Category: Social Implications of Technology

It appears that humanity’s great challenge for this century is to extend cooperative human values and institutions to autonomous technology…  Read More

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible. — Ray…  Read More

The desire to create a sentient Artificial Intelligence (Al) as complex as a human intelligence, or one that even surpasses…  Read More

Where does wearable technology exist? The question is more complex than it might first appear, when one considers the thin…  Read More

The Paradox of Technological Potential – Part II In November 2015, as editors, we started sorting through submissions for a…  Read More

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