Category: Human Impacts

Growing use of software applications in the home, the workplace, and in public places has resulted in increased production and…  Read More

To the Editor: [of the IEEE Reflector] In the beginning of June of this year I became aware that the…  Read More

The comments of Dr. Michael Eldred below, dated Sept. 27, 2014, were received in response to the IQ2 “Big Ideas”…  Read More

Click HERE to watch video of this performance, including visual elements.  This performance art piece was delivered by Katina Michael…  Read More

Figure 1. Designers Erik Addison, Luke Morey, and Grant Parrinello (not affiliated with this research) developed a marketing campaign for a…  Read More

Through wearables, bearables, and the Internet of Things, my neighbor with diabetes is eating healthier and losing weight; he is…  Read More

Contrarian computer scientist Jaron Lanier writes, “If you observe humans using computer programs that are designated to be “smart,” you…  Read More

At the IQ2 Debate, asking, are we becoming enslaved by technology? [1], the negative side (the side that was cheerleading…  Read More

My friend Rich was 25 years old when he buried his 20-year old father. His dad, a green beret, was…  Read More

Technology has helped to improve my life in many ways. Talking products such as alarm clocks, thermometers, scales, caller ID,…  Read More

Rapid advances in science and technology are opening doors for the fulfillment of human desires in ways that were not…  Read More

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

An Interview with Metropolitan Kallistos Ware Born Timothy Ware in Bath, Somerset, England, Metropolitan Kallistos was educated at Westminster School…  Read More

I sat staring at the computer on February 6th, 2006, thinking about the press release I was about to send…  Read More

On December 3, 2016, the world celebrated the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the…  Read More

Dear Editor, After receiving my discharge from the United States Marine Corps, the most deplorable fight of my life/career started….  Read More

My childhood memories of Norbert Wiener are of a strange looking person who came repeatedly from his New Hampshire home…  Read More

In this issue of IEEE Technology and Society Magazine we acknowledge one of the quintessential multi-disciplinarians of our time, Dr….  Read More

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

Mary Catherine Bateson in an interview from the 2014 Norbert Wiener Conference in Boston.   In the early part of…  Read More