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Steven John Thompson PhD

Cyber Phenom Rhetorician・Emerging Tech Ethicist

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2 Mar 2023

Church of the Angry Culture Warriors

by Steve | posted in: Culture, Politics, Society, Spiritual | 1

Do not let the sun go down on your anger.– Ephesians 4:28b On February 26, 2023, I attended church. The only one masked, the service was at a neighborhood Baptist church I had attended several years ago. A relatively humble … Continued

anger, human condition, ire, joy, spirit
1 Mar 2023

Society Is Not Free…

by Steve | posted in: Culture, Internet, Society, Technology | 0

…And Will Never Again Be Free We’ve lost a core human freedom: the right to freely move about in society. While it may seem like we are still quite able to go where we wish without disruption, due to mass … Continued

collapse, facialrecognition, invasive technologies, privacy, society, surveillance
16 Jan 2023

Forgetting Vivian Maier

by Steve | posted in: Culture, Photography, Society, Technology | 0

Vivian Maier is dead. And that’s our problem. The sometimes gorgeous biopic, Finding Vivian Maier, brings the mysterious and secretive creative genius who chose to live out her life in obscurity back to life, and throws her unwittingly under the … Continued

RightToBeForgotten
18 Dec 2022

The Twitter-Neuralink Connection Prospect

by Steve | posted in: Business, Culture, Internet, Media, Society, Technology | 0

As I’ve said from Day One, and the reason I left Twitter before Elon Musk took over, he bought Twitter for its database(s). That kind of massive account data archive on the most important people in the world, from Hollywood … Continued

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About Steve

Veteran newsman and former Ivy League professor. I taught at Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, UC Davis, Clemson, and others. On faculty at Savannah State University and University of Maryland Global Campus. I published pioneering research on Internet addiction in 1996, and have researched and written about Internet phenomena and emerging technologies since 1994. My media dependency work is ongoing, along with my research about scientists moving the Internet appliance into the human body. Read my books.

  • Global Issues and Ethical Considerations in Human Enhancement Technologies (2014)
  • Androids, Cyborgs, and Robots in Contemporary Culture and Society (2017)
  • Machine Law, Ethics, and Morality in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (2021)

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