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- Category: Blog Posts
- Science Communication, Digital Media, and the Human Voice
- Coming Soon – IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society
- When America Did Something, Not Because It Was Easy But Because It Was Hard
- The Uber “unicorn” stock crash: Cheat-code culture hits the wall at last, maybe
- Polling bias and American resistance to tech regulation
- SSIT Launches New Publication: Transactions on Technology and Society
- What’s left after “move fast and break things”? A solid approach to order
- Philip Koopman Receives IEEE Carl Barus Award
- Thank You, But No: Facebook’s “Portal” Is A Wild Misjudgment
- In Professionals We Trust—Or Do We?
- The Not-So-Silent Scream: Speculative Film Goes Full Dark
- Call for Papers – Special Issue of IEEE Technology and Magazine
- CALL FOR PAPERS – ISTAS 2018
- Cultural Perspectives of AI
- Monetizing vs Engineering – Motivating Change
- Why Did the AI Cross The Road: AI Rationale
- The Danger of Empathy for Robots
- Chris Wylie’s Frankenstein
- AI Future: Microsoft’s View
- AI Tipping Point
- RoI of Space Travel
- Profit vs. Society
- IoT National Security Issues
- When is AI really I?
- A Character Manifesto
- The Privacy of Shape
- Market Dominance and Privacy
- Where’s the Beef?
- What would you do with a few million DNA records?
- Social Media Health Impact
- Community Awareness
- Vintage Technology and Bit Rot
- Volcanoes can be a Blast
- Web AI Evolution
- Web Evolution — It’s a Jungle in Here
- The Privacy Slippery Slope
- Guerrilla Marketing and Individualization
- IEEE-SSIT Tackles Standards Development
- Pollution Kills
- Privacy and Gun Control
- Tech Evolution for Village Communities
- Which Came First: Technology or Society?
- An interesting thread
- A Not-So-Flat World – Friedman 2.0
- Call Me Irresistible (or Else)
- The Boundaries of Ethics
- Algorithm Problem
- AI Apocalypse (not)
- Predictive Fiction
- Your TV Might be Binge Watching You!
- Tele-Kiss … Hmmm
- Online Physical Attack
- Alexa Called as Witness?
- Who’s Monitoring the Baby Monitors?
- Big Brother/Big Data 2016
- Who Do You Want Listening In at Your Home?
- Ethics of Killing with Robots
- Eavesdropping Barbie?
- Who is Watching My Car — Car Monitoring
- Who is Driving Your Car? Car Hacking
- U.S. States Use Big Data to Catch Big Thieves
- Cyberwar and Social Impact
- Category: Entries
- Understanding and Strengthening Capacity for Society
- Brain Implants: Hype or Hope
- Letter to the Editor
- Letter to the Editor
- Microchipping People Is a “Bad Idea”
- Social Media Question on ESTA VISA Application – The Implications
- Post Tenebras, Lux: An Awakening
- Call for Papers — Special Issue of IEEE Technology and Society Magazine
- Past IEEE SSIT President Gerald L. Engel Dies at Age 76
- How to Govern Emerging Technologies
- President’s Message – Congratulations and Thanks
- Call for Papers
- Intellectual Humility
- Are We Enslaved by Technology?
- Robert A. (Bob) Dent Elected 2019-2020 IEEE-SSIT President
- Complacency is the New Normal
- Looking to the Future
- Is Your Algorithm Dangerous?
- Translational Technologists and Collective Creativity
- IEEE and Sustainable Development
- Introducing FutureProof, the IEEE SSIT Blog
- The Ultimate Black Box
- That Dragon, Cancer
- 500 Years Later: Doors and Disputations
- Digital Maturity: Perceiving the Digital-Panopticon
- WikiCyberLeaks
- We Are Not Spiritual Machines, We Are People
- Recommendations for Future Development of Artificial Agents
- Call for Papers – Robotics and Social Implications – Joint Special Issue
- T&S Magazine Wins STC Award
- IEEE Society on the Social Implications of Technology
- The Citizen Surveillance State
- Food Technology
- wait, 3-d printing organs?
