The surveillance in public and private places, both physically and digitally, is increasing for different reasons. In this paper we intend to discuss surveillance and persuasive technology in an ethical perspective with an eye to its historical and cultural context. In section 1, we present some different tendencies of surveillance in society. In section 2, we elaborate on some important histor...

Numerous ethical and societal issues are related to the development of nanotechnology. Among them, the risk for privacy has long been discussed. Some people say that technology is neutral and that it does not really change the nature of problems, which are mainly political, while others state that its contemporary developments considerably amplify them; there are even persons who assert that it...

The operational challenges posed in enterprise networks present an appealing opportunity for automated orchestration by way of Software-Defined Networking (SDN). The primary challenge to SDN adoption in the enterprise is the deployment problem: How to deploy and operate a network consisting of both legacy and SDN switches, while benefiting from simplified management and enhanced flexibility of ...

Drawing upon Jacques Derrida’s notion of hauntology and the nascent field ghost criminology, this article explores spectrality Jeremy Bentham's panopticon. This frames never constructed building as an example ‘phantom architecture’. It can be seen both haunted haunting. Here, we use Beaumont’s ‘architectural parallax’ to examine that is ‘out-of-joint’. at once past, yet profoundly present, well...

Though almost completely unheralded in radiology, one of the most prophetic explorations of workplace supervision was provided by the French historian Michel Foucault. Ostensibly a sociological history, Foucault’s masterpiece outlines a path that radiology leaders must be prepared to follow if they intend to extract full value from their workers, in particular their clinical radiologists. Fouca...