Social implications of technology: The past, the present, and the future

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 100, Issue SPL CONTENT, 2012, Pages 1752-1781

  Stephan, Karl D ^a   Michael, Katina ^b   Michael, M G ^b   Jacob, Laura ^c   Anesta, Emily P ^d  

^a Texas State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^c Factset Research Systems   (United States)

^d MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

berveillance; Corporate activities; engineering education; ethics; future of technology; history; social implications of technology; sociotechnical systems

Indexed keywords

HISTORY; SOCIAL ASPECTS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

BERVEILLANCE; CORPORATE ACTIVITIES; ETHICS; SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGIES; SOCIOTECHNICAL SYSTEMS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 84861202108     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2012.2189919     Document Type: Conference Paper

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