Tag: IoT

Register Now for SSIT April 2026 Webinar — Smart Cities, IoT, AI, and the Metaverse: An Integrated Vision for Future Urban Systems

By on March 29th, 2026 in Articles, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blog Posts, Environment, Ethics, Human Impacts, Social Implications of Technology, Societal Impact, Video & Podcasts

The rapid convergence of emerging digital technologies is reshaping the concept and implementation of Smart Cities. This work presents a comprehensive overview of how Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Digital Twins (DT), Extended Reality (XR), and the Metaverse collectively enable a new paradigm for urban transformation.

For Richer, for Poorer – The Digital Economy

By on December 27th, 2020 in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Ethics, Human Impacts, Interview, Magazine Articles, Social Implications of Technology, Societal Impact

Technological determinism is a myth; there are always underlying economic motivations for emergence of new technologies. The idea that technology leads development is not necessarily true, for example, con-sider AI. It has been a topic of inter-est to researchers for decades, but only recently has the funding caught up, matching the motivation and enabling the development of AI-ori-ented technologies to really take off.