Throughout history, technological advances have had significant effects on military command, control, and logistics. In turn, military establishments — and… 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
Uber isn’t in the taxi business. It’s not really in the dispatch business, or even in the tech business. It’s… Read More
The automotive industry has furnished the field of engineering ethics with more than one “paradigm” case that generations of budding… 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
Having recently relocated to a country where I know very few people, I tried looking for a local branch of… Read More
Minsky (left) was keynote speaker at ISTAS 2013 held at the University of Toronto, Canada. (Right: Steve Mann, ISTAS ’13… Read More
I have long pondered the issue of dehumanization through automation. I think the old adage: “no one is irreplaceable” now… Read More
Every day as engineers and technologists we go to work teaching, developing, building, implementing, maintaining technology. Do we care about… Read More
Perfecting Sound Forever-An Aural History of Recorded Music. By Greg Milner. New York, NY: Faber and Faber, Inc., 2009, 416… Read More
By David E. Nye. Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press, 2013, 338 pages Reviewed by David Wunsch If I asked you to… Read More
Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future. By Martin Ford. Basic Books, 2015, 224 pp…. Read More
The Cybernetics Moment, Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age. By Ronald R. Kline. Johns Hopkins University Press,… Read More
By Jai Galliott. Surrey, U.K.: Ashgate, 2015, 266 pp. Reviewed by Tim McFarland Perhaps the most well-known, and controversial, development… Read More
Digital Militarism: Israel’s Occupation in the Social Media Age. By Adi Kuntsman and Rebecca L. Stein. Stanford University Press, 2015,$21.95… Read More