Sentences with phrase «technology on society»

One of the issues to which a major part of the activities of psychologists and sociologists has been allocated is the impact of technology on society and people's life [3].

Looks at the future with an eye on understanding the global impact of technology on society, business and government.

Cornell and Trecartin have been working together for years, so this year's New Museum Triennial's concept is a product of the passion they share toward the effects of digital technology on society and psychology.

Their work is an ongoing investigation into the impact of technology on society and the rhetoric of politics and visual culture in the media.

Newly commissioned works by Neïl Beloufa, Jana Euler, Matthew Angelo Harrison, Margaret Honda, and Yuri Pattison, conclude the exhibition with current reflections on our digital age and the impact of technology on society.

Their new show, «Detected Reality,» examines the impact of technology on society, presenting a matrix environment where humans are meant to see through the viewpoint of the machine.

In September - October 2015, the following publications featured the book in articles about the effects of digital technology on society: — Sherry Turkle's op - ed in the New York Times about the psychological results of omnipresent digital devices cites -LSB-...]

In September - October 2015, the following publications featured the book in articles about the effects of digital technology on society:

On March 25, Professor Chris Dede and EDUCAUSE President and CEO Diana Oblinger discussed how the digital ecosystem will suit Harvard's future and the potential consequences of higher education technology on society.

She also reported on the impact of emerging technology on society and geopolitics.

focused public attention on important potential impacts of science and technology on society by their responsible participation in public policy debates; or

The IET is a leading source of impartial authoritative advice on the impact of engineering and technology on society.

«A Boom with a View,» Erin Griffith's long - running column on the impact of technology on society, received an honorable mention in the Commentary / Opinion category for medium - sized publications.

Not exact matches

He will first cite Microsoft's mission to «empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more» and acknowledge his own beginnings in India as a sign of the power of technology to democratize society.

For example, technologies developed by companies such as YouTube and Volkswagen certainly have, and continue to have, a profound impact on society.

Because while the ideas are grand, and the technology impressive, I'm concerned that we as a society simply aren't ready for always - on computers that pump information as close to our brains as possible.

The book, part of a series of primers from the publisher on complex issues deemed impactful to society, is what it sounds like from its title: An overview of what people are talking about when they talk about artificial intelligence and concerns stemming from proliferation of technology that falls into the category.

Technology continues to have profound impacts on society and industry and will continue to capture an increased portion of the total economic pie.

Like any of number of fictional futures, from Metropolis to Altered Carbon, it is a society where the wealthy in live in glistening towers in the clouds, surrounded by technologies of luxury and convenience, looking down on an underclass that can not afford basic necessities.

But a few key words and phrases from Stocky's statement stand out, as Zeynep Tufekci, a University of North Carolina professor who often writes about technology and society, highlighted on Twitter Tuesday.

«It is clear that technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning will have a huge impact on future mobility and society at large.

«We believe there is an opportunity to act in the public interest and make a meaningful contribution to society by building sustainable technology that respects users and does not rely on the commoditization of personal data,» Acton wrote.

Speaking as part of a panel on how decentralized technology will impact our society, the creator of Ethereum shared his particular insight into a related topic: the current token landscape.

In his work at Altimeter Group, Solis studies the effects of disruptive technology on business and society.

It's time to think about the bigger impact of technology on the fabric of society, and not just your personal case.

Can we expect that that new technology will substitute for all these centuries of creating good practices that, in a way, generates the trust that society has on the currency we know today?

Formerly a senior staff writer at Wired, he has been writing about the technology industry and its impact on society for nearly 20 years.

«Autonomous vehicle technologies will have a tremendous impact on society in terms of safety, mobility and security,» Chao said in an address at the Consumer Electronics Show on Wednesday in Las Vegas.

He's the author of nine books on our economy and society including a Radically Beneficial World Automation Technology and Creating Jobs for All..

Modern American society places a heavy premium on technology, which favors the young.

