by Heather Zeiger | Sep 28, 2016 | Announcements, Society, Technology
I have a new article at MercatorNet on Facebook’s Trending feature and the controversy that just won’t go away. First Facebook came under fire for allegedly removing conservative outlets from their Trending news list. Then people were surprised to learn...
by Heather Zeiger | May 3, 2016 | Announcements, Technology
I have a new article at MecatorNet on the rise of ransomware and hacking hospital networks. When I pitched this idea, I was thinking that this would be a medical data privacy issue, but as I was doing the research, I found that hospital hacking was not really about...
by Heather Zeiger | Apr 16, 2016 | Announcements, Ethics, Science, Society, Technology
I have a new article in Quartz, an online publication that hits a wide audience and is geared toward the global business community. Find my article here, “Pigs with human hearts, and other wild tales from the future of organ donation.” I had been...
by Heather Zeiger | Apr 5, 2016 | Announcements, Society, Technology
I have a new article at a new venue for me. MercatorNet is an international online publication that is dedicated to re-framing ethical and policy debates in terms of human dignity. My article is on bodyhackers, people who take a “hacker’s approach”...
by Heather Zeiger | Mar 10, 2016 | Ethics, Technology
In grad school I wrote a paper about Asimov’s three laws of robotics and whether they were analogous to an ethical system called divine command theory. I thought I was being clever since robots are programmed to do certain things, and a “good” robot does what it is...
by Heather Zeiger | Feb 10, 2016 | Announcements, Ethics, Human Dignity, Science, Society, Technology
I have a new article at The Stream on the U.S.’s Institute of Medicine’s recommendation that the FDA approve mitochondrial transfer, or what is being called “three-parent IVF” in the media. Read about it here.
