Category: Human Impacts

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

In the wake of crisis situations that can bring tragedy through the loss of human life, or the devastating destruction…  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

Slavery is the coercive and controlled use of another human. Contrary to the belief that the practice ended in the…  Read More

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

Where does wearable technology exist? The question is more complex than it might first appear, when one considers the thin…  Read More

When Fantasy Turns into Obsession Craig is a banker from Iowa who became addicted to adult chat rooms. He explained,…  Read More

On the 9th of December in 2015, I set out for a camping trip with my three young children to…  Read More

The introduction and announcement of Google Glass on April 4, 2012, changed the landscape of computing for the everyday person….  Read More

I have often wondered what it would be like to rid myself of a keyboard for data entry, and a…  Read More

George Orwell once observed that “the ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will tend…  Read More

When Cecilia Abadie — a Google Glass “explorer” testing out the new device — received the first ever traffic ticket…  Read More

Each year, thousands of film buffs gather at the Sundance International Film Festival in Park City, UT, U.S.A., to see…  Read More

Social media, driven by the explosive uptake of mobile computing, has caused a systematic shift in the structure of personal…  Read More

Technological innovation over the past century has revolutionized our society’s ability to solve problems. A byproduct of this movement is…  Read More

Social capital has been defined by Ostrom and Ahn [1] as “an attribute of individuals that enhances their ability to…  Read More

The Power of Talk in a Digital Age. By Sherry Turkle, Pengiun, 2015. Writing in 1930, the German cultural critic…  Read More

Technologists are problem solvers. We work out answers to questions (sometimes simple, sometimes difficult), and apply these to the world….  Read More

I’m preparing a course for this Fall on the future, and pursuing a number of related books that will no…  Read More