«It's high - tech eugenics,» said Marcy Darnovsky, director of the Center for Genetics and Society, a Berkeley, Calif. nonprofit focused on reproductive technologies.

The universe evolves, galaxies evolve, organisms evolve, societies evolve, cultures evolve, technology evolves, languages evolve, and so on and so forth.

«The event, the fourth of its kind, seeks to raise global awareness and create a forum for collaboration around the wide array of powerful and promising cell therapies, gene therapies, and immunotherapies emerging from medical institutions around the world, as well as the impact new technology will have on humanity and society,» a press release by the Cure Foundation explains (h / t Christian Post).

Biblical literalism is a powerful force today; it tends to imprison people in attitudes that were suitable enough when science and technology were little dreamt of but which fail to illuminate a society in which, for instance, it is desirable, because of the effects of modern hygiene on death rates, for women to bear, on the average, perhaps a third as many infants as were appropriate two or three thousand or even two hundred years ago, a society in which war might mean something like the end of the species, or at least vastly closer to that than any war of the past could be.

As society relies more and more heavily on science and technology on ever more fundamental levels, it becomes increasingly more important that all citizens receive a proper grounding in science and the scientific method.

The development of modern machine technology in industrial society has wrought profound changes in the relationship between work and leisure, with correspondingly far - reaching effects on the values of civilization.

Similarly, Charles Birch of Sydney spoke on «Creation, Technology and Human Survival» and told the Assembly that our goal must be a just and sustainable society; and this demands a fundamental change of heart and mind about humankind's relation to nature.

Several highly publicized cases in the late 1980s (such as access to computer systems in Canada from New York or access to NATO information systems in Norway from the USA) have shown that «the prevention of computer crime is of great significance as business, administration and society depend to a high degree on the efficiency and security of modern information technology».

Among some of the earlier signals that pointed at the problem of technology - vulnerability is the 1978 report by the Swedish Ministry of Defense Committee on the Vulnerability of Computer Systems (SARK) «The Vulnerability of Computerized Society».

Cf. Manfred Stanley, «The Technicist Projection,» Harvard University Program on Technology and Society (Fifth Annual Report, 1968 - 69), pp. 14 - 17.

Harvard University Program on Technology and Society (Reprint No. 3, 1967).

Technology produces many of the changes in society, but the effect of those changes depends on many things other than technoloTechnology produces many of the changes in society, but the effect of those changes depends on many things other than technologytechnology itself.

KC: Modernity's influence on traditional societies involves the emergence of the nation - state with secularization brought about by western technology and science.

«We are witnessing a massive infusion of new technology into industry, a technology based on computers and micro-electronics,» says Harley Shaiken, an MIT expert on technology and its impact on society.

The historical impact of the printing press on religion shows how complex the impacts of new technologies in society really are.

It is a matter of 1) coming into a proper relationship to our technologies, and 2) understanding how our media have a powerful shaping force on our communities, our cultures, our societies, and our selves.

The «new economy» spurred on by the new technology is still in a period of transition just as our society is groaning though a movement away from modernity and modern rationality into postmodernity and a postmodern rationality signified by its offspring technology that will continue to give it shape.

«People will be inclined to give their children those skills and traits that align with their own temperaments and lifestyles,» writes Gregory Stock, an apostle of human genetic engineering who heads the program on Medicine, Technology and Society at UCLA.

While it may very well be true that Heidegger sounds as if he is arguing for a pre-modern, pre-mechanized society, perhaps leaning toward a Luddite perspective, and while it also may appear that McLuhan is arguing for the continued evolution of technology that will enhance society, perhaps smacking of a full - blown techophilism, both theorists come together on the primary assertion that they make - technology has a profound and invisible shaping force on our epistemic values, perceptions of reality and truth, and cultural values and norms.

I was present at the birth of the phrase the «ecologically sustainable society» at a conference in Bucharest organized by the World Council of Churches in 1974 on Science and Technology and Human Development (World Council of Churches 1974).