- So where are the battle lines now?
- The digital divide – wait, there are people who don’t have broadband?
- You have to work pretty hard to make something private these days
- The future of 3-D Printing
- Category: Case Studies
- Category: Communication Technology
- Social Media and Disasters: Highlighting Some Wicked Problems
- Net Neutrality
- Tools for the Vision Impaired
- Speed Isn’t Enough: Usability and Adoption of an Optimized Alert Notification System
- ICTs and Small Holder Farming
- Geosocial Intelligence
- The Reinvention of Social Capital for Socio-Technical Systems
- Category: Environment
- Category: Ethics
- Operationalizing SSIT’s 5 Pillars: Pillar 2: Ethics, Human Values and Technology
- Algorithmic Bias: Addressing Growing Concerns
- Can We Program Ethics into AI?
- Getting from 1932 to 1945
- SSIT Past and Future
- Human by Design: An Ethical Framework for Human Augmentation
- Religion, Science, and Technology
- Military Applications of Invasive Brain Stimulation
- Improving Our “Engineering-Crazed” Image
- Sex Robot Matters: Slavery, the Prostituted, and the Rights of Machines
- Uber Is Built on Trust
- GM Ignition Switch Recall: Too Little Too Late?
- Is Ethics an Emerging Property?
- Crossing the Evolutionary Gap
- Smart Cities and Their Smart Decisions: Ethical Considerations
- Videoconferencing for Civil Commitment: Preserving Dignity
- Deterministic and Statistical Worlds
- Category: Health & Medical
- Katina Michaels discusses implantables at RadComms 2017
- Creating the Bionic Ear: The Central Role of Cybernetics
- A Review of Technology Advances for Assisting Paralyzed People
- Children and Technology: Parent Guidelines for Every Age
- MoodTrek–A New App to Improve Mental HealthCare
- Multimedia and Gaming Technologies for Telerehabilitation of Motor Disabilities
- Category: Human Impacts
- The Internet of Moving Things
- SSIT and Sustainable Development
- Planning for the Future
- Advanced Frugal Innovations
- Retreat to Move Forward : Alleviating Allostatic Load for the Brave
- The Next Generation of Socio-Technical Systems
- Intentionality: Value Apart from the Machine
- Operationalizing SSIT’s 5 Pillars
- Consumer Issues for Planning and Managing Digital Legacies
- Lessons from the Sea
- Human Microchipping, Past, Present, and … Future?
- Norbert Wiener: Odd Man Ahead
- A Conversation with Lazar Puhalo
- Google Glass and Highway Safety — Messy Choices
- “Reality” Covers it Well
- Category: Newsletter
- Category: Privacy & Security
- Category: Robotics
- Category: Societal Impact
- Category: Magazine Articles
- President’s Message – Operationalizing SSIT’s 5 Pillars
- Jeremy Pitt Appointed New Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Technology and Society Magazine
- LETTER: Licensing Engineering Professionals
- Regulating Spies in the Skies: Recommendations for Drone Rules in Canada
- Dear SSIT Members…
- Nanoelectronics Research Gaps and Recommendations
- The Next Macy Conference: A New Interdisciplinary Synthesis
- GPS in Interstate Trucking in Australia: Intelligence, Surveillance, or Compliance Tool?
- Coping with Machines
- Irish President Michael D. Higgins Delivers Opening Address at ISTAS 2015 in Dublin
- Marvin Minsky: 1927-2016
- Do We Just “Build Stuff”?
- Lost in Translation: Building a Common Language for Regulating Autonomous Weapons
- The Police Crisis of Visibility
- “I’ll Be Watching You”
- Starting a New Chapter
- Remotely Piloted Airborne Vehicles
- Influential Engineers: Where Do They Come From and Where Do They Go?
