Category: Human Impacts

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

The issue of how video games or movies affect behavior is a recurrent topic in academic and  public discourse.