Technology has helped to improve my life in many ways. Talking products such as alarm clocks, thermometers, scales, caller ID,… Read More
Category: Human Impacts
Human by Design: An Ethical Framework for Human Augmentation
By Guest Author on June 29th, 2017 in Ethics, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
Rapid advances in science and technology are opening doors for the fulfillment of human desires in ways that were not… Read More
Children and Technology: Parent Guidelines for Every Age
By Guest Author on June 29th, 2017 in Health & Medical, Human Impacts, Leading Edge, Magazine Articles
What can parents do? Children need different rules at different ages of development. Here are some 3-6-9-12 Rules for the… Read More
Religion, Science, and Technology
By Katina Michael on June 29th, 2017 in Ethics, Human Impacts, Interview, Magazine Articles
An Interview with Metropolitan Kallistos Ware Born Timothy Ware in Bath, Somerset, England, Metropolitan Kallistos was educated at Westminster School… Read More
Human Microchipping, Past, Present, and … Future?
By Guest Author on June 29th, 2017 in Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Privacy & Security, Societal Impact
I sat staring at the computer on February 6th, 2006, thinking about the press release I was about to send… Read More
What if My Disability Will not be Relevant in the Future?
By Laszlo Lovaszy on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
On December 3, 2016, the world celebrated the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the… Read More
Ethical Imperatives for Veteran Healthcare Resources
By Guest Author on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Health & Medical, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles
Dear Editor, After receiving my discharge from the United States Marine Corps, the most deplorable fight of my life/career started…. Read More
Norbert Wiener and the Counter-Tradition to the Dream of Mastery
By Doug Hill on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
Wiener was far ahead of his time in recognizing that our habits of technology-fueled consumption pose significant threats to health and the environment. He predicted that within the foreseeable future we would be facing growing coal and gas shortages, growing scarcity of water with which to supply our cities, growing rates of infection due to increased air travel and antibiotic resistance, growing problems related to processed and synthetic foods, growing risks of nuclear power accidents, and growing risks of nuclear war.
Norbert Wiener: Odd Man Ahead
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
My childhood memories of Norbert Wiener are of a strange looking person who came repeatedly from his New Hampshire home… Read More
21CW: Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
In this issue of IEEE Technology and Society Magazine we acknowledge one of the quintessential multi-disciplinarians of our time, Dr…. Read More
A Conversation with Lazar Puhalo
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Human Impacts, Interview, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
In December 17, 2014, T&S Editor-in-Chief Katina Michael interviewed Archbishop of Ottawa (Ret.) Lazar Puhalo, of the Orthodox Church in… Read More
Creating The Norbert Wiener Media Project
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
Mary Catherine Bateson in an interview from the 2014 Norbert Wiener Conference in Boston. In the early part of… Read More
Automatic Tyranny, Re-Theism ,and the Rise of the Reals
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
“So will computers be smarter than humans? It depends on what you consider to be a computer and what you… Read More
Digitus Secundus: The Swipe
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
As 2015 marked the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Holocaust concentration camps, I downloaded an audio recording of… Read More
Held Captive in the Cyberworld
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Fiction, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
At breakfast the next morning, Phi disclosed, “You know, Psi, I’m sick of this country. Let’s head on back home… Read More
Pharmaco-Electronics Emerge
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Health & Medical, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles
Meteoric progress in sensor, computer, and telecommunication technology has catapulted healthcare into the realm of pharmaco-electronic medicine, where increasingly we… Read More
Multimedia and Gaming Technologies for Telerehabilitation of Motor Disabilities
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Health & Medical, Human Impacts, Leading Edge, Magazine Articles
Rehabilitation for chronic conditions resulting from acute or progressive disease might be delivered in an outpatient facility as in the… Read More
Mental Health, Implantables, and Side Effects
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Health & Medical, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles
When I was 8 years of age my older sister who was 8 years my senior was diagnosed with paranoid… Read More
Speed Isn’t Enough: Usability and Adoption of an Optimized Alert Notification System
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Communication Technology, Human Impacts, Societal Impact
In the wake of crisis situations that can bring tragedy through the loss of human life, or the devastating destruction… Read More
Smart Toys that are the Stuff of Nightmares
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles
At the top of some children’s Christmas present wish list in 2015 would have been the new Hello Barbie doll… Read More