Category: Social Implications of Technology

A new archive of material added a new historical dimension to our discussions of cybernetics at the 2016 Norbert Wiener Conference in Australia.

Arthur Winston addressed to attendees of the 2016 IEEE Conference on Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century, Melbourne, Australia, held…  Read More

Graeme Clark is the inventor of the cochlear implant. He was the dinner Keynote Speaker at the 2016 Conference on…  Read More

Many stroke survivors retain some degree of paralysis and thus have limited use of their body. According to published surveys,…  Read More

The future as depicted in works of science fiction, especially of the multiplex variety, is almost uniformly dystopian. The bleakness…  Read More

What are your values? I’m asking you, the reader. As a quick exercise, try to write down ten values you…  Read More

In the context of the IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems, and with support…  Read More

At the IEEE 2016 Conference on Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century, held in Melbourne, Australia, July 13–15, 2016, Keith…  Read More

Responsibilities of Scientists and Engineers in Times of Chaos and Upheaval If the future is coming at an ever accelerating…  Read More

Not So Fast: Thinking Twice about Technology. By Doug Hill. Univ. of Georgia Press, Oct. 15, 2016, 240 pp. In…  Read More

Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism. By Judy Wajcman. Chicago, IL: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2015,…  Read More

By Christopher Cooper. New York: Race Point Publishers, 2015, 195 pages. Ask a “twentysornething” or “millennial” A what the word…  Read More

Norbert Wiener and the Call for Ethical Engagement Over the last century, the greatest acceleration of technological development has come…  Read More

Dear Editor, Katina Michael, in “Gone Fishing: Breaking with the Biometric Rhythm of Tech-Centricism” (IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, Dec….  Read More

A bot (short for robot) performs highly repetitive tasks by automatically gathering or posting information based on a set of…  Read More

Pillar 1: Sustainable Development and Humanitarian Technology IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology volunteers are making significant progress in…  Read More

All web sites such as this, that permit feedback, comments, etc., get some amount of “SPAM” (with apologies to Hormel)…  Read More

During the last century a variety of surveillance technologies have arrived, have been deployed, and have had impacts on society,…  Read More

Within the next decade, reactive medical practices will evolve into what has been popularly coined “P4” medicine — predictive, preventive,…  Read More

This piece briefly outlines the legal implications of surveillance, sousveillance, and “whistle-blowing” in a German human rights context. For the…  Read More