The Unintended Consequences of Technology
by The Daily Eye Team March 3 2017, 2:29 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 30 secsAn article of mine on the “Technologies of Taste” has just come out in Technology & Society, a publication of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). It’s a fascinating special issue exploring the “Unintended Consequences of Technology.” As the guest editor, Ramona Pringle explained it to me that the focus wasn’t on “the dark side” of tech, but rather the complicated nature of our increasingly connected lives. The call for papers, however, emphasized the danger of not carefully examining our relationship to new technology: