With the release of Amazon Echo Show 2, and the Facebook Portal, live video cameras are poised to become a bigger part of daily life in our own homes. Do these video technologies create a…
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The electronic version of my new book Technology and Inequality: Concentrated Wealth in a Digital World, published by Palgrave Macmillan, is now available. The hardback should be available in late July 2017 on Amazon and…
The Steve Jobs story has something for everyone. He was a revolutionary who embodied the American Dream; design was his weapon. He was a self-made man whose success came from building products, not by gaming…
Strange coincidence: The two technologies that influenced my life the most were born on the same day. As me. On August 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb attack was unleashed on Hiroshima. Nuclear weaponry, and…
Thanks to social media, any clear separation we might have once had between technologies of intimacy, and technologies of broadcast, is gone. Lured at first by the promise of exclusivity, then by the efficient management…
Watson’s easy victory against the best humanoid Jeopardy! players in the world has prompted completely opposing visions of the future. One version is Terminator around the corner: self-aware machines enslaving the human race even sooner…
I’m happy and honored to be joining the editorial board of the Journal of Information Technology, starting this month. Not only is JIT one of the top journals in Information Systems, according to the AIS…
When I started creating my new ‘Papers‘ page, I had a dream of making all my academic work easily accessible–a ‘live CV’ with each paper just one click away. I didn’t realize how much of…
The dynamic team of Steve Sawyer, Julie Rennecker, and myself pulled off another successful meeting of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 9.1, immediately after the ICIS 2009 conference in Phoenix. We…
Thanks to a recent discussion on slashdot, I learned that the entire editorial boards from at least three journals have resigned to start new journals that are open, or lower cost: Journal of Algorithms Topology…