Category: Editorial & Opinion

September 27, 2015 Dear Prof. Turkle, I agree with the premise in your Sept. 26, 2015 New York Times Opinion…  Read More

Figure 1. Concept map of IEEE Technology and Society Magazine article headings (March 2010–July 2015) generated using Leximancer.    …  Read More

When I was 8 years of age my older sister who was 8 years my senior was diagnosed with paranoid…  Read More

Figure 1. Privacy concerns arise for individuals when there is a high expectation of control over information pertaining to them…  Read More

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

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

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

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

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

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

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