June 2025 - Concordia University Centre for Creative Reuse (CUCCR) is a multistakeholder initiative housed within the university's Office of Sustainability. Here we… ... Read More
March 2025 - Just because one knows a general adage or theoretical truth does not entail the ability to put it into practice… ... Read More
December 2024 - The notion that engaging in defense research—at all—is essentially immoral is not an uncommon view. I want to pose the… ... Read More
September 2024 - Sustainable Global Development has been of great concern for decades, yet the world continues to grapple with this “wicked problem."… ... Read More
June 2024 - Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as a disruptive force. While AI-generated responses can initially seem impressive, LLM and AI… ... Read More
March 2024 - AI and data technologies’ ability to harness and interpret large and varied amounts of data shows the potential to overcome… ... Read More
December 2023 - The increasing digitalization of our social systems has led to the development of agentic computational artifacts. If socio-technical systems (STSs)… ... Read More
September 2023 - Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming people’s access to and attitudes toward knowledge. It is an extremely powerful technology,… ... Read More
June 2023 - The purpose of this special issue is to explore and address complex securitization-related challenges, from a broader perspective and across… ... Read More
March 2023 - We have developed a deep and special relationship with our devices. In many dimensions this relationship has been undeniably beneficial.… ... Read More
December 2022 - Contributive justice needs civic education to explain why people should get involved, civic participation to get people involved, and civic… ... Read More
September 2022 - Responsible innovation entails a particular mindset—a mindset that treats all innovation, tech innovation in particular, as inherently possessed of ethical… ... Read More
June 2022 - The asymmetry of power within the next-generation socio–technical systems, especially those involving AI, raises the prospect of an insidious threat… ... Read More
March 2022 - Developing, evaluating, and disseminating IT research prototypes for and with indigenous partners is both challenging and rewarding. In this issue… ... Read More
December 2021 - This special issue is dedicated to examining the governance of artificial intelligence (AI) through soft law. The contents grew out… ... Read More
September 2021 - Technology can be seen as a public good that can benefit all, through an open democratic system of governance, with… ... Read More
June 2021 - Understanding the societal trajectory induced by AI, and anticipating its directions so that we might apply it for achieving equity,… ... Read More
March 2021 - The rise of AI has fueled the debate on the potential contribution of new technologies to the creation of a… ... Read More
December 2020 - In The Need for Roots, Simone Weil sets out, firstly, a subjective/objective contrast between rights and obligations, and argues that… ... Read More
September 2020 - One of the consequences of Iron Triangles is oligarchy, and decisions being made in the interest of a ruling clique,… ... Read More
June 2020 - Digital technologies have created new opportunities to understand and manage global systemic risks, and drive the societal transformations needed to… ... Read More
March 2020 - Mega-platforms have, with the addition of psychology, combined lock-in and loyalty to create a grave consequence: digital dependence. ... Read More
December 2019 - Contemporary and emerging digital technologies are leading us to question the ways in which humans interact with machines and with… ... Read More
September 2019 - The ISTAS series of conferences poses potentially awkward questions that need to be addressed by designers, developers, regulators, and citizens,… ... Read More
June 2019 - The car itself has proved, in recent years, to have been a convenient vehicle (sic) or significant driver (sic) for… ... Read More
March 2019 - Innovative Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) already play an important role in e-governance and digital democracy, both at national and community levels. There is unprecedented… ... Read More
December 2018 - In the 15th century there was Wound Man, bleeding from his injuries. Today we have Wound Person leaking data from… ... Read More
September 2018 - How do we develop “good” technological concepts that solve a particular problem or fulfill a defined need? How can these designs be translated into… ... Read More
June 2018 - Social media is powerful. Communication is a formidable tool for empowerment. Citizens can use social media to communicate to influence… ... Read More
March 2018 - “it’s easy to get caught up in the idea that Artificial Intelligence (AI) [or robotics] will be one of two things: our destroyer… ... Read More
December 2017 - ISTAS 2016 was an important milestone for the SSIT community in India. It introduced topics such as ethics, society, and… ... Read More
September 2017 - The next generation of socio-technical system will be underpinned by the most advanced and potentially most "intelligent" technology so far… ... Read More
June 2017 - Norbert Wiener knew that smart machines and robots would contribute to improvements in human lives. He was also keenly aware… ... Read More
March 2017 - Advanced technologies that were once the stuff of science fiction have catapulted into the the military marketplace. We now have… ... Read More
December 2016 - How will the increasing penetration of artificial intelligence technologies into affect our lives? Unintended and/or unanticipated consequences of these technologies… ... Read More
September 2015 - In this issue of IEEE Technology and Society Magazine we acknowledge one of the quintessential multi-disciplinarians of our time, Dr. Norbert Wiener (1894–1964), the Father of Cybernetics.… ... Read More
Summer 2014 - Is more than human better? Evolving in ways that could improve our lives can only be a good thing. But… ... Read More
September 2014 - Developing socio-technical (eco) systems raises engineering challenges, but offers important new opportunities for successful collective action. One challenge lies in… ... Read More
