Category: Human Impacts

The 13th IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech 2026) is designed to explore development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

The UN Environment Program has called the prevalence and use of lead “one of the biggest environmental catastrophes in human history.”

Mindell believes that we are on the cusp of an industrial change that will shape not only commerce and industry but also human subjectivity and behavior.

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) enables applications that enhance daily living and foster smooth technology integration into personal routines. The pervasive use of HAR also introduces ethical dilemmas that must be carefully navigated.

The highly dubious practice of “Fake It Till You Make It” resurfaced recently, as it has periodically throughout high-tech’s history, when it was exposed in scandals involving the diagnostics technology company Theranos and the cryptocurrency exchange FTX.

SSIT invites motivated and purpose-driven Young Professionals to volunteer as Committee team leaders and members of our Young Professionals (YP) Committee for the year 2026.

We remember the late Lindsay Robertson of New Zealand, a Senior Editor at the IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society.

Rather than reflexively accepting the need to cut budgets, services, and investment, let us take the time to critically examine the logic of austerity.

For over five decades, the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT) has been the professional home for people concerned with how technology impacts the world, and how the application of technology can improve the world.

Congratulations IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society! We’ve been included in Web of Science™. Articles published after 2023 will be included in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.

You can double SSIT’s good trouble when you make a gift now to the SSIT Technology for Humanity campaign before 2025 ends.

If we outsource decision-making to AI and spend all our time chatting with chatbots rather than with fellow humans, we are unlikely to develop the civic skills that we need for coordinated collective action.

Help us double SSIT’s good trouble – when you give now, our SSIT Technology for Humanity campaign match donor will double your donation!

The IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT) is pleased to announce that Dr. Kalyan Sen has been elected SSIT President-Elect for 2025–2026.

Donate to the 2025 SSIT Technology for Humanity Campaign

SASIGD 2026 brings together global innovators to advance Responsible and Sustainable AI across seven tracks

The 2026 International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS26) is set for October 14-16, 2026, in Kerala, India

Gisele Waters, SSIT Standards Committee Working Group Chair for IEEE P3119-2025, has been recognized with a 2025 Standards Award, the IEEE SA – Emerging Technology Award.

Digital enterprises have become increasingly monopolistic, individualistic beyond narcissistic to the point of lamentably solipsistic, devastatingly careless of human potential, and environmentally wasteful.

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