A catalog of unintended, undesirable consequences of technology
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Social Media
Social media are interactive technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, interests, and other forms of expression through virtual communities and networks.
Social media is a decade-old technology whose consequences on economic, political, and social spheres are widely-explored. (e.g., market destabilization, polarization, and depression). -
Voice Assistants
An intelligent virtual assistant (IVA) or intelligent personal assistant (IPA) is a software agent that can perform tasks or services for an individual based on commands or questions. The term "chatbot" is sometimes used to refer to virtual assistants generally or specifically accessed by online chat.
Voice assistants are relatively new but are now an integral part of many people's lives, with consequences including privacy violations and dissemination of harmful content. -
Virtual Reality
Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that can be similar to or completely different from the real world. Applications of virtual reality include entertainment (particularly video games), education (such as medical or military training) and business (such as virtual meetings)
Virtual reality is still under active development, with scant widespread use.