The advent of the information revolution has led to the digitalization of society, affecting virtually all of its concerns. The… Read More
Category: Magazine Articles
Influential Engineers: Where Do They Come From and Where Do They Go?
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
The objective of this study is to examine the intercontinental movement of highly cited researchers (HCRs) in the field of… Read More
Videoconferencing for Civil Commitment: Preserving Dignity
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Ethics, Health & Medical, Leading Edge, Magazine Articles, Privacy & Security
Civil commitment (i.e., civil involuntary hospitalization and treatment) is sometimes necessary to treat some psychiatric patients, especially those believed… Read More
Snowden’s Lessons for Whistleblowers
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Commentary, Magazine Articles, Privacy & Security, Societal Impact
In June 2013, Edward Snowden burst onto the world media scene. He had worked as a contractor for the U.S…. 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
Perfecting Sound
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Book Reviews, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
Perfecting Sound Forever-An Aural History of Recorded Music. By Greg Milner. New York, NY: Faber and Faber, Inc., 2009, 416… Read More
America’s Assembly Line
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Book Reviews, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
By David E. Nye. Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press, 2013, 338 pages Reviewed by David Wunsch If I asked you to… Read More
Rise of the Robots
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Book Reviews, Magazine Articles, Robotics, Societal Impact
Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future. By Martin Ford. Basic Books, 2015, 224 pp…. Read More
The Cybernetics Movement
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Book Reviews, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
The Cybernetics Moment, Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age. By Ronald R. Kline. Johns Hopkins University Press,… Read More
Military Robots: Mapping the Moral Landscape
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Book Reviews, Magazine Articles, Robotics, Societal Impact
By Jai Galliott. Surrey, U.K.: Ashgate, 2015, 266 pp. Reviewed by Tim McFarland Perhaps the most well-known, and controversial, development… Read More
Digital Militarism
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Book Reviews, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
Digital Militarism: Israel’s Occupation in the Social Media Age. By Adi Kuntsman and Rebecca L. Stein. Stanford University Press, 2015,$21.95… Read More
FM Power to the People
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Book Reviews, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
Low Power to the People: Pirates, Protest, and Politics in FM Radio Activism. By Christina Dunbar-Hester. Cambridge, MA: M.I.T., Nov…. Read More
Probing the Sky
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Book Reviews, Communication Technology, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
Probing the Sky with Radio Waves: From Wireless Technology to the Development of Atmospheric Science. By Chen-Pang Yeang. Chicago, IL:… Read More
Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Creating the Digital Revolution
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Book Reviews, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution. By Walter Isaacson. Simon and Schuster,… Read More
Faxed: The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Book Reviews, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
By Jonathan Coopersmith, Johns Hopkins University Press. 320 pages, 2015 Reviewed by Erik L. Stayton I have never had… 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
Alan Turing: The Enigma
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Book Reviews, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game. By Andrew Hodges. Updated Edition. Princeton Univ. Press, 2014. Reviewed by… Read More
Lost in Translation – Building a Common Language for Regulating Autonomous Weapons
By terribookman on October 13th, 2016 in Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
by Marc Canellas and Rachel Haga Autonomous weapons systems (AWS) are already here. Although some of the colloquial names for… Read More