- Lost in Translation – Building a Common Language for Regulating Autonomous Weapons
- Category: Book Reviews
- BOOK REVIEW: The Revenge of Analog
- BOOK REVIEW: Algorithms of Oppression
- Book Review: A Maverick of Electrical Science
- BOOK REVIEW: A Maverick of Electrical Science
- BOOK REVIEW: The Camera Does the Rest: How Polaroid Changed Photography
- BOOK REVIEW: Drone Warfare
- BOOK REVIEW: Drowning in Information, Starving for Knowledge
- Refrigeration Nation
- Book Review: Computer Accessibility Rights
- BOOK REVIEW: Facist Pigs
- Not So Fast
- Pressed for Time
- The Truth about Tesla: The Myth of the Lone Genius in the History of Innovation
- Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
- The Circle
- Stealing Cars: Technology & Society from the Model T to the Gran Torino
- Reality Check: How Science Deniers Threaten Our Future
- Windows into the Soul: Surveillance and Society in an Age of High Technology
- How Not to Network a Nation
- Nanotechnology: Ethical and Social Implications
- Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
- Reclaiming Conversation
- Perfecting Sound
- America’s Assembly Line
- Rise of the Robots
- The Cybernetics Movement
- Military Robots: Mapping the Moral Landscape
- Digital Militarism
- FM Power to the People
- Probing the Sky
- Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Creating the Digital Revolution
- Faxed: The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine
- Alan Turing: The Enigma
- Category: Commentary
- Efficiency Versus Creativity as Organizing Principles of Socio-Technical Systems
- Information Technology in a City Enterprise
- The Unstoppable Changing of the Electricity Guard
- We Need to Talk about the Web
- Biometric Surveillance and the Right to Privacy
- Ikehara Collection: Norbert Wiener’s Japan Connections
- Thinking Machines in the Physical World
- Appropriate Technologies in the Globalized World: FAQs
- Channeling Digital Convergence in Education for Societal Benefit
- Snowden’s Lessons for Whistleblowers
- Category: Editorial & Opinion
- Being Human in the Days/Daze of Big Data
- Transparent Ownership of Mobility-as-a-Service
- Driverless Cars: Another Piece Of The Puzzle
- The Resilience of “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles”
- Congestion, Safety, Economic, and Environmental Challenges of Vehicle Automation in Transport Systems
- Driverless Cars Will Make Passenger Rail Obsolete
- Poem – Sea of Seeds
- Smart Cities through Smart Regulation
- The Democracy Lag
- Technology for Governance, Politics, and Democracy
- Facts, Policies, and Values– The Democratic Triad
- Assessing Artificial Intelligence for Humanity
- Odorveillance and the Ethics of Robotic Olfaction
- Virtual Reality: Ethical Challenges and Dangers
- Implantable Technology
- Making It Useful Even When It Seems to Be Useless
- Ethics of Robotic Deception
- From Usability to Exploitability
- From Good Ideas to Practical Solutions
- Defending Against Opaque Algorithmic Meddling in Free Elections
- Mundane Is the New Radical
- Publish or Impoverish
- One at a Time, and All at Once
- Robots and SocioEthical Implications
- Go “Get Chipped”
- Raising Teens to Live with Technology Responsibly
- Appointment of the Planet’s Policy Custodian
- Pervasive Technology: Aboriginal Communities and Oppression
- Engineers and Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
- Were We “Brave” @Braveconvos #Braveconversations?
- On Country
- Tragedy of the Digital Commons: Amplified Zombies
- Go “Get Chipped”
- The Dangers of Distributed Intelligence
- Black Mirror
- The Fleeting Opportunity to Create our Values by Design
- Speaking Out against Socially Destructive Technologies
- Going Fishing Matters
- Bots Trending Now: Disinformation and Calculated Manipulation of the Masses
- Regulation of Point of View Surveillance: A Review of Australian Law
- Drones Humanus
- Who Should Own In-the-Body Medical Data in the Age of eHealth?
- Deconstructing the Relationship Between Privacy and Security
- Technology for Collective Action
- Cyberwar: The What, When, Why, and How
- To Let Them Monitor or Not … Is that the Real Question?
