I have long pondered the issue of dehumanization through automation. I think the old adage: “no one is irreplaceable” now… Read More
Category: Social Implications of Technology
Do We Just “Build Stuff”?
By Greg Adamson on June 29th, 2017 in Magazine Articles, President's Message, Societal Impact
Every day as engineers and technologists we go to work teaching, developing, building, implementing, maintaining technology. Do we care about… Read More
Lost in Translation: Building a Common Language for Regulating Autonomous Weapons
By Marc Canellas on June 29th, 2017 in Magazine Articles, Robotics, Societal Impact
Autonomous weapons systems (AWS) are already here. Although some of the colloquial names for AWS may suggest science fiction (killer… Read More
An Ounce of Steel: Crucial Alignments
By Christine Perakslis on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
In the early 1940s, why would ten American female basketball players in the heat of competition abruptly halt a match… Read More
ICTs and Small Holder Farming
By Janet Achora on June 29th, 2017 in Communication Technology, Editorial & Opinion, Magazine Articles
Building on how the communications revolution could transform the lives of hundreds of millions of farmers in developing countries is… Read More
Can We Trust For-Profit Corporations to Protect Our Privacy?
By Wilhelm Klein on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
Can we trust for-profit corporations to protect our privacy? Are these compatible concepts and institutions? These are difficult questions to… Read More
The Paradox of the Uberveillance Equation
By MG Michael on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Magazine Articles, Privacy & Security
Members of the “Internet Governance, Security, Privacy and the Ethical Dimension of ICTs in 2030” Panel at the 2016 WSIS… Read More
How Not to Network a Nation
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Book Reviews, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet. By Benjamin Peters. M.I.T. Press, 2016, 312 pages. Reviewed by Loren Graham. … Read More
Is Ethics an Emerging Property?
By Greg Adamson on June 29th, 2017 in Ethics, Magazine Articles, President's Message, Societal Impact
“Can we program ethics into Artificial Intelligence?” was the topic of a keynote panel initiated by SSIT at the July… Read More
Updating a Declaration
By John Havens on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Ethics, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles
It appears that humanity’s great challenge for this century is to extend cooperative human values and institutions to autonomous technology… Read More
Crossing the Evolutionary Gap
By Joe Carvalko on June 29th, 2017 in Ethics, Fiction, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible. — Ray… Read More
Home Is Where the AI Heart Is
By Isabel Pedersen on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Ethics, Magazine Articles, Robotics
The desire to create a sentient Artificial Intelligence (Al) as complex as a human intelligence, or one that even surpasses… Read More
Mediating the Body: Wearable Tech and Disembodied Reality
By Rebecca Ricks on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Ethics, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles
Where does wearable technology exist? The question is more complex than it might first appear, when one considers the thin… Read More
Unintended Consequences of Living with AI
By Ramona Pringle on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
The Paradox of Technological Potential – Part II In November 2015, as editors, we started sorting through submissions for a… Read More
Help for Cybersex Addicts and Their Loved Ones
By Kimberly Young on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Health & Medical, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles
When Fantasy Turns into Obsession Craig is a banker from Iowa who became addicted to adult chat rooms. He explained,… Read More
Gone Fishing: Breaking with the Biometric Rhythm of Tech-Centricism
By Katina Michael on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles
On the 9th of December in 2015, I set out for a camping trip with my three young children to… Read More
Love, Philosophy, and Processors: Interview with a Robot
By Ramona Pringle on June 29th, 2017 in Interview, Magazine Articles, Robotics, Societal Impact
The robot Bina48 is funny, and melancholy, and at times, uncannily profound. Like a human, she is complicated and contradictory,… Read More
Are Wearables Really Ready to Wear?
By Isabel Pedersen on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles
The introduction and announcement of Google Glass on April 4, 2012, changed the landscape of computing for the everyday person…. Read More
The Police Crisis of Visibility
By Guest Author on June 29th, 2017 in Magazine Articles, Privacy & Security, Societal Impact
A rugged male Metro Toronto police officer stares down a female protester outside the Toronto G-20 meetings in 2010. She… Read More
Beyond Human: Lifelogging and Life Extension
By Katina Michael on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Ethics, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Robotics
I have often wondered what it would be like to rid myself of a keyboard for data entry, and a… Read More