Category: Editorial & Opinion

“Resistance is futile” is a catchphrase that has become synonymous with the adoption of new technologies [1]. The idea was…  Read More

As 2015 marked the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Holocaust concentration camps, I downloaded an audio recording of…  Read More

We are living in an age of information. Staggering amounts of information are collected, stored, and widely disseminated. Yet, we…  Read More

Blockchains are a new form of information technology that could have several important future applications. One is blockchain thinking, formulating…  Read More

Meteoric progress in sensor, computer, and telecommunication technology has catapulted healthcare into the realm of pharmaco-electronic medicine, where increasingly we…  Read More

Shakespeare has a lot to say about social media and social networks. In a quick review of the literature, we…  Read More

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