- Big Data’s Big Future – But for Whom
- Ethics and …
- Excessive Conference Fees
- Are We Enslaved by Technology?
- Enslaved by Technology? Reflections on the IQ2 Debate on Big Ideas
- Enslaved
- Social and Economic Sustainability
- Social Implications of Biometric Registration: A Database Intended for Every Citizen in India
- Are Social Media Making Us Stupid?
- We Are Becoming Enslaved by Our Technology – Ruminations on the IQ2 Debate
- Father’s Day Algorithms or Malgorithms?
- Learning from Delusions
- ODE to…Digital Humility
- Why Did the 3D Revolution Fail?: The Present and Future of Stereoscopy
- Implantable Technologies in the Military Sector
- Brain Implants and Memory
- What if My Disability Will not be Relevant in the Future?
- Ethical Imperatives for Veteran Healthcare Resources
- Socio-Ethical Implications of Implantable Technologies in the Military Sector
- Technological Expeditions and Cognitive Indolence
- Norbert Wiener and the Counter-Tradition to the Dream of Mastery
- Reintroducing Wiener: Channeling Norbert in the 21st Century
- Ubiquitous Surveillance and Security
- 21CW: Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century
- Creating The Norbert Wiener Media Project
- Automatic Tyranny, Re-Theism ,and the Rise of the Reals
- Robots Don’t Pray
- Resistance Is Not Futile, nil desperandum
- Digitus Secundus: The Swipe
- Information Paradox : Drowning in Information, Starving for Knowledge
- Blockchain Thinking : The Brain as a Decentralized Autonomous Corporation
- Pharmaco-Electronics Emerge
- Shakespeare, Social Media, and Social Networks
- Technology and Change – Open Letter
- Reflecting on the Contribution of T&S Magazine to the IEEE
- Mental Health, Implantables, and Side Effects
- If Privacy Is Dead, What Can We Do Instead?
- Is Big Data the New “God” on Earth?
- Smart Toys that are the Stuff of Nightmares
- Crafting an Ethical Global Society
- Militarized Zones: The Thinking Machine, the Occupying Machine, the Intensive Machine
- RFID Implant Developments: Where Are We Headed and Why?
- Social Network Neutrality, Anyone?
- When Uber Cars Become Driverless: “They Won’t Need No Driver”
- An Ounce of Steel: Crucial Alignments
- Can We Trust For-Profit Corporations to Protect Our Privacy?
- The Paradox of the Uberveillance Equation
- Can Good Standards Propel Unethical Technologies?
- Updating a Declaration
- Home Is Where the AI Heart Is
- Mediating the Body: Wearable Tech and Disembodied Reality
- Unintended Consequences of Living with AI
- Help for Cybersex Addicts and Their Loved Ones
- Gone Fishing: Breaking with the Biometric Rhythm of Tech-Centricism
- Are Wearables Really Ready to Wear?
- Beyond Human: Lifelogging and Life Extension
- Personal Safety Devices Enable “Suicurity”
- Privacy Nightmare: When Baby Monitors Go Bad
- Pondering Effects of Video Games on Children
- Personal Rights in the Age of Omnipresent Cameras
- We’ve Got to Do Better
- Category: Fiction
- Category: Industry View
- Category: Interview
- Category: Last Word
- Category: Leading Edge
- Observing Crowd-Sourced Surveillance through the Eyes of the German Basic Law
- Ich liebe Dich UBER alles in der Welt (I love you more than anything else in the world)
- Unmanned Aircraft: The Rising Risk of Hostile Takeover
- Alternative Planning and Land Administration for Future Smart Cities
- Corporate Individualism–Changing the Face of Capitalism
- When Smart Is Not: Technology and Michio Kaku’s The Future of the Mind
- Category: Letters to the Editor
- Category: News and Notes
- Category: President's Message
- Category: Video & Podcasts
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- IEEE Global Humanitarian Conference (GHTC) 2019
- IEEE Africon 2019 (Accra, 25 - 27 September)
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