December 2014 - Surely some good can come from it! The clock is ticking but that “thing” is pinging A voicemail Another email… ... Read More
March 2015 - As we strive to mainstream alternate energy sources and make them accessible in resource poor communities [4], how do we think beyond the… ... Read More
June 2015 - Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a therapy used to relieve the symptoms of movement disorders, specifically dystonia, essential tremor, and… ... Read More
September 2016 - Pervasive technologies have an intentionality, and they have inherent qualities that can be used positively or negatively. When we investigate… ... Read More
December 2015 - Blockchains are a new form of information technology that may have important future applications. Blockchain thinking formulates thinking as a… ... Read More
March 2016 - Personal data is a commodity, and there is great incentive for those profiting from that commodity to conceal the ways… ... Read More
June 2016 - Where are we headed? What trajectory are we on? Terra incognita: “Here be dragons.” In the final iconic scene in… ... Read More
Spring 2014 - A reinvention of social capital is crucial for the development of the next generation of socio-technical systems. This is necessary not only… ... Read More
Past Issues
IEEE Technology and Society Magazine - Past Issues 2014 - present
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June 2025
A Conversation on Waste and Local Action
Concordia University Centre for Creative Reuse (CUCCR) is a multistakeholder initiative housed within the university’s Office of Sustainability. Here we… Read More
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March 2025
Becoming Better Consumers of Visual Rhetoric
Just because one knows a general adage or theoretical truth does not entail the ability to put it into practice… Read More
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December 2024
Ethics of Defense?
The notion that engaging in defense research—at all—is essentially immoral is not an uncommon view. I want to pose the… Read More
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September 2024
Technology and Analytics for Global Development
Sustainable Global Development has been of great concern for decades, yet the world continues to grapple with this “wicked problem.”… Read More
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June 2024
Fixing AI With Interdisciplinary Approaches
Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as a disruptive force. While AI-generated responses can initially seem impressive, LLM and AI… Read More
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March 2024
Advancing Sustainable Development Goals With AI
AI and data technologies’ ability to harness and interpret large and varied amounts of data shows the potential to overcome… Read More
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December 2023
Artificial Intelligence: Rocket or Racket?
The increasing digitalization of our social systems has led to the development of agentic computational artifacts. If socio-technical systems (STSs)… Read More
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September 2023
Artificial Intelligence Everywhere
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming people’s access to and attitudes toward knowledge. It is an extremely powerful technology,… Read More
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June 2023
Securitization for Sustainability of People and Place
The purpose of this special issue is to explore and address complex securitization-related challenges, from a broader perspective and across… Read More
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March 2023
Toxic Technology
We have developed a deep and special relationship with our devices. In many dimensions this relationship has been undeniably beneficial…. Read More
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December 2022
Ethics and Education
Contributive justice needs civic education to explain why people should get involved, civic participation to get people involved, and civic… Read More
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March 2022
Decolonizing Technology
Developing, evaluating, and disseminating IT research prototypes for and with indigenous partners is both challenging and rewarding. In this issue… Read More
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June 2022
Modern Indentured Servitude
The asymmetry of power within the next-generation socio–technical systems, especially those involving AI, raises the prospect of an insidious threat… Read More
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September 2022
Technological Stewardship and Responsible Innovation
Responsible innovation entails a particular mindset—a mindset that treats all innovation, tech innovation in particular, as inherently possessed of ethical… Read More
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December 2021
Special Issue on Soft Law Governance of Artificial Intelligence
This special issue is dedicated to examining the governance of artificial intelligence (AI) through soft law. The contents grew out… Read More
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December 2019
Ethics and System Design
Contemporary and emerging digital technologies are leading us to question the ways in which humans interact with machines and with… Read More
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September 2021
Public Interest Technology
Technology can be seen as a public good that can benefit all, through an open democratic system of governance, with… Read More
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June 2021
Putting the AI into Building Back fAIrer
Understanding the societal trajectory induced by AI, and anticipating its directions so that we might apply it for achieving equity,… Read More
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March 2021
Artificial Intelligence for a Fair, Just, and Equitable World
The rise of AI has fueled the debate on the potential contribution of new technologies to the creation of a… Read More
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December 2020
The Need for Digital Roots
In The Need for Roots, Simone Weil sets out, firstly, a subjective/objective contrast between rights and obligations, and argues that… Read More
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