Slavery is the coercive and controlled use of another human. Contrary to the belief that the practice ended in the… Read More
Category: Societal Impact
GM Ignition Switch Recall: Too Little Too Late?
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Ethics, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
How much stuff do you carry on your keyring? Besides keys, I mean. Some minimalists like my wife carry car… Read More
RFID Implant Developments: Where Are We Headed and Why?
By Sharon Rose Bradley-Munn on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
From a feminist perspective, author Donna Haraway makes inference to a type of teleology within technology itself that displaces the… Read More
When Smart Is Not: Technology and Michio Kaku’s The Future of the Mind
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Leading Edge, Magazine Articles, Robotics, Societal Impact
In his new book, The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower Mind, theoretical physicist… Read More
Social Network Neutrality, Anyone?
By Guest Author on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
Having recently relocated to a country where I know very few people, I tried looking for a local branch of… Read More
Marvin Minsky: 1927-2016
By Guest Author on June 29th, 2017 in Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
Minsky (left) was keynote speaker at ISTAS 2013 held at the University of Toronto, Canada. (Right: Steve Mann, ISTAS ’13… Read More
When Uber Cars Become Driverless: “They Won’t Need No Driver”
By Katina Michael on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Magazine Articles, Robotics, Societal Impact
I have long pondered the issue of dehumanization through automation. I think the old adage: “no one is irreplaceable” now… Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Google Glass and Highway Safety — Messy Choices
By Robert Rosenberger on June 29th, 2017 in Human Impacts, Leading Edge, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
When Cecilia Abadie — a Google Glass “explorer” testing out the new device — received the first ever traffic ticket… Read More
We’ve Got to Do Better
By Katina Michael on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Social Implications of Technology, Societal Impact
Each year, thousands of film buffs gather at the Sundance International Film Festival in Park City, UT, U.S.A., to see… Read More
Nanotechnology: Ethical and Social Implications
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Book Reviews, Ethics, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
By Ahmed S. Khan. CRC Press (Taylor & Francis), 2012. Reviewed by Karl D. Stephan Anyone who doesn’t know… Read More