012, changed the landscape of computing for the everyday person….  Read More

I have often wondered what it would be like to rid myself of a keyboard for data entry, and a…  Read More

“Security” is a Latin word which means “without care,” from the Latin prefix “Se” (meaning “without”) and “curity” meaning “care.”…  Read More

A secure crib and a baby monitor are on the “must-have” safety checklist for many new parents. But when you…  Read More

Dear Drs. Albrecht and Michael, I recently came across your Editorial titled: “We’ve Got to do Better” [1] and felt…  Read More

George Orwell once observed that “the ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will tend…  Read More

Each year, thousands of film buffs gather at the Sundance International Film Festival in Park City, UT, U.S.A., to see…  Read More