People in the world’s developed nations live in a postindustrial era, working mainly in service or knowledge industries. Manufacturers increasingly rely on sensors, robots, artificial intelligence, ...

During the Information Age, many companies pulled together data from public and private sources and made it available to interested parties. They were called information services, databases, or ...

Well before the rise of Google, Amazon, Facebook, and other tech behemoths, philosopher Luciano Floridi contemplated the ethical and conceptual implications of the information age, producing work that ...

U.S. Navy Chief Sonar Technician (Surface) Andrew Mullen, right, provides instructions in the combat information center aboard the destroyer Decatur. (MC2 David Negron/U.S. Navy) SAN DIEGO — The ...

His work on complex systems and responsive technologies helped lay the groundwork for later work on artificial intelligence. By Clay Risen Warren Brodey, who used his background as a psychiatrist to ...

Nicholas P. Sullivan is a member of the national Local Catch Network. People in the world’s developed nations live in a post-industrial era, working mainly in service or knowledge industries.