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The Social Impact Of National Security Technologies: Epassports, E911 And Mobile Alerts, Holly Tootell
The Social Impact Of National Security Technologies: Epassports, E911 And Mobile Alerts, Holly Tootell
Faculty of Informatics - Papers (Archive)
This paper explores the adoption of emerging technologies for the purposes of national security. The three technologies chosen were ePassports, E911 and mobile alerts. The study uses a content analysis methodology drawing on popular media documentation to extract the major social and technological impacts of the technologies on citizens as they were reported. The find i ngs of the study indicate that reactions to the three technologies differed. ePassports were considered vastly different to E911 and mobile alerting predominantly because they were seen to be a controlling technology, whereas E911 and mobile alerting were viewed to be about safety and …
National Security And The Misology-Misanthropy Paradox Of Technology, George M. Mickhail
National Security And The Misology-Misanthropy Paradox Of Technology, George M. Mickhail
Faculty of Informatics - Papers (Archive)
The evolution of computing did not only result in the disengagement of thepopulace from its technological complexity, but also their submission to thedivine ability of 'scientists', who understand the mathematical complexityof information technologies. Socrates argued that both 'misanthropy' and'misology' stem from 'faith' placed in unreliable people and unsoundarguments. Such misplaced faith in surveillance technologies and theirprotractors, for example, often results in disengagement from debate, whichto Socrates was the antithesis to truth and wisdom. This paper explores howsociety is opting out of debate through the machinations of a neoconservativecredo that purports reason. Under the guise of freedom and democracy, suchdogma often …