By David E. Nye. Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press, 2013, 338 pages Reviewed by David Wunsch If I asked you to… Read More
Category: Social Implications of Technology
Rise of the Robots
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Book Reviews, Magazine Articles, Robotics, Societal Impact
Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future. By Martin Ford. Basic Books, 2015, 224 pp…. Read More
The Cybernetics Movement
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Book Reviews, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
The Cybernetics Moment, Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age. By Ronald R. Kline. Johns Hopkins University Press,… Read More
Military Robots: Mapping the Moral Landscape
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Book Reviews, Magazine Articles, Robotics, Societal Impact
By Jai Galliott. Surrey, U.K.: Ashgate, 2015, 266 pp. Reviewed by Tim McFarland Perhaps the most well-known, and controversial, development… Read More
Digital Militarism
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Book Reviews, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
Digital Militarism: Israel’s Occupation in the Social Media Age. By Adi Kuntsman and Rebecca L. Stein. Stanford University Press, 2015,$21.95… Read More
FM Power to the People
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Book Reviews, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
Low Power to the People: Pirates, Protest, and Politics in FM Radio Activism. By Christina Dunbar-Hester. Cambridge, MA: M.I.T., Nov…. Read More
Probing the Sky
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Book Reviews, Communication Technology, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
Probing the Sky with Radio Waves: From Wireless Technology to the Development of Atmospheric Science. By Chen-Pang Yeang. Chicago, IL:… Read More
Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Creating the Digital Revolution
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Book Reviews, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution. By Walter Isaacson. Simon and Schuster,… Read More
Faxed: The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Book Reviews, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
By Jonathan Coopersmith, Johns Hopkins University Press. 320 pages, 2015 Reviewed by Erik L. Stayton I have never had… Read More
Deterministic and Statistical Worlds
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Ethics, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, President's Message
Technologists are problem solvers. We work out answers to questions (sometimes simple, sometimes difficult), and apply these to the world…. Read More
Alan Turing: The Enigma
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Book Reviews, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game. By Andrew Hodges. Updated Edition. Princeton Univ. Press, 2014. Reviewed by… Read More
A Not-So-Flat World – Friedman 2.0
By Jim Isaak on June 7th, 2017 in Articles, Human Impacts, Societal Impact
I’m preparing a course for this Fall on the future, and pursuing a number of related books that will no… Read More
Call Me Irresistible (or Else)
By Jim Isaak on May 5th, 2017 in Articles, Health & Medical
This new book, Irresistible: the Rise of Addictive Technology, points to a challenge that may be hitting a tipping point:… Read More
The Boundaries of Ethics
By Jim Isaak on April 26th, 2017 in Articles, Case Studies, Ethics
The U.S. government recently announced sanctions targeting Syrian scientists (and no doubt engineers; newspapers are not clear on the differences)…. Read More
IEEE SSIT Newsletter – April 2017
By ieeessit on April 17th, 2017 in Newsletter
In this issue: Committees-Introductions and Volunteer Opportunities, Imminent Deadlines for Journal and Conference Call for Papers, Remembering Virginia Mary Edgerton… Read More
Algorithm Problem
By Jim Isaak on April 17th, 2017 in Articles, Ethics, Societal Impact
United Airlines has been having it’s problems since recently ejecting a passenger to facilitate crew members getting to their next… Read More
AI Apocalypse (not)
By Jim Isaak on April 11th, 2017 in Articles, Ethics, Societal Impact
Presumably we will reach a tipping point when Intelligent Devices surpass humans in many key areas, quite possibly without our… Read More
IEEE SSIT Newsletter – March 2017
By ieeessit on March 17th, 2017 in Newsletter
In this issue: New Student Branch, Volunteer Opportunities and Introductions, Ethical Dilemma Publication Opportunity, CFPs, Conferences, IEEE Foundation Grant for… Read More
Predictive Fiction
By Jim Isaak on February 21st, 2017 in Articles, Environment
A recent anthology of “climate fiction,” Loosed Upon the World, projects climate change forward some years into dystopian scenarios. The editor,… Read More
Call for Papers – Robotics and Social Implications – Joint Special Issue
By terribookman on February 16th, 2017 in Social Implications of Technology
IEEE Technology and Society Magazine and IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine are pleased to announce a Joint Special Issue for March 2018. Due… Read More