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Past Issues
IEEE Technology and Society Magazine - Past Issues 2014 - present
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March 2020
Robots and Humans: Leveling Up or Leveling Down?
Mega-platforms have, with the addition of psychology, combined lock-in and loyalty to create a grave consequence: digital dependence.
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June 2020
AI and Climate Change
Digital technologies have created new opportunities to understand and manage global systemic risks, and drive the societal transformations needed to… Read More
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September 2020
Iron Triangles and Techno-Feudalism
One of the consequences of Iron Triangles is oligarchy, and decisions being made in the interest of a ruling clique,… Read More
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September 2019
Technology, Ethics, and Policy
The ISTAS series of conferences poses potentially awkward questions that need to be addressed by designers, developers, regulators, and citizens,… Read More
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March 2019
Technology for Governance, Politics, and Democracy
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
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December 2018
Wound Person Takes Pascal's Wager
In the 15th century there was Wound Man, bleeding from his injuries. Today we have Wound Person leaking data from… Read More
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December 2016
Unintended Consequences of Technology
How will the increasing penetration of artificial intelligence technologies into affect our lives? Unintended and/or unanticipated consequences of these technologies… Read More
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June 2019
Driverless Cars: Going Off the Rails?
The car itself has proved, in recent years, to have been a convenient vehicle (sic) or significant driver (sic) for… Read More
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September 2016
Technology, Culture, and Ethics
Pervasive technologies have an intentionality, and they have inherent qualities that can be used positively or negatively. When we investigate… 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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March 2018
Social Implications of Robotics and AI
“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
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June 2018
Special Section: Social Media in the Middle East
Social media is powerful. Communication is a formidable tool for empowerment. Citizens can use social media to communicate to influence… Read More
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September 2018
Special Issue on ISTAS 2017 - From Good Ideas to Practical Solutions
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
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March 2017
Special Issue on Military Use of Implantable Technologies
Advanced technologies that were once the stuff of science fiction have catapulted into the the military marketplace. We now have… Read More
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June 2017
Special Issue: Thinking Machines in the Physical World - IEEE 2016 Conference on Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century
Norbert Wiener knew that smart machines and robots would contribute to improvements in human lives. He was also keenly aware… Read More
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September 2017
Next Generation Socio-Technical Systems
The next generation of socio-technical system will be underpinned by the most advanced and potentially most “intelligent” technology so far… Read More
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December 2017
ISTAS 2016 - Disruptive Technologies, Ethics, and Global Development
ISTAS 2016 was an important milestone for the SSIT community in India. It introduced topics such as ethics, society, and… Read More
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June 2016
Rise of the Robots: Technology and Social Disruption
Where are we headed? What trajectory are we on? Terra incognita: “Here be dragons.” In the final iconic scene in… Read More
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March 2016
Hidden Conditions
Personal data is a commodity, and there is great incentive for those profiting from that commodity to conceal the ways… Read More
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December 2015
Blockchains
Blockchains are a new form of information technology that may have important future applications. Blockchain thinking formulates thinking as a… Read More