Engineering Ethics Blog

In the May issue of National Review, San DiegoState University psychologist Jean Twenge presents smoking-gun data that showsthe manifold harms to children and teenagers caused by smartphones,specifically social-media use on them.  Sheclaims, and I agree...

For nearly a decade, there have been isolated reportsof strange health problems in U. S. diplomatic and espionage personnelstationed in sensitive parts of the world such as Cuba, China, andVietnam.  Although there is no typicalcase, there are some commonalities...

Some accidents are simple:  two cars collide on a freeway, a tree fallson a jogger, lightning hits a golfer. Others require a chain of events, each of which is unlikely, and so aremuch rarer than the simple kind.  Thesequence of occurrences, each one...

Every time a new technology becomespopular, effects happen that nobody anticipates—not the designers, not thefirms selling the product, and not the users either.  A small but significant case in point washighlighted in a recent Associated Press piece...