Category: Social Implications of Technology

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 robot Bina48 is funny, and melancholy, and at times, uncannily profound. Like a human, she is complicated and contradictory,…  Read More

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

A rugged male Metro Toronto police officer stares down a female protester outside the Toronto G-20 meetings in 2010. She…  Read More

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

“Security” is a Latin word which means “without care,” from the Latin prefix “Se” (meaning “without”) and “curity” meaning “care.”…  Read More

A secure crib and a baby monitor are on the “must-have” safety checklist for many new parents. But when you…  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

Anecdotally, most people know that the video technology they use in everyday life is changing at an alarmingly fast pace….  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

By Ahmed S. Khan. CRC Press (Taylor & Francis), 2012. Reviewed by Karl D. Stephan   Anyone who doesn’t know…  Read More

By W. Bernard Carlson, Princeton University Press, 2013, 520 pages. Reviewed by Eric P. Wenaas.   W. Bernard Carlson points…  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

In many respects, information and communication technologies (ICTs) pose new challenges to society. It is worth recognizing what ICTs represent…  Read More

This article is a summary report on the Eighth Workshop on the Social Implications of National Security Series. This year’s…  Read More

A set of technologies, loosely referred to as “artificial agents,” is becoming more pervasive and more powerful in the current…  Read More