NDLI: Social Implications of Technology: The Past, the Present, and the Future

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Author	Stephan, K.D. Michael, K. Michael, M.G. Jacob, L. Anesta, E.P.
Copyright Year	1963
Abstract	The social implications of a wide variety of technologies are the subject matter of the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT). This paper reviews the SSIT's contributions since the Society's founding in 1982, and surveys the outlook for certain key technologies that may have significant social impacts in the future. Military and security technologies, always of significant interest to SSIT, may become more autonomous with less human intervention, and this may have both good and bad consequences. We examine some current trends such as mobile, wearable, and pervasive computing, and find both dangers and opportunities in these trends. We foresee major social implications in the increasing variety and sophistication of implant technologies, leading to cyborgs and human-machine hybrids. The possibility that the human mind may be simulated in and transferred to hardware may lead to a transhumanist future in which humanity redesigns itself: technology would become society.
Sponsorship	IEEE Publication
Starting Page	1752
Ending Page	1781
Page Count	30
File Size	2396453
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00189219
Volume Number	100
Issue Number	Special Centennial Issue
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2012-05-13
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Technology forecasting Social implications of technology History Social factors Human factors Überveillance Corporate activities engineering education ethics future of technology history social implications of technology sociotechnical systems
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Science Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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