Category: Societal Impact

The Australian trucking industry uses the Global Positioning System (GPS) as its main tracking system. A satellite dish connects the…  Read More

“Resistance is futile” is a catchphrase that has become synonymous with the adoption of new technologies [1]. The idea was…  Read More

Computers tell us what to do, every day, all the time. Is this a problem? I may get irritated when…  Read More

As 2015 marked the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Holocaust concentration camps, I downloaded an audio recording of…  Read More

At breakfast the next morning, Phi disclosed, “You know, Psi, I’m sick of this country. Let’s head on back home…  Read More

Blockchains are a new form of information technology that could have several important future applications. One is blockchain thinking, formulating…  Read More

According to urban scholars, industries, and governments [1], [2], future cities are only smart when investments in human and social…  Read More

Perhaps in the future every human individual will be considered disabled. Few might think this will happen, but if you…  Read More

Rick Sare is an American long-haul freight truck driver. When he is not at work, driving, he lives in Orlando,…  Read More

September 27, 2015 Dear Prof. Turkle, I agree with the premise in your Sept. 26, 2015 New York Times Opinion…  Read More

Figure 1. Concept map of IEEE Technology and Society Magazine article headings (March 2010–July 2015) generated using Leximancer.    …  Read More

I recently watched The Martian, a great advertisement for engineering. Back in the real world, I read an October 7,…  Read More

In the wake of crisis situations that can bring tragedy through the loss of human life, or the devastating destruction…  Read More

Surfing in the ocean. S. PILEGGI   This evening I sat down to reflect on some significant happenings in the…  Read More

At the 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS’15), SSIT was greatly honored with an opening address to…  Read More

Throughout history, technological advances have had significant effects on military command, control, and logistics. In turn, military establishments — and…  Read More

Slavery is the coercive and controlled use of another human. Contrary to the belief that the practice ended in the…  Read More

How much stuff do you carry on your keyring? Besides keys, I mean. Some minimalists like my wife carry car…  Read More

From a feminist perspective, author Donna Haraway makes inference to a type of teleology within technology itself that displaces the…  Read More

In his new book, The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower Mind, theoretical physicist…  Read More